This week, we take a look at the security issues in cheap video doorbells and security cameras, as well as tutorials and webinars on protecting APIs running in Kubernetes, JSON web tokens (JWT), and web and API authentication and authorization.
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YouTube isn’t just for videos of cats snowboarding; it’s also a treasure trove of design tips, freebies, how-tos, career advice, and all-around creative inspiration.
Whether you’re a seasoned design veteran or just taking the first steps along a creative career, there are thousands of videos that will guide your path.
Today, we’ve collected ten of the best YouTube channels for designers, where you’ll find all the guidance you’ll ever want. Enjoy!
The first stop for any aspiring designer or grizzled veteran should be AIGAdesign, the official YouTube channel for AIGA, the American Institute of Graphic Arts.
This channel focuses on a huge range of issues that affect designers. You’ll find insightful and high-production-value videos on branding, the design business, the creative process, and the institute’s numerous initiatives.
Adobe products are still the go-to tool for most designers, and no list of this type would be complete without a nod to the substantial resources that Adobe plows into its YouTube channel.
Review highlights from MAX, Adobe’s annual conference, learn advanced techniques in Creative Cloud apps like Illustrator and Photoshop, and get a sneak peek at upcoming Adobe products.
Google is one of the most influential companies on the web, and not just for SEO. Google’s Design is the megacorp’s creative branch. In addition to releasing design resources like Material Design, they also produce a lot of content on their own YouTube channel to benefit emerging designers.
Look back at Google’s I/O conference sessions, follow guides on how to get the most out of Google resources, and get tips on creativity.
The Futur is an online education platform that happens to be streaming via YouTube. It’s a positive, feel-good channel that’s designed to help you make the most of your career.
You’ll find inspiring videos on building a brand, setting up a studio, coping with client demands, and everything else you need to be a professional designer.
Envato Tuts+ is a YouTube channel that concentrates on the practical side of being a designer with plenty of hands-on guides to different applications.
You’ll also find some excellent videos explaining the fundamentals of topics like variable fonts and animation.
If you’re already proficient with Adobe Creative Cloud, and you’re looking to push your limits a little, then Creatnprocess will teach you more advanced topics.
It’s a great place to learn the more complex aspects of image manipulation, and there are lots of logo design tutorials.
If you’re a fan of Pablo Stanley’s design style, then you’ll love his Sketch Together YouTube channel. He has tons of design tutorials, walk-throughs and project case studies, and in-depth discussions with guest designers.
In case the name wasn’t enough of a clue, Sketch Together also has an awesome collection of Sketch videos.
Martina Flor is an amazing letterer and typeface designer from Berlin, by way of Argentina. As well as running her own studio, she’s an author and educator.
Martina’s YouTube channel is a must-watch for anyone who loves typography and lettering. Her videos include her secrets on how to draw letters.
Pixel & Bracket is a YouTube channel run by Spencer, a designer from Indianapolis.
You’ll find tons of great Creative Cloud tutorials that are easy to follow. You’ll also find a few videos about Spencer’s experience as a designer and a sprinkling of freebies he’s found on market places.
Will Paterson is a logo designer whose YouTube channel critiques famous logos, provides product reviews, and offers invaluable branding design tips.
Will’s got some really original ideas for freelancers, and he’s generous with both his advice and his enthusiasm.
With so many awesome videos available, you could watch them all day long and still only scratch the surface.
The best solution is to subscribe to the channels you like the look of, and then download a few videos with a free app like 4K Video Downloader so you can watch them back whenever you like.
With so much to choose from and a seemingly endless lockdown still in effect, now’s the perfect time to learn a new skill, develop your career, or sit back and enjoy some design banter.
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Paris, le 11 février 2021 – Marque mondialement reconnue, BIC apporte de la simplicité et de la joie au quotidien avec ses produits emblématiques de papeterie, ses briquets et ses rasoirs. Cette mission s’étend à sa culture d’entreprise. Les membres de l’équipe BIC sont animés par une passion commune de concevoir des produits qui font partie de la vie de chacun et de chaque foyer, et de travailler dans une entreprise qui soutient la pensée créative et la liberté d’action pour aider à faire avancer ses objectifs commerciaux.
