You’ve just created the best user experience ever. You had the idea. You sketched it out. You started to build it. Except you’re already in trouble, because you’ve forgotten something: the copy. Specifically, the microcopy. Microcopy is the text we don’t talk about very often. It’s the label on a form field, a tiny piece of instructional text, or the words on a button. It’s the little text that can make ...

Editor’s note: This is a contributed post by Paul Dunstone, the founder of JobStock.com, a freelance marketplace that provides job opportunities for freelancers across 250+ different job categories. Paul is also the editor of the Job Stock blog which provides tips for freelancers and small business professionals. The freelancing industry is definitely an evolving environment. With new fields of interest constantly gaining popularity, and employers on the lookout for top ...

In today’s, we are going to explore a new tool from Adobe called Edge Reflow. I believe it helps creating a responsive website “looks so easy”, definetely something a designer and developer should check out. Adobe Edge Reflow is at the time of this writing in public beta stage, and available to download for free. To download, login to the Adobe Creative Cloud site, and you can find the ...

A true artist does not need a special canvas, or the right pencil, or a specific method to create art. A true artist just creates, even when you are working on Starbucks cups. Most of us just throw those paper cups away after getting our daily coffee fix but not Johanna Basford. She sketches beautiful patterns all over them, turning them into nicely decorated cups that you just don’t have ...

You won’t believe your eyes. The goldfish you see below is a still sculpture, made from cold resin and painted with acrylic paint. The sculpture is made by Singapore-based artist cum magician, Keng Lye, who captures aquatic animals in artistic, lifelike moments, that will truly boggle your mind. Take note that all of the following images you will see actually painted on a flat surface! (Image Source: Kenglye) Inspired ...

   With the Leap Motion controller being released on June 27th and the Google Glass Explorer program already live, it is obvious that our reliance on the mouse or even the monitor to interact with the Web will eventually become obsolete. The above statement seems like a given, considering that technology moves at such a rapid pace. Yet in 40 years of personal computing, our methods of controlling our machines haven’t evolved ...

Today there are seem more websites that apply which so called Scrollspy Navigation. Web navigation traditionally direct visitors from one page to another one. But with the Srollspy Navigation, instead of directing visitors to different pages, it will scroll to each section while still on the same page. The menu based on the scrolling position will be automatically highlighted to show the visitors where they are currently on. You ...

   The other day, I finally accomplished one of my long-standing goals: to go from one of those “Wouldn’t it be cool…” ideas to a working, live app in less than 1 hour. 45 minutes, actually. It all started with a design meet-up in San Francisco. I can honestly say this was the best meet-up I’ve ever been to: Even though it was announced only two days in advance, more than 200 ...

Icons are one of the many important components of a successful mobile application. The icon is the thing that distinguishes an app from anothers. Beautifully crafted and designed, it could attract users at first sight. We as developers and designers have the job to ensure that the icon, will be displayed well on the device. The best way to test it out is by displaying the icon on the device ...

   We are talking and reading a lot about responsive Web design (RWD) these days, but very little attention is given to Web applications. Admittedly, RWD still has to be ironed out. But many of us believe it to be a strong concept, and it is here to stay. So, why don’t we extend this topic to HTML5-powered applications? Because responsive Web applications (RWAs) are both a huge opportunity and a ...