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Accessibility / 22 Jan 2025

Dark Mode and Accessibility: Finding the Right Balance

It didn’t take long for the “dark mode” to become a requirement for every user interface design. What started out as a design trend turned into a must-have feature for offering a comfortable user experience.

Due to its popularity, every type of design, from the UIs of operating systems on computers to websites, mobile apps, and even print designs now features a dark mode option.

According to a survey by Android Authority, 81.2% of 2,514 users claimed they prefer dark mode on their phones over light mode. It’s quite effective on desktop as well. After switching to a dark mode theme, a company was able to reduce the bounce rate by 60% and boost pageviews by 170% on their website.

But not everyone gets it right. Dark mode design is more than about adding a black background to a design. It’s about improving accessibility while balancing aesthetics at the same time. This process comes with some challenges as well.

In this post, we explore the importance of implementing dark mode in designs and discuss the benefits and the challenges that come with it. Let’s dive in.

Brochure Templates / 22 Jan 2025

120+ Best Microsoft Word Brochure Templates 2025

Today, we’re bringing you a set of professionally designed Microsoft Word brochure templates to help you get a head start on your next brochure project.

Every designer has a collection of pre-designed templates. These templates not only allow you to enhance your workflow but also save hours of time otherwise spent searching for an inspiring starting point.

Whether you’re working on a brochure for a business, a case study, report, or a project proposal, you’ll find plenty of options to choose from in this collection of templates (and even more with our quick brochure design tips, and our full series on brochure templates!)

Microsoft Word Templates / 20 Jan 2025

40+ Best Invoice Templates for Word (Free & Pro) 2025

Most businesses, entrepreneurs, and freelancers don’t pay much attention to the design of their invoices. For them, even an automatically generated invoice is enough as long as it gets the job done.

But the important thing to keep in mind is that even your invoice is part of your brand. So using a professionally-designed invoice that fits your brand identity is crucial to delivering a memorable experience to clients.

The good news is that you don’t have to look too far to find a great-looking invoice for your business. With the help of MS Word invoice templates, you can easily create an on-brand invoice without having to spend hours designing one from scratch.

In this collection, we bring you lots of choices for finding the best Word invoice template to get started. They are fully customizable, printable, and come in various styles of designs.

Grab a template and start making some money!

After Effects Templates / 17 Jan 2025

50+ Best After Effects Title Templates 2025

Today we’re bringing you a collection of After Effects title templates featuring stunning visual effects and animations you can use in your own videos.

We handpicked these After Effects templates to feature titles of all kinds, including title scenes for YouTube openers, product promotions, social media videos, business videos, trailers, and much more.

All of these templates are from Envato Elements, where you can download all of these templates and more than a million other design elements for a single monthly subscription.

Have a look and start downloading.

Trends / 15 Jan 2025

Navigation Trends for 2025: Keeping It Simple and Intuitive

Website navigation design went through a series of phases over the past few years. So, what can we expect to see this year? Which navigation trends will be most popular and effective? Let’s have a look.

Over the years, designers found creative ways to make website navigation look cool and interesting. While most of those trends died off quickly, some of them, like mega-menus, off-canvas menus, and sticky navigation made it to the web design hall of fame and are still being used to this day.

In this post, we explore some of the popular navigation trends of the past few months and see which ones will be most effective this year. Without further ado, let’s dive in.

Font Collections / 14 Jan 2025

45+ Best Aesthetic Fonts in 2025

Typography plays a vital role in creating an elegant and aesthetic feel for various types of designs.

Take luxury brands like Chanel or Gucci, for example. Typography takes the center stage in their product packaging designs and it’s widely recognized as the signature look for these high-end brands.

It’s the fonts they use that create this sense of modernism, luxury, and aesthetic feel. This is why aesthetic fonts are quite popular in the fashion, lifestyle, beauty, and cosmetic industries. As well as many others.

In this collection, we will help you find the perfect aesthetic font for your design project. We have a few different styles of fonts in this list ranging from aesthetic handwriting to cursive and wavy fonts. Have a look.

