Alex Walker
SitePoint
Collingwood, ON, Canada
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Getting Started with Lottie.js
Getting Started with Lottie.js – LottieJS is a great animation platform, but what animation tool should you choose? Here are a few options. → Read More
Review: Is Editor X a serious option for Web Developers?
Editor X is an online website builder. It's easy and convenient, but can it offer the power and flexibility that tech-savvy users need? → Read More
UI Design Inspiration: Do You Think About Your Textures?
Looking for UI design inspiration? Rather than adding a new color or changing a font, have you thought about your textures? → Read More
Web Typography: Establishing a Strong Typographic System
Setting up a new typography system is always a complicated task with literally hundreds of tweakable variables. The best way to save your sanity is a design system that can answers most of those little questions. → Read More
The Cicada Principle and Why It Matters to Web Designers (updated)
Read The Cicada Principle and Why It Matters to Web Designers (updated) and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more. → Read More
Webflow Review: Is It a Serious Option for Tech-Savvy Users?
Read Webflow Review: Is It a Serious Option for Tech-Savvy Users? and learn Low Code with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more. → Read More
SitePoint NFTs – or how we floated rhinos on the OpenSea
Read SitePoint NFTs - or how we floated rhinos on the OpenSea and learn Web with SitePoint. Our foray into the dynamic and fast evolving world of NFTs begins with Rhinos on OpenSea. → Read More
UI Code Challenge #1
The user interfaces we see in popular culture are often more fun than ones we build at work. Here's a code challenge to show us how you'd build your own. → Read More
5 Fast Tools For Generating Polished Product Mockups —
Product mockups are used to showcase web/app designs in a device frame, but can we accomplish this without Photoshop? Yes, and today, Alex shows us how! → Read More
4 Photoshop Styles to Lift Your Photos above of the Crowd —
Duotones, Muted Black & White, Targeted Blur Effect, and more. Gabrielle has four fresh Photoshop styles to spice up to your repetoire. → Read More
SVG Tip: Create a Bold Vector Halftone Graphic in Under 2 Minutes —
This is a section from a 500 year old woodcut from perhaps the 'Andy Warhol of woodcut artists' - Albrecht Dürer. Woodcut is an old printing technique where the image is hand engraved into a wooden block by specialist blockcutters. Prints are then taken from the block. Woodcuts are always bold and stark in nature because – unlike most painting techniques – there are no mid-tone colors or blends.… → Read More
6 Clever SVG Pattern Generators for Your next Design —
Though SVG Patterns aren't super widely understood, they offer a lot of really interesting design options – once you get your head around them. → Read More
Optimizing and Exporting SVG in Adobe Illustrator
SVG is a powerful format but you need to make good decisions to get great results. Ivalyo walks you through exporting SVG in Adobe Illustrator. → Read More
Podcast: Google Ventures on When Design Sprints Go Bad —
Lots of companies talk about 'design sprints', but are we all talking about the same thing? Jake Knapp – the man who documented it – has some ideas on that. → Read More
Podcast: Behind the Facebook Logo
Getting paid for your design talents in equity is romantic – but rarely actually pays off. But what if you happened to design the Facebook logo? → Read More
New Podcast: #Ep1 – Designing for Scale: Inside Atlassian’s Design Teams
True North Design Podcast: Ben Newton talks to the Atlassian Design Team about how design – and the teams behind it – can successfully scale. → Read More
The Top 9 Animation Libraries for UI Designers in 2017 —
Animation is a part of a UI designer's job in 2017. Here are the 9 animation libraries we think deliver the most power for smallest file size. → Read More
Finch.io: A Visual Tool for Finding and Fixing Design Bugs —
Finch.io is a new visual approach to finding and fixing bugs in your web projects. We take a test-drive of the beta to see what the fuss is about. → Read More
Design Tricks with SVG Filters: A Masked Blur Effect —
SVG might be a vector format, but it has some amazingly powerful pixel-based tricks up its sleeve. Follow Alex's journey – if you dare. → Read More
5 Emerging Trends to Amp-up Your Web Designs in 2017 —
Gabrielle Gosha reveals which web design trends you need to try in 2017, including meganavs, overlapping content and neutral tones. → Read More