Pour perpétuer cette tradition, BIC a choisi la suite SAP SuccessFactors Human Experience Management (HXM) pour réimaginer sa stratégie de ressources humaines (RH) et offrir une meilleure expérience de travail à ses collaborateurs.
En mettant en œuvre les solutions HXM de SAP, BIC cherche à créer une solution globale et fiable qui permettra une prise de décision rapide et efficace, afin de permettre à ses employés d’exprimer tout leur potentiel et de pérenniser la croissance de l’entreprise. BIC a choisi la suite SAP SuccessFactors HXM en raison de la simplicité d’utilisation de toutes les solutions, de l’accès à un écosystème RH solide et de la capacité à fournir une suite RH intégrée et innovante comme source unique de vérité.
« Nos collaborateurs sont le cœur de notre entreprise. La suite SAP SuccessFactors HXM nous aidera à prendre des décisions plus efficaces, à favoriser une plus grande collaboration et à soutenir le développement continu de nos équipes », a déclaré Mallory Martino, directrice des ressources humaines de BIC. « Les RH ont un rôle de plus en plus stratégique à jouer pour assurer que nous disposions de l’agilité et de la flexibilité requises pour une activité en constante évolution. La capacité à tirer parti de la richesse de notre main-d’œuvre internationale permettra aux dirigeants de toute l’entreprise de prendre des décisions plus éclairées et de continuer à offrir une meilleure expérience à nos employés« .
La suite SAP SuccessFactors HXM aide les organisations à maîtriser le changement. Les organisations peuvent adapter leur mode de gestion des ressources humaines, en passant des transactions traditionnelles à des expériences simples, de bout en bout et engageantes pour les employés. De plus, en reliant les commentaires des employés aux données opérationnelles, elles peuvent savoir ce qui se passe et pourquoi, afin de créer une entreprise plus flexible et plus résiliente.
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L’upskilling des effectifs est depuis longtemps une priorité pour les organisations. Aujourd’hui, alors que les dirigeants réagissent aux perturbations mondiales, avec pour beaucoup un personnel en télétravail, ils s’appuient plus que jamais sur les technologies et les systèmes de gestion de la formation (LMS).
La crise mondiale du COVID-19 et l’instabilité économique obligent de nombreuses entreprises à « faire plus avec moins » en matière de reskilling et d’upskilling. Heureusement, les technologies de formation sont suffisamment matures pour que les entreprises puissent choisir parmi une gamme de fonctionnalités adaptées à leurs besoins et à leur budget.
Lorsque Discovery, compagnie d’assurance multinationale est passée au travail à distance, les RH ont identifié qu’environ 500 de ses collaborateurs n’étaient pas productifs. Plutôt que de chercher des solutions de court terme pour améliorer la productivité, la compagnie s’est focalisée sur la préparation du personnel aux métiers de l’avenir, par le reskilling. La priorité de l’entreprise reste ses salariés – et cela inclut de les équiper pour demain.
En période de croissance comme de crise les dirigeants s’efforcent de trouver les meilleures solutions pour leurs collaborateurs. Par exemple, les hôpitaux, les instituts de recherche et les organismes de santé répondent aux besoins du personnel de première ligne en créant des technologies de formation et des ressources éducatives visant à prévenir et limiter l’exposition au COVID-19.
Bien que les dernières avancées changent la donne pour les LMS, tous les investissements technologiques ne conviennent pas nécessairement à toutes les entreprises. Voici les éléments que les entreprises peuvent considérer lorsqu’elles investissent dans une nouvelle solution.
Lorsqu’on choisit parmi toutes les options proposées par les technologies de formation, la première chose à vérifier est que les fonctionnalités répondent aux besoins, aux objectifs et à la stratégie des effectifs de l’entreprise. Pour beaucoup d’organisations, des plates-formes flexibles et ouvertes peuvent être nécessaires pour prendre en charge les nombreux éléments critiques.
