Are Templates, Themes and UI Kits Killing the Web?
Design resources aren't anything new, although they have evolved over the years to cater for the different challenges that designers are facing. We've seen a rise »
What's New With Sympli: Introducing the Fall 2017 Update
It’s been an incredibly busy summer for the team here at Sympli, where we’ve been working hard to add new tools and features to »
Sympli Integrates with Atlassian JIRA to Make Project Management More Powerful
Yes, you heard me! Sympli has been working together with Atlassian's Solution Partner Program to integrate JIRA, the #1 tool for development teams that need to »
Wearable Tech: Should Designers Learn UX for Wearables?
Last week we spoke about the cutting-edge technology that is Augmented Reality (AR), its big brother Virtual Reality (VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the user experience »
AR and AI: Two Tech Trends Designers Need to Prepare For Now
AR and AI…what are they? AR and AI are two tech terms tearing up the design space. Consumers are investing more money in new and »
5 Apps to Help You Choose Mesmerising Color Schemes
When designing for screens (or designing anything really), there are right colours and then there are wrong colours. Even though the "right" colour for a brand »
4 New(ish) CSS Properties You Should Start Implementing…and Why
Websites are evolving, have you noticed? Let's take Figma, or Atomic.io, or Gravit Designer for example—would you have ever thought (even 5 years ago) »
Redesigning Password UX: What's the Best Solution?
Passwords suck. They obviously help to keep our accounts secure from hackers (or snooping friends and family), but in an ideal world we wouldn't need to »
5 Smashing Sketch Plugins to Bolster Your Sympli Workflow
If you're a Sympli user that uses Sketch, I won't need to tell you how beautiful the Sympli Plugin for Sketch really is. That feeling when »
How to Lose a Visitor in Those 10 Critical Seconds
Back in 2014, Hubspot discovered that, on average, 55% of website visitors spend only 15 seconds on the websites that they visited. Another study, conducted only »
How to Boost Social Media Engagement with Meta Tags
Last week we took a refined look at which meta tags are required and/or relevant in 2017, what they do, the HTML syntax, and how »
Which Meta Tags Should You Be Using in 2017?
Meta tags are those HTML tags that appear in the <head> section of HTML documents, and they act as behind-the-scenes settings that can be »
How to Build Trust When You're Dealing with Online Payments
Money changes everything. People have a completely different attitude towards products when they're not free, compared to when they are free; they become less tolerant when »
Redesigning the UX of London Buses
London buses are an absolute nightmare. I’ve been using them for more than 20 years, but regardless of how technology has changed the way we »
We Need to Talk About Mental Health for Designers
Mental health is not a laughing matter. According to the World Health Organisation, 1 in 4 individuals around the world suffer from a mental disorder, and »