David Appleyard

David Appleyard manages the Tuts+ Editorial Team, along with having founded several design websites including Design Shack, Creative VIP, and Themelantic.

Deals / 8 Jul 2015

Save Over $1,400 on 3 Mobile Design Bundles

In this week’s Design Shack Deal feature, we’re rounding up three different deals that will be of interest for anyone designing for mobile.

The featured deals include a selection of great Udemy courses in our Mobile Designer Academy pack, another collection of responsive web design courses (worth over $450), and a fantastic bundle of 43 premium UI sets, PSD kits, templates, and more! Read on to take a look at the full set of different deals and discounts for the week, and we hope you enjoy them!

Deals / 1 Jul 2015

The Immersive User Experience Bundle: Save 94%

In this week’s Design Shack Deal, we’re taking a look at a bundle of fantastic educational courses on immersive user experience.

Whether you’re wanting to learn about Foundation, Framer.js, rapid prototyping, or optimisation and A/B testing, this bundle will include something for you! Read on for a full overview of what each different course covers, and take advantage of the deal!

Competitions / 18 Jun 2015

Win a Retina 5k iMac With Design Shack Deals

The 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display features a breathtaking 14.7 million pixel display so text appears sharper than ever, videos are unbelievably lifelike, and you can see new levels of detail in your photos.

This week, we’re giving one of these fantastic computers away to one lucky winner through Design Shack Deals. Read on to find out how to enter!

Deals / 11 Jun 2015

4 Fantastic UI / UX Deals for Designers

In this week’s Design Shack Deal, we’re taking a look at four different offers around UI and UX.

Whether you’re wanting to master the art of user experience design in an immersive course, grab a lifetime subscription for a great collection of interface elements, or learn about how people think, decide, remember and feel motivation to take action, we’ll have something for you! Read on for a full overview of what each deal includes.

Deals / 4 Jun 2015

4 Tools for Design Entrepreneurs: Save Over $2,700

In this week’s Design Shack Deal, we’re taking a look at four big savings on different tools, resources, and applications for design entrepreneurs.

Whether you’re looking for software to help you better outline your next design project, tools to help build websites, write copy, or just start your own business — we’ll have something to help you get started!

Deals / 2 Jun 2015

Introducing the “Big 50 Font Bundle”: This Month Only

Today, we’re taking a look at The Big 50 Font Bundle. It’s great collection of 50 incredible fonts, plus extras, all with commercial licences for just $29!

It’s an offer of 96% off the $850 retail price, and it’s only available for the month of June. So there’s no time to waste! Read on for a closer look at some of the different typefaces included, and to find out more about the deal. It’s a great collection of lovely fonts, and worth considering adding to your collection!

Win an Apple Thunderbolt Display With Design Shack Deals

Competitions / 26 May 2015

Win an Apple Thunderbolt Display With Design Shack Deals

The 27-inch Thunderbolt Display supersizes your view with an incredible 2560-by-1440 resolution. It features a universal MagSafe connector that charges your notebook, a Mini DisplayPort cable for easy connectivity, three USB ports, and lots more!

This week, we’re giving one of these brand new displays away to one lucky winner through Design Shack Deals. But don’t wait, because the competition ends in just over 24 hours. Read on to find out how to enter!

Deals / 21 May 2015

This Week’s Deal: Up to 92% Off Adobe Courses & Training

This week, we have a collection of different deals for perfecting your knowledge of Adobe CC. Whether you’re wanting to learn Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, InDesign, or anything else, there’ll be a course for you!

Starting from just $25, these course bundles represent savings of hundreds of dollars over the original prices, and they’re a great way to get started with learning something new! Read on to find out more about what’s on offer this week.

Deals / 13 May 2015

Save 92% on the Interactive Coding Bootcamp

This week’s Design Shack Deal is something a bit special. It’s a course that helps you learn how to become a job-ready developer, by building a portfolio of real-world apps and interacting 1-on-1 with the best mentors in the field.

This training is as robust as it gets, including live instruction and job-hunting assistance, on top of 33+ hours of top-notch video courses (some from Stanford, Harvard, etc.). Jump into this 12-week curriculum for 92% off!

Graphics / 5 May 2015

How to Make a Budget Wedding Website With Tumblr

Having a wedding website or blog is all the rage, and it can be a great way to keep your friends and family up-to-date with your wedding planning for the special day.

There are lots of services out there to help, but many are quite expensive or complicated. Today we’re taking a look at how you can build your own wedding website in a few simple steps, using the Wedding Tumblr theme. You’ll have a wedding website to be proud of, in no time at all (here’s an example). All for the price of a couple of wedding magazines!

Inspiration / 1 May 2015

Stay Up-to-Date With Webdesigner News

There are plenty of ways to stay across what’s happening in the design industry. Twitter, Facebook, your collection of RSS feeds, and a growing collection of newsletters and news aggregation sites.

Today we’re taking a look at the new Webdesigner News, to see how it fares, and explore how it can be a useful place to stay up-to-date with the latest news, announcements, releases, and sensations in the web design industry.

Deals / 30 Apr 2015

Save Over $1,800 With 3 WordPress Theme Deals

This week on Design Shack Deals, we’re featuring a collection of three different deals for WordPress. Each one helps you make the most of WordPress — the CMS that powers over 19% of the web!

Whether you’re looking to grab a fantastic subscription to a WordPress theme collection, or use a tool to build and design your own layout from scratch, we’ll have something for you. Read on to find out more, or head straight over to Design Shack Deals to take a look at all our design assets and services!