13 January 2016
Featured Work: Live Wild with HuskyFox Brand Identity
12 January 2016
6 Collaborative Tools to Increase Visual Communication and Productivity
Design is a collaborative process and very rare do we as designers create alone. For most of us who are lucky to work in a supportive and a creative environment, it is highly productive to be able to gather feedback.
As important as the tools we use to create, today we’ll be looking at some awesome tools to help simplify the flow of gathering information. If you or your team are still in the ages of manually highlighting details using Powerpoint slides or (kill me) Word, it’s best if you started exploring the list below.
Red Pen
This might be the fastest way to get feedback on your designs. As a super basic Web app that lets you upload a file and share it with clients and team members, it’s main feature is that it’s extremely light-weight (zero setup time). If you’re like me and hate emailing large files back and forth, you’ll want to check out Red Pen.
Hightail
Share files, get feedback and take projects from concept to completion, Hightail allows creative collaboration that leaves behind email. It unites everyone in your team—from creator to client, PM to CMO—in one intuitive platform. The Lite version which allows 5 spaces is Free.
Codesign
This web app helps designers keep the feedback process clean, fast and organized. It’s a minimal project management for web-development and graphical-design that requires no prototyping. Codesign’s primary focus is to discuss and to point out fixes to be done. To put it simple, Codesign is “Invision on diet” — keeping the app as simple, as natural and as “fit” with features as possible.
Kivo
The simplest way to work with someone else on a file. Kivo is a collaboration layer that sits on top of existing storage platforms and allows multiple people to edit a file at the same time regardless of file type or storage layer.
Wake
As a private space to share and discuss design work with your team, Wake works on the web, desktop and mobile platform. It’s super easy for designers to share, enabling a more open and transparent design process. You can also shoot photos of analog work with the iPhone app and easily collaborate if you’re working remotely.
Relay.io
If your design team uses Slack – the a cloud-based messaging app/collaboration tool, you can thank the stars for Relay. Synced with Slack, you can use Relay to capture screens directly from Adobe CC, Sketch, Chrome and share work in progress while discussing design with your team.
So there you have it guys, let us know in the comments which tool you and your team uses and if I’m missing out on more resources!
11 January 2016
Featured Work: A series of bacteria by Vladimir Stankovic
Today’s featured work comes from Vladimir Stankovic from the third largest city in Denmark called Odense. His sketches are gorgeous, cute, and disgusting!
Vladimir has created a series of bacteria characters for an animated TV commercial about the friendly probiotic called “Biosporin”. Commissioned by a Ukrainian creative advertisement agency FEDORIV, the series is about the probiotic and its fight against bad bacteria.
Vlad’s characters are brought to life from illustration to save the day! For more on this awesome series and Vlad’s work, head over to his Behance portfolio after the jump!
6 January 2016
Freebie: 30 Apple Watch Wireframing UI screens & elements
Today’s daily freebie comes from UXPin, the platform that helps teams in their daily work. Today, we’ve got a sweet pack of wireframes of the Apple watch.
Complete in Illustrator, Photoshop and Sketch format, this beautiful, low fidelity wireframe kit contains over 30 handcrafted elements of Apple’s flagship wearable tech. It also comes in two sizes – 340 x 272px and 390 x 312px. This makes it super easy for a designer to create nifty flows and concepts for an app.
2016 is predicted to be the year of wearables and this is the best time to get on the bandwagon if you haven’t already done so. Head over to UXPin and check out their cool platform or grab this freebie from their site after the jump!
5 January 2016
Featured Photographer: David Sykes Shooting Still Life
Today’s featured photographer is London based-still life photographer David Sykes.
Utilizing a palette of colorful pastels and often playful approach, David’s style is truly unique, making his images some of the most recognizable in the industry.
As a busy advertising photographer, David’s racked up an impressive list of clients while winning a few coveted awards.
We really enjoy and appreciate his work especially with food. He’s framing and setup technique gives an aesthetic that is truly compelling.
Here’s just a few selected pieces that we love, for anyone who’s interested in still life photography, do check out David’s full portfolio (link below) for some incredible and inspiring images.
