This article is part of a series. For the previous article, see Moving an App Connect Flow Using MQ onto Containers.
One of the most common integration points is a database, and App Connect is well suited to connecting to a significant variety of datastores. One of the most common protocols used to connect to databases is ODBC, so that is the example that we will work through in this post.
The purpose of a website is to reach new customers and keep current ones engaged. Therefore, customer-first should be at the top of your list for design features. After all, without your clients, your business won’t grow or succeed.
Customer-first has been a buzzword for a few years now. In a nutshell, it’s easy to imagine what customer-first design means. The needs of consumers come before anything else. However, the concept isn’t quite as simple in practice. A lot of nuances enter the equation.
Just what does it mean to have a customer-first web design? What are the must-haves to reach users on their level and keep their attention for the long haul?
Embracing quality customer experiences has driven loyalty for as long as anyone can remember. However, we now live in a time of uncertainty, and when people leave companies on a dime if they’re dissatisfied with any aspect. So you must hit the high notes on every song – your website is your purest online persona and must engage users and keep them entertained.
Whether you embrace causes that matter to your customers and share information on them or tweak your design to meet accessibility guidelines, many factors come into play with a customer-centric design.
In a recent report, researchers found that about 88% of company leaders feel customer engagement impacts revenue. You can’t control every variable, but you can ensure your website hits all the strong points for a customer-first web design that grabs them and keeps them on your page.
Here are our favorite tips to create a customer-first approach. You may already be doing some of these things. Pick and choose what makes the most sense for your business model. Even small changes can have a big impact.
Before creating a website centered around your customers’ needs, you must know who they are. What are the demographics of your typical clients? Survey them and find out what their needs and expectations are. How can you best help them?
You may also want to survey them about your website. What’s missing that might help them? Is there anything they love? What do they hate? The more you know, the better your design can match their expectations. Create buyer personas based on their preferences.
At the same time, buyers will sometimes say one thing but actually feel another way. No one is quite sure why people do this when being surveyed. One way around that issue is to do some A/B testing to see how they actually feel about various changes. Do they respond the way you thought? What other adjustments need to be made?
Different industries trend toward various hues. For example, businesses in the banking industry trend toward blues and occasionally reds. Blue elicits trust from users and has a calming effect. On the other hand, the fashion industry might tap into brighter shades, such as lime green. Think about what colors people expect in your industry, and then find your color palette.
Each hue has its emotional impact. For example, red is a color of power and can elicit excitement in the viewer. Choose your shades accordingly to get the most emotional punch possible.
One of the best ways to improve your site over time to match the needs and preferences of your audience is by allowing feedback. Add reviews, place a feedback form in your footer, and even send out requests for feedback to your mailing list.
It’s also a good idea to find a mentor who has been successful at running a business. Ask them to look at your site and give you advice. You might also enlist the help of a marketing professional.
Have you heard of Jakob’s Law? The rule of thumb states that people prefer common design patterns they’re most familiar with. So when they see a pattern they know, such as a navigation bar layout, it boosts their mood and improves their memory of the site.
When making edits, don’t make significant changes. Instead, implement minor adjustments over time to give your followers a chance to acclimate to the shift.
If you want users to feel wowed by your page and engage, you have to limit their choices. Add in too many options, and they may not know where to go first.
Start by choosing an objective for the page. Cut anything that doesn’t point the user toward the goal. Ideally, you’d have a little info, an image, and a call to action (CTA) button. However, this may vary, depending on where your buyer is in the sales funnel and how much information they need to decide to go from browser to customer.
Recent reports indicate about 90% of people use mobile devices to go online at times. With phones gaining greater capabilities and 5G bringing faster speeds to communities, expect people to use their mobile devices even more frequently for internet browsing.
Making sure your site translates well on smaller screens makes sense for your company and for your customers. Be sure to test everything. Click through all links. Fill in forms. Ensure images and text auto-adjust to the correct size, so people don’t have to scroll endlessly.
Like most businesses, you probably have several buyer personas as you segment your audience. Don’t just create a single home page and expect it to fulfill the purpose of every reader. Instead, create unique pages for each persona to best meet their needs.
Make sure each landing page speaks in the natural language patterns of your specific audience. Think about the unique needs of each group. How do their pain points differ? How can you best meet their needs?