Par exemple, une entreprise énergétique pourrait limiter l’accès à une zone particulière d’une installation nucléaire aux employés ayant complété une formation obligatoire et certifiante. L’entreprise aurait alors besoin d’un système de gestion de la formation (LMS) capable d’intégrer la certification des employés à ses formations et opérations sensibles.
De même, une entreprise pharmaceutique pourrait avoir besoin de valider l’apprentissage pour se conformer aux réglementations nationales sur les médicaments. Une solution qui offre de l’innovation au niveau de l’écosystème, y compris des applications partenaires, peut fournir des fonctionnalités supplémentaires et flexibles tout au long du cycle de vie des collaborateurs (y compris lors du recrutement, de l’onboarding, du développement et de la gestion de la succession). Si certaines grandes entreprises peuvent avoir besoin de solutions ouvertes qui prennent en charge divers cas d’utilisation, d’autres peuvent vouloir une solution adaptée à un secteur spécifique, comme l’éducation ou la santé. Quoi qu’il en soit, les entreprises devrait prendre le temps de rechercher la technologie pouvant soutenir au mieux leurs objectifs.
De nombreuses entreprises ayant des sites multiples ou un important personnel auront besoin d’un LMS orienté entreprise si elles s’engagent dans le reskilling de centaines voire de centaines de milliers d’employés.
Avec la généralisation du télétravail, les PME/ETI peuvent également avoir besoin d’un LMS qui puisse être étendu au domicile de leurs employés de manière sûre et efficace. Les technologies d’apprentissage mobiles accessibles en déplacement, y compris sur smartphones, pourraient améliorer l’adoption par les télétravailleurs et les employés qui manquent de temps de formation dédié, comme les commerciaux terrain.
Si les outils qui intègrent des formations en réalité virtuelle (VR) ou en réalité augmentée (AR) ne sont peut-être pas adaptés à toutes les situations, ils peuvent être utiles pour préparer les collaborateurs à des situations d’urgence ou à des scénarios uniques. Ces technologies émergentes sont un excellent exemple de la manière dont les outils de formation modernes peuvent aider les entreprises à relever de nouveaux défis et aider les collaborateurs à se perfectionner et se requalifier.
Walmart, par exemple, a formé plus d’un million d’employés en 2019 à la réalité virtuelle afin de proposer un apprentissage immersif. L’entreprise a également envoyé des casques VR dans les magasins pour entraîner les employés à la mise en place d’une machine qui récupère les commandes passées en ligne. Se libérant ainsi de la nécessité d’envoyer plusieurs personnes pour l’assembler, l’entretenir et dispenser une formation.
Qu’ils travaillent dans le retail, sur des plateformes pétrolières ou dans des exploitations agricoles, de nombreux employés pourraient atteindre de nouveaux niveaux de productivité et d’engagement grâce à des solutions personnalisables et flexibles.
Dans de nombreux cas, permettre aux collaborateurs de piloter leur apprentissage peut améliorer l’adoption des programmes, l’engagement et la culture de l’apprentissage. De nombreux employés réagiront positivement à l’upskilling itératif. Lequel leur apporte un sentiment d’appartenance et de fierté. Cet upskilling itératif peut par exemple prendre la forme de vidéos produites par les collaborateurs et partagées avec leurs collègues.
L’apprentissage social peut apporter des avantages à un personnel en télétravail. En atténuant l’isolement, l’anxiété et le manque de motivation auxquels les équipes peuvent être confrontées. Les social boards, chats et « missions » gamifiées sont quelques-unes des caractéristiques des LMS qui peuvent améliorer la collaboration tout en maintenant la distanciation physique. Les managers peuvent également utiliser ces fonctionnalités pour cibler les compétences qui correspondent aux nouvelles priorités et encourager les équipes à atteindre leurs objectifs.
