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20 Essential Characteristics of a Good Designer
Do you think you have what it takes to be a great designer? Here are some characteristics that every great designer has:
They create effective headers.
They know their color functions.
Designers are good at creating great layouts.
Designers know how to pick color schemes.
They have a design process.
They have a design playlist for those long days.
Designers are good [...]
IconDock – NDesign Studio Launches New Icon Shop
NDesign-Studio just launched a new icon shop last month called IconDock.com . The website has an awesome collection of premium icon sets that will work with a variety of purposes. The best part about the shop? You can buy individual icons for only $1. That means if you’re just looking for an image to put [...]
Getting Started with Web Design – The Layout
No matter what you may have been told about designing for the web, the layout is the most important part of any design. Whether it’s radical and experimental or the same two column layout you see on so many blogs, layout is king in the design world.
What makes the layout of a website so [...]
Getting Started with Website Design – The Brief
Design is more than creating pretty layouts and interesting effects. Web designs are made to optimize the content and the overall message of the site. Before you can begin creating the design, you have to know the purpose of the website you’re trying to design.
The “brief” is the list of details and information a client [...]
