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This month we are focusing on three trends within a bigger website design trend – different navigation menu styles and features. So many projects are featuring interesting navigation patterns right now as there’s a focus – and almost push and pull – on navigation that feels more consistent between devices. Title: 3 Essential Design Trends, June 2023 Sourced From: www.webdesignerdepot.com/2023/05/3-essential-design-trends-june-2023/ Published Date: Mon, 29 May 2023 05:30:00 -0700

In this post, we bring you a handpicked collection of award certificate templates that allows you to design professional-looking certificates to symbolize all sorts of achievements. With these templates, you can craft modern and visually appealing certificates without hiring designers or crafting them from scratch. All you have to do is, edit the templates to replace the titles and text with your own. For this certificate templates list, we focus on templates that you can customize using Microsoft Word, which are also coincidentally compatible with Google Docs. Dive in and explore all the templates below. Professional Certificate Template for Word This certificate template features a minimal and professional design that makes it suitable for designing both educational and corporate award certificates. All the fonts used in the template are free to download and it comes in A4 size. You can also add color and replace the brand logos to customize the design. Landscape & ...

Remember Macromedia Flash? Back in the day, it was one of the most popular apps used for not just 2D animation but also to make browser-based games. Adobe acquired Macromedia in 2005 and rebranded Flash software as part of its Creative Cloud suite. And in 2015, Adobe changed it again by renaming it Adobe Animate. It is still the go-to software for creating animated and interactive designs for everything from online ads to games, cartoons, vector animations, and more. But is it really worth the $20.99 per month subscription? If you’re looking for an app to design an animation for a website or to craft a simple animated cartoon, there are far better and more affordable Adobe Animate alternatives you could use without having to pay for an expensive subscription. Today, we’re taking a look at some of the best Adobe Animate free and premium alternatives you can access to create all sorts of 2D animated content. Most of them are completely free. Have a look. 1. Krita Price: Free ...

Cropping is a fundamental design technique used to remove unwanted portions of an image, focus on specific areas, or adjust the aspect ratio. In this article, we will guide you through the process of cropping images in Figma and discuss additional tips to help you make the most of this essential tool. It’s a slightly tricky technique to master in Figma, as you’ll need to be using masks, rather than traditional cropping tools. But we’ve got some helpful tips to get you started! Using Masks for Cropping Figma does not have a dedicated cropping tool; instead, it uses masks to achieve a similar effect. Masks allow you to show or hide portions of layers, including images. Follow these steps to crop an image using a mask in Figma: Import the image you want to crop into your Figma project by dragging and dropping it from your file explorer or using the “Place Image” option in the toolbar.Create a shape using the Rectangle, Ellipse, or Polygon tool that represents the area you want t...

Design localization is a difficult but necessary process. Making your designs more accessible and available to people around the world is arguably the most important part of UI and UX design. Usually, you have to spend a big budget on agencies and hire expert translators to localize your designs. And it often makes the localization process more confusing, especially when working with different professionals for translating languages and alternating between LTR and RTL languages. Even when you finally have your designs translated, you will then have to deal with other problems like text expansion or contraction, which forces you to go back to the drawing board to alter your designs. We came across a new Figma plugin that offers a much smoother way of localizing your designs. While it’s not a complete solution for all of the aforementioned issues, it certainly makes the process of translating designs much simpler. Today, we take a look at Localazy, a Figma plugin that allows you ...