Intégrer un programme d’upskilling dans toute l’entreprise est une initiative majeure qui relève de la gestion du changement. L’alignement des valeurs, des personnes et de la culture d’entreprise pour atteindre un résultat souhaité ne viendra pas uniquement de l’adoption d’une nouvelle technologie. La gestion du changement occupe une place essentielle dans les discussions relatives à l’expérience de formation. Et ce pour au moins trois raisons.
Les RH ne sont pas les seuls à investir dans ces solutions. La majorité des utilisateurs sont rattachés à la sécurité, conformité et formation à la vente. Alors que les budgets restent serrés et que des tensions peuvent surgir entre les services pour savoir qui doit avoir le contrôle des priorités en matière de reskilling et d’upskilling, les fonctionnalités des LMS devraient fournir un vrai retour sur investissement (ROI). Les bénéfices peuvent inclure le gain de temps lié à la recherche et au partage d’informations ; ou l’augmentation des revenus (ou réduction des coûts) résultant de la normalisation des technologies et du soutien à la formation. Par exemple, une étude indépendante sur SAP Jam, réalisée par Forrester Consulting, a révélé que le ROI moyen a augmenté de 18,5 % entre 2016 et 2018, les clients ayant trouvé davantage de façons d’utiliser la plateforme de collaboration.
Pour soutenir la gestion du changement qui accompagne l’introduction d’une nouvelle technologie, les entreprises doivent chercher des solutions qui offrent la possibilité de bêta-tester, d’itérer et d’adapter cette technologie aux besoins des collaborateurs. Les logiciels d’entreprise doivent offrir un support client aux dirigeants et aux employés pour une expérience d’apprentissage sans faille.
« De nombreux experts du reskilling vous diront que la gouvernance est toute aussi importante, si ce n’est plus, que la technologie de formation elle-même »
Les LMS d’aujourd’hui peuvent utiliser des technologies de pointe comme l’intelligence artificielle (IA) et le machine learning pour fournir tout ce qui est nécessaire, du coaching aux plans de développement des collaborateurs. Et ce à une échelle jamais atteinte auparavant. Mais alors que les dirigeants évaluent les options de LMS qui offrent ces nouvelles technologies et ces mots à la mode, il est important qu’ils restent d’abord engagés dans une stratégie des effectifs axée sur les objectifs de l’entreprise.
Si des fonctions comme la gamification et l’apprentissage social peuvent avoir un impact majeur pour certaines organisations, elles peuvent manquer de pertinence pour d’autres. Pour de nombreuses organisations, l’apprentissage classique en salle avec un formateur pourrait encore avoir toute sa place à l’avenir. L’écoute continue des collaborateurs fournira des informations utiles pour répondre à leurs besoins et concevoir une expérience d’apprentissage efficace.
De nombreux experts de l’upskilling conviendront que la formation et l’upskilling est un défi pour les employés et les employeurs. Alors que les entreprises investissent massivement dans les nouvelles technologies, l’objectif premier est d’investir efficacement dans le personnel.
La stratégie à long terme d’une entreprise en matière d’effectifs ne se limite pas au système de gestion de la formation (LMS) qu’elle a choisi. La gestion de l’expérience de formation inclut les nouvelles compétences et connaissances que les personnes vont acquérir ainsi qu’une méthode de travail efficace et agile. Un excellent programme d’upskilling aidera les collaborateurs à pivoter vers les nouveaux rôles qu’ils devront occuper demain et à soutenir l’innovation de rupture dans toute l’entreprise.
Publié en anglais sur insights.sap.com
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When you think of installing analytics, you probably reach for Google Analytics. And you wouldn’t be alone. The platform’s tight integration with SEO and the implication that using Google products is beneficial to ranking means that Google Analytics is the most commonly installed analytics solution globally.
Google Analytics isn’t a bad choice: it’s free, it’s fairly comprehensive, and it does indeed tie most SEO efforts up with a nice bow.
But Google Analytics is also slow, extremely bad for privacy — both yours and your users’ — and for many people, it’s too unwieldy, having grown organically over the years into a relatively complex UI.