People are busy. They work, have families, and might visit your site on the 15-minute break they get in the afternoon. Most consumers want the information they need to decide and don’t want to dilly-dally around with other things.
Place the essential headlines and info they need above the fold, so they see it first. Make it as readable as possible by using headings and subheadings. Add in a few bullet points. People also absorb information easier in video format, so add a video highlighting your product’s or service’s main benefits.
You should also place a CTA button above the fold if it makes sense for your overall design. Keep in mind people may have visited and already read some of the information. Some users return just to sign up and want to find the CTA quickly.
Look at your site through the eyes of your audience. What works well? What needs to be adjusted? Over time, you’ll develop a customer-first web design that speaks to those most likely to buy from you. Then, keep making changes and tweaking your site until it hits the perfect balance for your customers.
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This month we’re seeing websites that are very conscious of the design trends they’re following. Designers are making conscious choices to adopt styles, and opting out when it doesn’t suit the site. What we end up with is a crop of sophisticated, well-designed websites that use style as a technique to further their aims.
Here are the sites that caught our eye this month, enjoy!
Seen uses conversations to explore themes surrounding ethnicity and racism in creative fields. Displaying these conversations as online chats creates a sense of intimacy.
There is a lot of color in Baboon to the Moon’s product shots, so the rest of the site is kept simple, with good clear navigation too.
There is a strong sense of luxury to digital agency Fleava’s glossy brochure portfolio site.
This site for Baunfire digital agency’s creative networking event is bold, personable, and fun.
There is more than a touch of Wes Anderson’s style to this site for Laesk Kombucha; somewhere just out of sight is Bill Murray in a red beanie.
Viso Haus doesn’t do anything hugely groundbreaking here with their brutalist-style portfolio site, but they do it very well.
Artist/programmer Mario Carillo has opted for a minimal approach, allowing the work to do the talking.
There is a warmth to Symbol’s site, created by the color tones and combinations used here.
Interior architects Contekst favor a brutalist visual style for their site, but with some nice little animated extras.
No, you haven’t missed the font lover’s answer to Comic Con: the Arcane Type Fair is fictitious and a clever showcase for Rain Foundry’s Conacher typeface.
With lovely scrolling animation and soothing colors, this site for Capsul’in Pro manages to turn coffee pods into objects of desire.
Random illustrations and a quirky display type add character to Wanderful Chalet’s brochure site.
Bricks made from rubbish don’t sound like the most exciting thing ever, but this site evokes a lovely clean feel: like an old building gleaming in the sunlight after all the soot has been scraped off it.
Lazarus Forms is an API for AI document processing. This site succeeds in being transparent in its explanation without being overly technical and pleasing visually.
An excellent example of masonry combined with variable scrolling speeds creates tension in digital artist Nathan Riley’s portfolio.
Sometimes the simplest things, like this full-screen image transition for Evi O. Studio’s portfolio, can be so well done it’s an absolute pleasure to scroll through.
Sundo has created SMOTSpots – smart sunscreen dispensers for public areas. The tone of the site is suitably utilitarian with a soft edge.
The Blue experience from Rossinavi luxury boat builders is a pleasing immersive microsite showcasing their new hybrid-electric boats.
This site is an excellent example of how to make a single product commerce site that doesn’t feel lacking in content.
Educated Guess is a podcast for creatives by creatives. The accompanying website is pleasing to use, easy to navigate, and allows the user to focus on the content.
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People often experience network or internet connectivity issues while traveling, most often when they are on a subway. But not only in this particular case — one can encounter such issues anywhere where the network connectivity is poor. Browsing a mobile application in those situations can lead to a poor and frustrating user experience if it doesn’t possess the ability to work in the offline state. This is where the role of offline-first apps comes into play.
Users carry a strong negative emotion for apps that are not optimized for low connectivity. And do you know latency is the number one reason why people in the U.S. decide to bounce from mobile pages? Though the stats don’t reveal whether it is when they are stuck in a low network area or it is the application’s slow nature despite a good network, the point that we want to put stress on is that a mobile app’s inability to load quickly can leave users highly dissatisfied and compel them to abandon the application. This, along with an increase in churn rate, can result in revenue loss as well. This has pushed « appreneurs » toward adopting an offline-first approach or building offline-first apps to tackle limited connectivity issues.
