Richard Yang, a UX designer at Sony, shares his path from a guy with zero experience in design to a respected professional with a high paying job. Much like with any professional, in the past, present or future, it wasn’t an overnight success, but an inhuman amount of work and dedication, with plenty of failure.
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I think this image is probably the best explanation I’ve ever seen of the difference between sketches, wireframes, and mockups. It comes from this article.
Creative Commons is beta testing a new search implementation. It helps with finding creative work (mostly images for now) that one can use commercially, modify, adapt, and build upon. For now, it brings the results from a few different sources that you’d have to search separately before – 500px, Flickr, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library, and Rijksmuseum.
I’m sure once the functionality and performance are stabilized, more resources and types of creatives will be added. After all, Creative Commons works with quite a few platforms.
Oh, and if you’ve spent the last few years in a cave and don’t know what Creative Commons is all about, here are a couple of links for you:
Via WordPress Tavern.
Skilled.co put together this HTML Canvas Tutorial, which covers the HTML 5 <canvas> functionality, that allows web developers to draw all sorts of graphics on the fly, using JavaScript. The tutorial is available for download in PNG and PDF formats, as well as on the webpage, and it covers the following:
It also provides a few useful tips, inspiration, and links to other resources.
WordPress Theme Developer Handbook:
The Theme Developer Handbook is a repository for all things WordPress themes. Whether you’re new to WordPress themes, or you’re an experienced theme developer, you should be able to find the answer to many of your theme-related questions right here.
Finally, there is a more organized resources that WordPress Codex!