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UX Design / 11 Jul 2022

5 Tips to Avoid Deceptive Patterns in Website Design

There’s nothing worse than something that auto-renews unexpectedly. Or finding yourself stuck in a website pattern that just doesn’t do what you want to expect.

These are deceptive patterns – user experience tricks and methods that force users into something unintended. It can include visual elements, interactivity, audio, motion, hidden sales, and more. And although commonly used, they are a bad idea.

Here’s how to avoid using deceptive patterns in website design, and some tips on better approaches to take!

Trends / 7 Jul 2022

Design Trend: Design With Whimsy

Light, happy, and whimsical design elements are just the trend we need in the world right now.

These projects bring a more joyous touch to all types of projects in various industries with common themes that are just a little more quirky than you might expect.

They don’t have to feel childish or tacky – they can bring a personality to your projects that’s often all too lacking in modern design.

Here’s a look at this website design trend with a little inspiration for incorporating it into your projects.

Font Collections / 7 Jul 2022

Cursive vs. Script Typography: Which Is Better?

Typography is an art form with a rich history. If you ask any experienced designer, they’ll agree with you immediately that typography is much more than just font pairing and choosing good-looking typefaces.

Much like picking the right colors and arranging content in a layout, typography also plays an important role and has strong psychological effects on every design. The debate between cursive and script fonts is quite the same.

On the surface, they may look very similar but cursive and script are two different fonts used in different types of designs. While some designers prefer script fonts over cursive and vice versa, it’s not just a matter of preference. It’s mainly about which font is appropriate for the overall design.

Let’s explore this topic and end this cursive vs. script debate once and for all by figuring out which type of font is better.

Font Collections / 6 Jul 2022

25+ Best Curvy Fonts in 2024 (Free & Pro)

Curvy fonts (or script fonts) are always known to add a certain elegance to designs. Especially when it comes to wedding invitations, greeting cards, and feminine logos, a curvy font is a must-have element to complete the design.

Lately, designers have been using script and curvy fonts in many creative ways. Like crafting titles for website headers and even product label designs. As it helps to add a sophisticated look that can’t be achieved with most other types of fonts.

Today, we’re showcasing some of the most beautiful curvy fonts we’ve found. These fonts have stylish curves, swashes, and letters with bends and twists to give your text an extra special look.

We gathered premium fonts from Envato Elements and included a few free curvy fonts for you to download. Check them all out below.

Google Slides Themes / 5 Jul 2022

20+ Pitch Deck Presentation Templates for Google Slides

Creating an effective and engaging Google Slides pitch template can often be the most challenging part of a project, especially if it’s not your area of expertise. You’ve done all your research, come up with an incredible idea, and collated your content ready to win buy-in from your stakeholders – but now you’ve got to put on your graphic designer hat and make it look good, too?

Fortunately, we’ve come up with a list of the best professionally designed, purpose-built Google Slides pitch deck templates from both premium and free design sources, all ready for you to download, customize and use for your next pitch!

No matter what industry you’re in, or whether you’re pitching a project, business, or anything in between, we’re confident that you’ll find a template that’s perfect for your needs – and will save you plenty of time and stress in creating your own from scratch!

Let’s take a look at our selection of the best Google Slides pitch deck templates for 2022.

Final Cut Pro Templates / 5 Jul 2022

20+ Text & Typography Templates for Final Cut Pro (Animated Text)

Using typography in videos is more than just about animating text. It’s a process that requires creative thinking. If you don’t pick the right template, you could ruin the entire video.

For example, typography in explainer videos needs to be very clear and have animations that flow with the video to help educate the audience about a product or service. And it’s an entirely different process for designing typography for a movie credits scene, YouTube intro, or adding song lyrics to a music video.

What if you could find typography templates for all those different types of videos in one place? Well, that’s exactly what we did.

In this article, you’ll find brilliant text and typography templates for Final Cut Pro. Download, customize, and start making amazing videos.

Accessibility / 4 Jul 2022

10 Reasons Why Alt Text Matters

If you aren’t using meaningful alt text in website projects, you are committing a crime on the internet. This tiny element has a big function, and comes with a huge impact on usability, readability, and accessibility.

If you thought that alt text was only for the purposes of accessibility, think again. It can help Google better understand your content, provide important context for what your page is about, and help readers navigate.

Here’s a guide to creating alt text that will help create more impact and a better user experience on your website.

Font Collections / 30 Jun 2022

45+ Best Retro Text Effects & Styles

Are you looking for a way to design stunning retro text effects without having to spend hours in Photoshop? Then you’ll love our collection of retro text effect templates and styles that you can use to cut your design work in half.

Whether you’re working on a retro-style title for a website header, designing a badge for a T-shirt, logo for a brand, or crafting unique quote pictures for a social media campaign, this handpicked collection has a text effect for all kinds of design work.

No need to choose. You can actually download all these text effects for a single price. Simply subscribe to Envato Elements and start downloading everything on the platform. See if you can find some inspiration for your next design from this great collection of retro text effects!

We’ve also featured our tips for retro design, to help you get you started with any retro-style design project.

CV & Resume Templates / 30 Jun 2022

20+ Modern Google Docs Resume Templates 2024

Google Docs is arguably the best app you can use to make a great resume. Why? Because it’s Free!

Unlike Microsoft Word, you don’t have to buy an expensive subscription to use Google Docs. And you can use templates to quickly make resumes without effort. It’s just what you need when you have to put together a quick resume for that dream job opening that just appeared on your Twitter feed.

Whether you’re preparing a resume for your first job application or revamping an old resume, we’ve gathered some great Google Docs resume templates for you to choose from.

In this list, you’ll find many different styles of resume and CV templates for all kinds of professions. There are a few free templates in there as well. Go have a look.

PowerPoint Templates / 29 Jun 2022

35+ Best Medical PowerPoint Templates

We’ve prepared a handpicked collection of the best medical PowerPoint templates you can use to quickly make a professional medical-related presentation all by yourself.

It takes a lot of time and effort to prepare for an event presentation. You have to do the research, prepare the speech and lots more. On top of all that, you also have to design an engaging PowerPoint presentation as well.

Thanks to PowerPoint templates designed by professionals, you no longer have to use a mundane default template or spend hours designing the perfect slideshow. Here are a few of the best PowerPoint templates you can use for all kinds of medical themed presentations.

Whether you’re a doctor, dentist, nurse, researcher, or medical sales rep, these presentation templates will get you off to a great start. And our series of tips on what to look for in a medical PowerPoint Template should help as well!

PowerPoint Templates / 28 Jun 2022

20+ Best Travel & Tourism PowerPoint Templates 2024

Colorful landscapes, mesmerizing views of nature, and the richness of different lands are just a small part of what you can imagine when we touch on the theme of travel PowerPoint templates. These examples are a great way to quickly and easily create a travel-related presentation.

Whether you’re showcasing your own travel photos, creating a presentation for a particular hotel, or making plans for a trip, loads of these travel PPT templates will fit the bill.

These travel PowerPoint templates are really helpful for travel agencies, for introducing new hotels and places for vacation, for teachers in schools and universities, for working on international projects, and so on.

Trends / 27 Jun 2022

Design Trend: Almost Too Many Layers

Have you noticed this trend in website design: layers on layers? I feel like I’ve been seeing more of it everywhere recently, and it’s a polarising one!

This is a design technique that can range from amazing in terms of visuals and usability to disastrous quickly. It’s clear that there’s a middle ground where it works, but it’s very easy to go too far!

Here, we’ll look at some ways to use it most effectively and a little more about what this design trend is about.