4 January 2016
Daily Freebie: Idolatra Font by Felipe Moreno Guajardo
Today’s daily freebie comes from the personal portfolio of Felipe Moreno Guajardo. A graphic designer from Tenerife, Canary Islands, Felipe brings us an awesome bunch of letters.
From Felipe’s portfolio, Duttyfree – “Idolatra is a capital group of letters inspired from Polynesian culture and tiki style from the 40’s and 50’s with a modern touch, more solid and minimalistic.”
Great for headlines, slogans, logos, display text and more, you can grab this awesome font in its “regular” size now for personal and commercial use! Download link is available on Felipe’s site after the jump!
1 January 2016
Best Collection of CSS3, jQuery & HTML5 Built Search Form Tutorials
The search field is also referred as the search box and search bar. Having this on the website is pivotal from the business perspectives.
Hence, there should be more attention paid to that particular field while designing or adding to the site. Imagining a website without search bar means an incomplete process because this works as a key and its absence may frustrate the visitors while finding anything from that place.
Let us give you an example to show the importance of search field/box/bar
Suppose, there is a website loaded with content and the visitor falls down here to find some specific things. In this situation, how will he find the desired information without any search box.
In this circumstance, should he move to the data archives or you will provide an easy software to fulfill this need on your site that is your question and you need to find out the right solution.
Thanks to the available broad range of search box tutorials that have made it easy by the time. Thus, regardless of wasting your precious time, we thought to come up with the best tutorial collection directly that actually you are looking for.
So, go through the following well-noted search form tutorials and take inspiration from them to make your own site powerful.
Rocking & Rolling jQuery Search Form With Rounded Menu
The commendable utilization of scaling and rotating jQuery powered patches. Taking aspiration from this tutorial, you need to build a menu with small icons and once you hover over them, you will get automatically rotate. Also, you should have the capability of expanding menu just to unveil the integrated items.
CSS3 Search Bar Influenced by Apple
Are you the Apple fan and want to create something look like this even remotely, then you’re at the right place as we have listed Apple-esque search bar in this tutorial built with CSS3. This should be able to expand especially when in an active situation.
Simple Search Form Created Using jQuery/CSS3 & PSD
When it comes to design, then you will experience professional look with the simplicity which is actually a plus point of its popularity. This comprises clean jQuery validation along with PSD and pop appearance until the search field is filled.
Search Box Inspired By Google
This customized search box built with HTML5, AJAX, CSS3 and jQuery looks simple but eye-catching, that is why, many webmasters prefer to keep it on their sites. This owns the ability to search individually from images, videos, and Google.
Deconstructed & Expandable Search Box
One nice thing that we can observe here is; changing search input. You can put it via sidebar into the header sector using some effects, wherein you need to click in order to expand the section of input. Expanding it seems to be easy if you apply an effective trick to make it worthy in terms of performance.
Search Box with Drop Down Menu in HTML & CSS3
This tutorial will help you develop the completely flat styled navigation in the search field or box along with the facility of drop down menu that came from Square UI as you can see below in the image. Another impressive example of the search box with an appealing look.
CSS3 Search Field
It’s a fact that CSS3 is brilliant in the account of the web design. Therefore, we find the majority of CSS3 powered sites after surfing the web. Undoubtedly, it caters plenty of functions such as animation, shadow, transitions, and many more required to develop enticing, simple and powerful search form.
Realistic Soft CSS Search Field Form
Here, you will know how to build search box with realistic shadow visual considering or utilizing HTML5 placeholder and CSS styling. The perfect blend of both attributes produces a simple search box design with shadow effects.
Suggestions Search Box in pure CSS
Do you love playing with CSS functions? If yes, then go with this easy tutorial helpful to create the expandable suggestion search field which is purely developed by CSS technology. This tutorial will really help you attain an ideal CSS powered search box.
Flexible Search Form
An example of flexible search input comes with fixed width submit button and border that allows using search input as per the need or flexibility.
Conclusion:
Many website developers ignore the search bar importance by giving priority to other web design & development related tasks. This feature owns utmost significance. Hence, it must be placed over the website to make the visitors’ searching task flawless. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial feed and liked the listed search forms powered by CSS3, HTML5, and jQuery.
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Author Bio:
David Meyer is a web developer from CSSChopper – Sketch to HTML company. Being a passionate writer, he loves writing posts on different website development technology. Follow him on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.