L’environnement de travail d’aujourd’hui est plus que jamais différent de ce que nous avons déjà rencontré auparavant. En raison des changements monumentaux que la pandémie a introduits, les entreprises luttent à la fois contre les défis liés à la rétention des talents et contre un déficit de compétences numériques qui ne cesse de croître. Il est devenu de plus en plus évident que l’éducation et la formation doivent évoluer avec ce contexte.
Au sein de l’organisation SAP Learning, nous nous efforçons constamment à repenser la manière dont la formation peut aider nos clients, partenaires et collaborateurs à suivre le rythme.
Voici trois façons de réinventer l’apprentissage afin que chacun dans notre écosystème ait les compétences dont il a besoin pour réussir.
La technologie a considérablement amélioré l’accès à l’apprentissage pour les communautés sous-représentées, ainsi que pour les étudiants qui débutent leur carrière. Qu’il s’agisse d’une conférence vidéo, d’un e-learning ou d’un exercice simulé, les connaissances peuvent être accessibles à l’échelle mondiale presque sans frais. Il en va de même pour l’éducation dans le monde des logiciels d’entreprise, un espace qui offre des opportunités de carrière importantes.
Nous voulons désormais créer des opportunités qui rendent les formations attrayantes et accessibles à tous. C’est pourquoi nous avons facilité l’accès à nos programmes globaux pour atteindre les étudiants et les apprenants susceptibles de rencontrer des barrières aux opportunités. En éliminant le coût de la formation et en réduisant le besoin d’activités en présentiel, nous continuons à développer notre communauté d’apprenants qui qui peuvent réaliser leurs aspirations dans l’écosystème SAP..
Nous sommes ravis d’avoir atteint plus de 150 000 apprenants actifs sur le site SAP Learning depuis son lancement en novembre, avec une croissance d’environ 2 000 participants par jour. Cette stratégie rapporte aux étudiants. En complément, grâce à des programmes financés pour les demandeurs d’emploi tels que People to Work by SAP, nous pouvons voir des évolutions de carrière avec le placement de plus de 80 % des participants dans de nouveaux emplois après avoir terminé la formation..
À mesure que SAP Learning se développe, nous sommes impatients de continuer à nous améliorer et à nous adapter aux besoins de ces communautés.
Alors que nous élargissons notre communauté aux apprenants de divers horizons et niveaux de formation, nous observons que certains cherchent à améliorer les compétences requises pour leurs rôles actuels, tandis que d’autres cherchent à franchir la prochaine ou la première étape de leur carrière. Dans les deux cas, une approche spécifique basée sur les compétences peut aider les apprenants à se concentrer sur des domaines de développement spécifiques, ce qui leur fait gagner du temps et leur permet d’avoir une expérience personnalisée. Selon un livre blanc d’IBM, les technologies d’e-learning peuvent augmenter l’engagement des collaborateurs de 20 %.
Associée à des certifications, la formation basée sur les compétences permet aux apprenants externes de faire valoir de nouveaux ensembles de compétences auprès de leurs employeurs actuels et potentiels, et d’améliorer leur employabilité. En interne SAP, nous adoptons une approche similaire, car la compréhension des compétences de notre personnel nous permet de réaliser des investissements stratégiques en soutenant nos employés à acquérir de nouvelles compétences, nous permettant ainsi de développer des talents uniques pour l’avenir.
Cette approche basée sur les compétences et la manière avec laquelle nous formons nos employés et notre écosystème a été reconnue par les prix Learning Elite 2022 des Directeurs formation : SAP a été classé parmi les lauréats du Silver Award qui reconnaissent les meilleurs programmes de formation et développement à travers le monde.
Personne n’apprend exactement de la même manière, mais la technologie peut servir de passerelle vers de meilleures expériences d’apprentissage pour tous. Grâce aux outils numériques, nous pouvons atteindre les apprenants où qu’ils soient et quand ils souhaitent apprendre. Nous pouvons penser au-delà du cadre de la classe traditionnelle et proposer des méthodes d’apprentissage alternatives plus accessibles et abordables, à destination d’un public plus large et plus global d’apprenants. Nous pouvons rendre les parcours d’apprentissage encore plus personnalisables et adaptables pour répondre réellement aux objectifs individuels.