Some alternatives are fast, privacy-friendly, and geared towards different specialisms. Today we’re rounding up the best…
Heap is an event-based analytics platform. That means you can tell not just how many people visited your site but what actions they took when they were there. This isn’t a unique proposition, but Heap is one of the best implementations.
Heap offers an auto-track tool, which is ideal for new installations because you can get up and running immediately and fine-tune the details later. That makes it great for startups, although it’s also the choice of major corporations like Microsoft.
Heap’s free plan includes 60k sessions per year and 12 months of data history, but when you outgrow that, the business plans start at $12,000/year.
ChartMogul is geared towards SaaS that offer subscription plans, staking a claim as the world’s first subscription data platform.
Services like Buffer and Webflow use ChartMogul to monitor their revenue and analyze the ROI of changes to their features, design, and user experience.
Ideally suited for startups, ChartMogul pricing is based on monthly recurring revenue; it has a free plan for up to $10,000 MMR; after that, pricing starts at $100/month.
Fathom is an awesome, privacy-first analytics solution. It offers a simple dashboard and is ideal for anyone looking for simple analytics information to verify business decisions.
Fathom is ideally suited to freelancers, or entrepreneurs with multiple projects, as it allows you to run multiple domains from a single account. Fathom is entirely cookieless, meaning you can ditch that annoying cookie notice. It’s GDPR, ePrivacy, PECR, CCPA, and COPPA compliant.
There’s a seven-day free trial; after that, Fathom starts at $14/month.
FullStory is designed to help you develop engaging online products with an emphasis on user experience.
FullStory is a set of tools, making it ideal for large in-house teams or in-house teams working with outside agencies or freelancers. It pitches itself as a single source of truth from which everyone from the marketing department to the database engineers can draw their insights, helping digital teams rapidly iterate by keeping everyone in the same loop.
FullStory uses AI to track and interpret unexpected events, from rage clicks to traffic spikes, and breaks those events down to a dollar-cost, so you can instantly see where your interventions will have the most impact.
There’s a free plan for up to 1k sessions per month; once you outgrow that, you need to talk to the sales team for a quote.
Amplitude has one of the most user-friendly dashboards on this list, with tons of power behind it. For project managers trying to make science-based decisions about future development, it’s a godsend.
The downside with Amplitude is that to make the most of its powerful data connections, you need to pump a lot of data in. For that reason, Amplitude is best suited to sites that already have a substantial volume of traffic — among those customers are Cisco and PayPal.
Amplitude provides a free plan, with its core analytics and up to 10m tracked actions per month. For premium plans, you have to contact their sales team for a quote.
Mixpanel is a little bit more than an analytics program, aiming to be a whole suite of web tools it has ventured into split testing and notifications.
Mixpanel is laser-focused on maximizing your sales funnel. One look at the dashboard, and you can see that Mixpanel, while very well designed, has too many features to present them simply; Mixpanel is ideally suited to agencies and in-house development teams with time to invest — you probably want to keep the CEO away from this one.
Mixpanel has a generous free plan for up to 100k monthly users, with its business plans starting at $25/month.
Mode is a serious enterprise-level solution for product intelligence and decision making.
Ideally suited to in-house teams, Mode allows you to monitor financial flow and output the results in investor-friendly reports. You can monitor your entire tech stack and, of course, understand how users are interacting with your product. Wondering who handles the analytics for Shopify? That would be Mode.
Mode has a free plan aimed at individuals, but this tool’s scope is really beyond freelancers, and the free plan’s only likely to appeal to high-price consultants and tech trouble-shooters. For the full business plan, you need to contact Mode’s sales team for a quote.
Microanalytics is a relatively new analytics program with a lightweight, privacy-focused approach.
Microanalytics provides a simple dashboard with acquisitions, user location, technology, and the all-important event tracking to monitor user behavior. Microanalytics is compliant with the web’s most stringent privacy laws, including GDPR, PECR, and CCPA. The tracking code is just 1kb in size, meaning that you’ll hardly notice its footprint in your stats.
