Visual planning for UX / UI designers

 

Looking at some of the best websites for inspiration moving into 2022! In this video, we will look at the top 5 websites for three js, scroll interactions, custom cursors, and beautiful web interactions. Try Milanote to plan your next creative project: https://milanote.com/caler1021

Create inspiring design briefs

Milanote is the perfect app for drafting design briefs. The best briefs are so much more than just text. With Milanote you can easily add videos, checklists, PDFs, design files, and more when you create your brief. Start with a template or create your own creative brief layout.

• Drag and drop files from any folder on your computer.

• Add audio and video files.

• Create checklists and assign tasks.

Rally your team around the people that they're designing for by creating dynamic and inspiring persona boards. Check out our guide for more information on creating user personas in Milanote.

Creating a user journey map can help you to design better products and services. By drilling down into the pain points and frustrations during a user experience, you can quickly identify what needs to change and brainstorm possible solutions. When starting a new user journey map it can be inspiring to begin on a blank canvas, like opening up a new notebook. But if you want to start with a more traditional structure, you can use Milanote's user journey map template to help save you time.

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What is DAM?

A digital asset management (DAM) system brings harmony to the media-rich core of your brand. DAM platforms have the power to store, share and organize all digital content in a secure and centralized location. Get more out of your creative files such as images, videos, and other media by ensuring your team can find, share, and optimize your digital assets in real-time.

What is a digital asset?

Digital assets are any content that can be stored digitally, so you can create, manage, publish, and share content with anyone inside or outside your organization. In today’s rapidly evolving digital climate, there’s no limit to what a digital asset can be. Files like videos, music, photos, documents, and other media that contain the rights to use them are considered assets.

Consider the types of files and assets that are routinely created and shared across your organization. The marketing team creates and collaborates on advertisements, social media content, videos, and emails. Operations and services teams produce process documentation, blueprints, and workflow diagrams. And if you’re working with a network of vendors or providers, you may be producing images and content that you want to make available to them on-demand.

Virtually every department engages with digital assets that fuel the growth and success of your organization. With a digital asset management (DAM) platform, team members across every sector of your business can search, collaborate, and share assets with maximum efficiency.

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12 Trends in Graphic Design for 2022


Best Forum Software - Our Top Picks

May 11, 2022, Nabilla R. (Hostinger)

Creating an on-line forum is a great way to engage with your target audience and nurture communication with different communities.

An online forum usually focuses on a specific subject, from technology and politics to hobbies and recent trends. Many business owners use forum platforms to market their products and services to a broader audience.

The list below is a curated collection of the 11 best forum software tools we recommend for those who want to create their forums.

1. phpBB – Hundreds of free extensions available

2. MyBB – Fewer extensions available

3. Vanilla Forums – Some free add-ons, more paid extensions

4. WordPress – A lot of paid and free plugins are available

5. Joomla! – Fewer plugins available

6. Drupal – Lots of paid and free modules available

7. Simple Machines Forum – Large collection of modules available

8. FluxBB – Limited plugin options

9. Codoforum – Free and paid plugins available

10. Discourse – Lots of free and paid plugins available

11. Flarum – Free and paid plugins available

Let’s explore some of the best community forum software options in more detail:

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Web Design Trends


5 Web Design Tips You Can't Ignore in 2022

Great website design starts with the fundamentals. Here's how you can turn your website from boring and unhelpful to dynamic and valuable.

By Adam Petrilli

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.

Whichever type of business you run, having a clean, user-friendly website is critical. Your business site not only serves as the digital home base for your business and product line, but also anchors your entire digital marketing approach, giving a central hub to point toward and connect customers with your brand and business. Delivering a poor website experience can hinder those efforts and sever those connections before they even start.

Here are five web design tips for turning your site into an online customer conversion dynamo in 2022.

