34 tips for turning your art and graphics into amazing animated GIFs
6 illustrators reveal how to turn artworks into fun, charming, powerful or hilarious animated GIFs in Illustrator, Photoshop or After Effects.
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Inclusive Design: why designing for accessibility benefits everyone
Making what you’re designing work well in a wide range of usage scenarios helps both disabled and able-bodied alike.
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The best free online development courses
Learn to code for free with these online development courses.
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The best new design books of September 2018: From stylish newspaper layouts to an inspiring book of ideas
We check out what newly released books about branding, graphic design and more you should be getting your hands on.
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The 12 best apps for drawing and painting on your iPad
Here's our expert pick of the best iPad apps for artists including Affinity Designer, Procreate 4, Autodesk Sketchbook Pro, Comic Draw and more.
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Radim Malinic on why keeping it simple often makes for your best work
In an exclusive extract from his new book, Book of Ideas 2, the illustrator and art director discusses how he's learned to make his most powerful work through restraint.
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11 companies who are trying to exploit designers, artists and photographers
These brands and companies are attempting to get creatives to work for free. Here we name and shame – plus give you advice on what you can learn from them to avoid being exploited.
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How a Google Street View-style guide to one of the world's most crowded islands was created
Santa Cruz del Islote is a remote Colombian island just over the size of a football field and home to around 500 residents. Media Monks created a site that lets you explore it and learn more about sustainability and resource conservation.
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Best animation software and apps for UI and UX design
These paid and free apps and tools – including Airbnb's open source tool, Lottie – are designed to make animating your designs easier.
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Best free storyboard software (and paid-for ones too)
Make roughing and planning your animations a whole lot easier by using these storyboarding apps.
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UK art and design grads shows 2018: Dates & locations
See when and where graphic design, illustration, photography and visual communication degree shows are happening across the UK.
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How Skyscanner built a design system that makes designers and developers lives easier
Skyscanner's senior design manager shares his approaches and tips for building a design system, what design tools they use and his thoughts on 2018’s biggest UX trends.
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This site collects totally adorable images of design studios’ office dogs
Jenny Theolin and illustrator Jessica Eriksson have brought together this wonderful visual celebration of the canine members of top creative agencies.
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31 Repeating Pattern Design Tips
Leading illustrators and designers discuss their techniques for creating beautiful patterns using your choice of Photoshop, Illustrator, pens, paints or pencils.
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The Best Design Podcasts: 15 Entertaining, Insightful Podcasts for Designers
Whether it's graphic or motion design, UX or typography – these podcasts are engaging, helpful and inspiring for anyone in the design sector.
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13 Inspiring Interviews with Amazing Female Illustrators and Designers
For International Women's Day, we've delved into our back catalogue and picked out some our favourite interviews with female artists and designers from the past couple of years.
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Adobe CC buying guide: pricing, new features, discounts & free trials
Adobe released Creative Cloud (CC) in October 2011, in a move towards becoming more of a software-as-a-service provider (though you can use CC products offline as well). If you’re considering a shift to the cloud as well, but aren’t totally sure where (or how) to start, or if it’s worth it, here’s what you need to know.
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Learn UX design: 16 best paid and free UX design courses
Learn UX design with paid and free online courses, including from high-profile universities such as Stanford - as well as offline courses from the likes of General Assembly.
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7 best UX design books to help you learn and master UX
From the latest release on preparing for UX job interviews to books for beginners, learn everything about UX design with these helpful books.
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UX design trends 2018: from voice interfaces to a need to not trick people
Voice UI, accessibility, GDPR and 'dark UX patterns' are what all UX designers need to know about for 2018.