Microanalytics is free for up to 10k pageviews/month; after that, the monthly plan starts at $9.
GoSquared is another suite of tools, this time aimed at SaaS. Its primary product is its analytics, but it also includes live chat, marketing tools, and a team inbox.
If you’re tired of comparing multiple tools to help make the most of your startup, GoSquared kills several birds with one stone. Perhaps most importantly, if you’re beginning to build a team and don’t have any engineers onboard yet, GoSquared has an award-winning support team and an idiot-proof setup process.
GoSquared has a free plan that’s fine for evaluating the suite and integrating data from day one. As you begin to grow, paid plans start at $40/month.
Segment is a little different from the other analytics tools on this list; Segment is a layer that sits between your site and your analytics. It integrates with many of the tools on this list.
There are several benefits to this approach. The main one is that different teams within your enterprise can access analytics data in a form that suits them — designers can access complex data, and management can stick to revenue flow. It also means that you can switch analytics programs with a single setting in Segment and even migrate historical data into new apps. If you’re an enterprise that wants to future-proof its customer intelligence gathering, Segment is worth considering.
Segment is trusted by some of the web’s best-known names, from IBM to Levis, and…ahem…Google.
Segment is free for up to 1k visitors per month, and after that, the team plan starts at $120/month.
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One of the few bright spots in 2020 has been the creativity companies and individuals alike have exhibited in dealing with what, at times, seemed to be overwhelming problems.
The world of web design was no different. Designers and agencies had to adapt and implement new color schemes or design new shopping experiences, which made some of the previous design trends not fit for the current design problems.
We’ll take a look at these newest design trends and the rationale behind them. As we do so, we’ll also take a look at some of BeTheme’s 600+ pre-built sites that have already put them to good use.
In years past, bolder color schemes were one of the hallmarks of web design trends. Their purpose was to quickly engage a visitor and prompt him or her to respond emotionally.
Given all the drama and turmoil we were subjected to through most of 2020, we’ve come to welcome the use of toned-down colors in marketing instead of the bolder, brasher, and more “in-your-face” color schemes.
Bellroy’s website puts toned-down colors to good use. This company’s product line of wallets, bags, and the like, are designed to keep people’s belongings organized, safe, and secure. A wild color scheme simply wouldn’t be fitting.
How, then, are brightly-colored products dealt with? Thanks to judicious uses of white space and background photos, this website still emphasizes a toned-down color palette.
The BeSpa pre-built website is another example of a color scheme that almost immediately puts the mind at ease.
Calm and soothing? Yes.
Boring? Definitely not.
Comfort and security are the emotional drivers in this example.
People confined to their homes because of Covid-based restrictions spent many more hours looking at their screens in 2020. Online programming began to take on the appearance of a reality show that blurred the boundaries between the real and the digital.
Whereas web designers tended in the past to rely on either photos or illustrations in their designs, these same designers have started to integrate these blurring effects into their designs, with results that range from amusing and quirky to highly informative.
Check out this example from fashion designer Constance Burke:
It’s not every day you see real models wearing hand-drawn fashion sketches. But it’s just one example of how the physical can be blended with the digital.
The BeSki pre-built site does the same blending of the two, but in a totally different way:
The sections’ designs switch from predominantly physical to largely digital and back again, an excellent approach that provides a maximum amount of useful information.
It’s also worth noting how snowbanks are effectively used to seamlessly transition from one section to the next.
More people spending more time at home has created a surge in online shopping. As a result, many online store owners are now feeling the effects of increased competition.
Consumers look for brands they believe they can trust. At the same time, they want their online shopping experiences to be as quick and painless as possible. They look for (and expect) quick and effective product search capabilities, helpful and effective product displays, one-page product descriptions, and the like.
Walgreen’s product page design is especially well-suited for 2021 ecommerce shoppers:
Everything shoppers usually need to know is presented above-the-fold. They can easily proceed to the next step or scroll down for reviews or additional product specifications.