When it comes to helpful web design tips, first impressions still make the top of the list. That's because what users interact with immediately after loading your site lays the groundwork for the entire experience. And if your web design isn't delivering the goods in those crucial opening seconds, you're not only losing new visitors, but opportunities to create a powerful and positive brand memory that generates interest and sales down the road.

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20 Free Nature Brushes for Photoshop

If you’re a designer or digital artist who loves creating nature-inspired designs, you know that having a diverse range of tools at your disposal is essential. When it comes to digital design, one of the most powerful tools in your arsenal is undoubtedly Photoshop, and within that program, brushes can be a game-changer.

With the right brushes, you can create intricate and nuanced designs that capture the essence of the natural world. Whether you’re creating a forest scene or a seascape, brushes can help you bring your vision to life. The only problem? Finding the perfect brush can be time-consuming and frustrating, especially if you’re not sure where to look.

When creating nature-inspired designs, it’s vital to have a variety of tools in your toolbox. And when you’re working with Photoshop, a major toolset comes in the form of brushes. Not to fret, however. You don’t need to go hunting around for brushes that suit your next project. We’ve compiled a collection of free nature brushes for Photoshop.

 

This collection consists of nature brushes that are all entirely free, which makes using them all the sweeter. Please read the fine print on each just in case there are attribution clauses in the mix.

Word of note aside, let’s dive right into this list!

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Custom web design services made easy

Every business needs to be online. Stand out from the competition and make your brand look its best with stunning web page design. With 99designs web design services, you'll get thoughtful, effective web page designs created by professionals.

Professional designers—all rated and reviewed

Dozens of web design concepts to explore

A custom website design in about a week

There’s no better way to design a website. Multiple designers will send you tons of ideas for your web page, and you’ll choose your favorite. No templates. No robots. No frustrating apps. Just a 100% unique website.

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Bootstrap Tutorial for Beginners - With Samples

Hello Coders!

This article presents the basic concepts of Bootstrap 5 that might help beginners to start faster with this amazing framework. Upon finishing this article you will know what Bootstrap is and how to code a Landing Page as well as a Dashboard Layout using only HTML and Bootstrap components. Thanks for reading!

Before we start, curious minds can visualize the projects crafted from scratch using only BS5 components.

✨ What is Bootstrap

Bootstrap is a popular JS/CSS Framework for developing responsive and mobile-first websites, that provides HTML, CSS, and JavaScript-based design templates for almost anything, including (but not limited to): typography, forms, buttons, navigation, and other components.

Bootstrap focuses on simplifying the development of informative web pages. The primary purpose of adding it to a web project is to apply Bootstrap's choices of color, size, font, and layout to that project. Currently, Bootstrap 5 is the newest version of Bootstrap, with new components, a faster stylesheet, and more responsiveness.

A super important fact about Bootstrap, despite the huge adoption, is that the framework is actively supported and versioned by programming experts and open-source enthusiasts.

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How to Serve a Subdomain as a Subdirectory

Let’s say you have a website built on a platform that excels at design and it’s available at example.com. But that platform falls short at blogging. So you think to yourself, “What if I could use a different blogging platform and make it available at example.com/blog?”

Most people would tell you that goes against how DNS and websites are supposed to work and to use a subdomain instead. But there are benefits to keeping your content on the root domain that we just don’t get with subdomains.

There’s a way to serve two different platforms on the same URL. And I’m going to show you the secret sauce so that, by the end of this article, we’ll make blog.example.com serve as example.com/blog.

Why you’d want to do this

Because you’re here, you probably already know why this is a path to pursue. But I’d like to ensure you are here for the primary reason to do this: SEO. Check out these 14 case studies that show positive results when people move their subdomains over to subdirectories. You want your blog and your domain to share SEO value. Putting it on a subdomain would somewhat disconnect the two.

This was my reason, and wound up merging two platforms, where the main domain was on WordPress and the subdomain was on Drupal. But this tutorial is platform agnostic — it’ll work with just about any platform.

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