Free Design Tools for Creative Professionals
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The Best Free Design Tools for Creative Professionals

As an aspiring design enthusiast, I encountered several hiccups owing to my part time jobs at college alongside an unbounded need for creativity. All I had back then was passion and the will to create. The biggest hurdle in my path was looking for zero-cost design software, only to rely on the internet for hours…

Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW
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Comparing Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW: Which is Better?

Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW are the two glaring names when it comes to the talk around graphic design and its essentials. Each software has a group that prefers using it and the arguments about which one stands out seems to get designers charged up. The memory of my first interactions with any design tools is…

Design Systems in Modern Web Development
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The Role of Design Systems in Modern Web Development

Have you ever taken parts of a puzzle from several different boxes and tried to solve it? You know, the one where the colors don’t fully match, the edges are all jagged and there is no piece that seems to click in properly? To a web developer, this is how it would feel like without…

Design Language System (DLS)
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The Design Language System (DLS): Building Consistency in Design

Have you ever experienced a sense of recognition instantly after opening an app or a website? That’s how effective a Design Language System (DLS) is. A design language system, in its simplest terms, is a set of rules which allows developers and designers to ensure that they give users the same experience across different devices….

Benefits of Using Sketch for UXDDesign
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Exploring the Benefits of Using Sketch for UX/DDesign

In this world where everything is going digital faster than light, UI/UX design is key now more than ever. Every day, we are overwhelmed by a plethora of websites and mobile applications needing our attention and sometimes the difference between a user experience and interaction and a good one lies in the beautiful and creative…

Custom Brushes in Adobe Photoshop
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How to Create Custom Brushes in Adobe Photoshop

Is your digital art missing the wow factor, but you can’t quite put your finger on what it is? It’s that factor that makes an artwork an exemplary piece, right? The likes of Adobe’s Photoshop can put in that particular brush that does such . Certainly, inject some uniqueness into your digital work by allowing…

UX Design Tools You Should Know About
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Top 5 UX Design Tools You Should Know About

There’s this one memory, that is utterly unacceptable which I perfectly remember: Being asked to work on a mobile app redesign for a local bakery I aimed at making it more user-friendly to pull in larger crowds as well. The amount of people it should have pulled in had to be astonishing, and remember sitting…

Figma for Collaborative Design Projects
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How to Use Figma for Collaborative Design Projects

Let us start exploring Figma, one of those tools to reckon with and is changing the collaborative design landscape and Figma sorts out many of issues for those who have for example had to manage few design files, had to deal with the iteration of reviews or have run into the problem of alignment of…

Design Tools for Creating Infographics
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Best Design Tools for Creating Infographics

Infographics can be considered the best effective tool for telling a story however, due to the ag advancing world, it’s evident that some people are always in need of quick and fast content. During the last social media scroll, think about the last time you saw an article and a bold infographic, chances are it…