BePestControl’s pre-built website uses a similar product design approach:
In this example, the main selling points are up-front and are kept short and sweet. The shopper can either hit the ‘Add to Cart’ button or look below the button for additional information.
In both examples, a visitor doesn’t have to mull over what step to take next since one of the design objectives is to make the shopping experience as easy and as satisfying as possible.
Once upon a time, video content was “the thing” to incorporate in a website. Hero background videos proved to be particularly engaging, and “how-to” videos presented much more useful information than illustrations or blocks of text could.
On the other hand, Auto-play videos, those that started on their own, all too often had a tendency to irritate rather than inform, especially when their content didn’t address a visitor’s immediate concern.
Thanks to Zoom and similar video platforms that came into widespread use in 2020 and to website designs that include video “Play” buttons, users have become much more comfortable with the medium. As an example, Shoppers have been given total control over if or when they want to view a given video.
This is the design approach Payoneer has taken:
The white “Pay” button is impossible to miss, and while it is designed to encourage a visitor to watch a testimonial, doing so is completely optional.
The BeOptics pre-built website cleverly slips in a video play option as well:
In this example, when visitors hover over the “See More” button, it lets them know that they have the option to watch the video if they want to learn more.
There are various ways in which products are organized or showcased in brick and mortar businesses to instill trust. Helpful and friendly staff also contribute to instilling trust.
Some of these trust-builders are easily incorporated into eCommerce designs. Others, though more difficult to fit in, can usually be satisfactorily addressed.
Digital trust builders can include.
Put, trust-building content will beat hard-sell techniques every time, especially if you would like your customer base to include referred and repeat customers.
Omaze, for example, gives people entries for prizes based on their donations while at the same time highlighting the good things it and its donors have brought about.
To help build trust, the site devotes space to highlighting publications that have featured Omaze and the work it has done and is doing.
Plus, it puts data visualization and non-profit testimonials into play to give visitors an added insight into what is going on behind the scenes:
As you can see, it doesn’t have to be difficult to incorporate genuine trust-building content into your website designs.
BePortfolio is a great example of how you might go about doing this for a portfolio site, whether it’s your own or a site for a client:
The home page alone has plenty of space for including trust-building content:
And it can only get better as a visitor moves through the site, but only if you’ve chosen to make that happen.
We’re not suggesting that you throw the baby out with the bathwater, but some trends will need to be discarded to enable you to adjust to a new normal. Other 2020 design trends, like minimalism and headline topography, are likely to remain popular for years to come.
New trends that incorporate calming color palettes, image blending, more efficient eCommerce UX designs, user-controlled video, and trust-building elements should give your customers the feeling of comfort and security they will be seeking in 2021.
If you want to implement some or all of these new trends in your 2021 website designs, BeTheme’s 600+ pre-built sites make doing so an easy task.
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This is the eighth article documenting what I’ve learned from a series of 13 Trailhead Live video sessions on Modern App Development on Salesforce and Heroku. In these articles, we’re focusing on how to combine Salesforce with Heroku to build an “eCars” app—a sales and service application for a fictitious electric car company (“Pulsar”) that allows users to customize and buy cars, service techs to view live diagnostic info from the car, and more. In case you missed my previous article, you can find the link here.
Just as a quick reminder: I’ve been following this Trailhead Live video series to brush up and stay current on the latest app development trends on these platforms that are key for my career and business. I’ll be sharing each step for building the app, what I’ve learned, and my thoughts from each session. These series reviews are both for my own edification as well as for others who might benefit from this content.
We’re going to try something a little different this month; with this roundup of tools and resources for designers, we’re going to pick a few of our favorites and group everything else in a manner that makes it even easier to find elements that will work for you, and your projects, right now.
Here’s what’s new for designers this month…
Pika is a new Mac app that is an open-source color picker. It helps you find color swatches on-screen, saving time and design headaches. Plus, it’s packed with bonuses such as the ability to confirm accessibility compliance for colors, compact size and style, easy to access from your desktop, and format-friendly with plenty of color code options.