Business Card Templates / 10 Jan 2025

What to Put on a Business Card: 8 Creative Ideas

What to put on a business card? It’s a tricky question. A business card that contains just the right information (and a stellar design) will grab attention and help you stand out. It’s the thing that makes someone else remember you, or your pitch.

Even in the digital age, a business card is a popular–and necessary networking and communication tool. Having a great business card provides legitimacy to your or your business, it’s a quick and easy way to exchange information, and can provide ways to help promote your work.

What you put on your business card says a lot to others. Here’s a guide to what to put on a business card, with plenty of creative ideas to help you get started.

Photoshop Actions / 9 Jan 2025

100+ Best Watercolor Photoshop Actions & Effects 2025

Whether you’re designing a unique website background, a poster, sketch, or creating an artistic photo composition, using a watercolor Photoshop action can make your design stand out from the crowd.

A watercolor effect it’s not an easy effect to master when created from scratch. It takes a lot of work, time, and skill to achieve a realistic watercolor effect in Photoshop. The good news is that using a watercolor Photoshop action can help you skip the learning curve and experiment with a watercolor effect in just a few clicks!

In this collection, we’re featuring some of the best watercolor Photoshop actions you can use to turn your photos into watercolor art, craft amazing backgrounds, and do much more.

We’ve also collected a set of tips for choosing watercolor Photoshop actions to help you make a decision on what type of action you need.

After Effects Templates / 8 Jan 2025

55+ Best After Effects Intro Templates 2025

Even expert designers and video editors need a helping hand sometimes. In this collection, we’re featuring some of the best After Effects intro templates for quickly making modern and effective intro scenes, logo reveals, and openers for all kinds of videos.

These templates can also be easily customized to your preference by changing colors, fonts, and images to make them fit perfectly in your videos.

Whether you’re looking for an intro scene for a YouTube video, a corporate video, branding video, or even a wedding video album, below you’ll find templates to fit all your needs.

Plus, we’re sharing our tips for making a compelling intro video to help get you off to a great start. Let’s dive in!

Keynote Templates / 5 Jan 2025

90+ Keynote Business Slide Templates 2025

What’s the most important part of a business presentation? The way you dress? Your speech? Or is it your body language? It’s actually none of the above!

Your presentation slides are the most important part of a business presentation. Why? Because your clients will be staring at the slides at all times and you’ll be using those slides to visualize your speech. That’s why you should pay close attention when designing the slides for your presentations.

To help you get started with your Keynote slide designs, we handpicked the best Keynote slides templates you can use for your business and corporate presentation needs. Design your presentation right, follow our tips on how to give a Keynote presentation with impact, and you’ll capture and keep the attention of everyone in the room!

Lightroom Presets / 4 Jan 2025

85+ Best Landscape Lightroom Presets 2025

Unlike taking portrait photos, capturing beautiful scenes in travel and landscape photos is quite difficult because you have to work with the natural lighting conditions. With the power of a landscape Lightroom preset, you can add incredible depth and personality to your landscape photos with just a few clicks!

Whether you’re a professional photographer using a DSLR or a traveler snapping photos with a smartphone, Lightroom is a must-have app that will help improve your landscape photos. One of the many benefits of using Lightroom is the ability to use presets. With a simple Lightroom preset, you can instantly optimize your photos, adjust colors, lighting, and more with just one-click.

In this collection, we handpicked some of the best landscape Lightroom presets you can use to enhance your outdoor photos without having to spend hours adjusting and optimizing settings in Photoshop.

We’re also featuring a set of tips for editing landscape photos, with helpful ideas and advice.

Lightroom Presets / 3 Jan 2025

How to Install & Apply a Lightroom Preset

Whether you are a photographer or designer with a need to edit photos, Adobe Lightroom can be a great tool. Designed for photo editing, it allows batch work that can be cumbersome in programs such as Photoshop.

One of the most popular elements of Lightroom are the number of presets available. These tools within the tool are super filters that allow you to enhance photos, add creative effects and add functionality to your design workflow. If you’ve used any Adobe product, the feel of Lightroom is familiar and easy to learn. Get started by installing and using a few cool presets. Here’s how to do it.