Iconduck is a searchable database of more than 100,000 icons in one place. (No more searching various marketplaces!) The goal of the project is to make open-source icons and illustrations more accessible. So, everything you find here is free! The site does all the heavy lifting for you by collecting icon sets, tagging them, and making them searchable.
Descript is a premium tool that eliminates some of the intimidation factors with audio and video editing. With a design that functions as a word document and allows you to transcribe, record the screen, publish, and edit, all with some cool AI features.
Persona is an all-in-one identity infrastructure that allows you to collect, verify, manage, and decide customer identities from a single dashboard. Everything is fully automated, and most users can be up and running in about 10 minutes. The premium tool does have a free version for small-scale verifications.
Peekalink turns standard links into rich content that users will be delighted to share and engage in. And it’s easy to use. Just send a request to the API with a link and get a response back to use, including a rich link for your project.
LinkAce is an open-source and self-hosted archive to store and organize links that you want to save. You can search thanks to tags and lists, and all of the content is available thanks to automated backups and monitoring. There’s a demo you can try before installing it yourself.
Formality is a WordPress plugin that helps you make forms a little bit easier. It’s made to work with the Gutenberg-based form builder with a single block format to control the form. The plugin has a theme-agnostic design that works with any layout style and includes customizations to make it feel a little more personal.
Wondercall is an embeddable video call system for any website or app. You can make calls and schedule them with a widget you can embed right into your design.
The Editor X website builder is out of beta and ready for mainstream use. The platform is designed for designers and agencies to create websites collaboratively and quicker. Features include live commenting, roles and permissions, and shared design libraries. Plus, the platform offers code-free interactions.
Shareful is a Mac app that makes the system share menu more powerful. You can copy, save as, and open indirectly from the system share menu.
Supercons is a giant set of icons in React. They are all open-source, and there are plenty of choices to help you propel projects forward.
Plumpy Icons are packed with style. The set of icons has a fun design, comes in duotone colors, and scales to any size. Plus, there are more than 4,000 icons in the collection. There are free and paid options depending on the file type and use.
Noise Planets is a fun look at plotting random points in a circle to create amazing art pieces. You can generate fun shapes and textures and even animate your results with the tutorial and code snippets’ help.
CSS Polygon Shapes are generated using CSS-doodle and clip-path. You can go in and make adjustments to customize shapes further and use them in your website projects.
Mutsuacen is a little app that lets you create animated and interactive drawings. There’s a lot of potential with this tool if you have some true drawing chops, but it not; it’s just fun to play with. Create a doodle or sketch and export.
Text Warping – Animated is a fun effect pen from Lokesh Dhakar. It feels funky while leaving text pretty readable. Play with it for sure.
Gazpacho is a fun and flexible premium font family with 14 styles from thin to heavy italic. It’s a highly readable serif with a wider stance and great curves.
Stay Home is a simple, line-style all caps font. It has a limited character set but could have some fun applications.
Dogmeal Figure is an almost silly novelty typeface with dog faces and paw prints in the character set. It might make a fun option for a kids’ project.
Haster is a futuristic-style slab with a limited character set. It does have shapes and lines with a lot of impact for display use.
Covid Pandemic Lockdown is an interesting novelty font with thick lines and a brush-dot style. While it probably won’t read well small, it could be fun as a display option.
Valeria is a simple typeface that’s a little wide but has a nice shape and structure. It includes upper- and lowercase letters.
Cornellia is a beautiful script that has amazing letter combinations for use with long swashes and tails. It can add extra elegance to almost any design project instantly.
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You might have quite often encountered a situation where you need to have dynamic « keys » in a key-value pair.
Every week users submit incredible stories to our sister-site Webdesigner News. Our colleagues sift through it, sorting the wheat from the chaff, and then post it for us to relish.
If you want to keep up with the latest news for web designers, the best way is to check out the Webdesigner News site. However, if you missed a day, here’s a useful compilation of the top curated stories from the past week. Enjoy!
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