Ces besoins varient: une récente enquête d’Anthology a révélé que plus de quatre étudiants sur cinq (82 %) souhaitent qu’au moins une partie de leurs cours se déroulent en distanciel, et deux sur cinq (41 %) préfèrent un apprentissage entièrement en ligne sans aucun élément en présentiel.
Nous savons que certains de nos clients auront toujours besoin d’une formation en présentiel hautement interactive. Mais nous savons aussi, que si nous voulons combler la pénurie de compétences SAP et développer notre écosystème de professionnels formés sur nos solutions, l’apprentissage numérique a un rôle essentiel à jouer.
Notre engagement à garantir des cours et des certifications largement accessibles a fait de SAP Learning un leader dans trois rapports IDC MarketScape, sur les Services de formation informatique 2021 en Europe et aux États-Unis et en APeJ (Asie-Pacifique avec exclusion du Japon) en 2022. Ces évaluations des fournisseurs couvrent une évaluation globale des capacités et des stratégies des acteurs du monde numérique de la formation, et reconnaissent SAP en tant que leader grâce à notre vaste portefeuille de produits et à nos offres de formation hybrides, entre autres facteurs.
Bien que nous soyons ravis de voir l’impact de nos parcours de formation dans le domaine de la formation continue, et dans un esprit d’amélioration constante, nous pensons qu’il y a toujours de la place pour de la croissance et du développement. Nous accueillons avec joie les commentaires sur ce que nous pourrions améliorer ou ajouter à nos programmes tout au long de votre parcours d’apprentissage avec SAP.
Pour partager votre expérience de formation ou faire part de vos commentaires,
rendez-vous sur le site SAP Learning.
Max Wessel est Chief Learning Officer à SAP.
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Two weeks ago, you started a web design agency. Last week you began to define your agency by choosing clients, setting red lines, and writing your elevator pitch.
This week, we will implement some practical solutions before problems occur. Remember one task per day; it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
In the rush of excitement surrounding a new project, it’s too easy to skip the preliminaries and jump into work. Before you know it, you’re halfway through the job, and it’s too late to set terms.
Your terms of service document is a formal statement of the terms under which you agree to work. This document is best prepared by a legal professional with experience in your jurisdiction, but you can write it yourself with a bit of guidance. Fortunately, as a web design agency, you’re not supplying physical products, which simplifies the document considerably.
You should include a statement limiting your liability. You need to assert your intellectual property rights. Unfortunately, you also need to include details of what happens when a client fails to pay an invoice.
Write the document in clear, friendly language. Don’t use marketing speak, and do not try to disguise anything onerous. A good client will respect you for being upfront in a professional manner.
Your terms of service should be on your website and sent to potential clients alongside any quote — I know some people who send their terms in the same PDF as the quote, so the client can’t overlook them.
Project management is probably the most crucial skill you’ll have to master. Meeting deadlines, bringing in enough work to cover the bills, and not pulling all-nighters depend on effective project management.
A huge and ever-growing number of apps promise to help you with project management. We have a list here of some of the best. However, if you already have a tool you use to manage your work that you’re comfortable with, consider sticking with it. Do not fall back on a notes app or a pen and paper.
Remember: organizing your work days is not billable. The more you can automate this process, the better.
Up until now, we’ve deliberately done one thing per day. Today, we will do two because they’re so closely related.
There are all kinds of business documents that pass money back and forth between companies, for example, purchase orders or credit notes. For a small web design agency, you’ll need two: a quote document and an invoice document.
Invoices are documents requesting payment and providing the details for payment. Quotes are previews of an expected invoice.
Some people like to have a receipt document that they send out to acknowledge payment. However, in my experience, sending a hand-written email is better; it’s an excellent opportunity to personalize your communication and foster a good relationship.
There are legal requirements that vary by jurisdiction, but an invoice typically includes: your trading name; the invoice number — an incrementing number code; your tax code if you have one; your address; the time the client has to pay — “Net 14,” meaning the total amount within 14 days is standard; the date issued; the client’s name and address; a list of services provided together with the rate for each service and the total; the pre-tax total; the total amount of tax; the total; and most importantly a way of paying.
Back on day two, you contacted your tax department to determine your liabilities. You may or may not have to charge sales tax or VAT. Always include the amount of tax on your invoice, even if the total is $0, so it’s clear whether or not it has been charged.
A quote document is virtually identical to an invoice, except that you remove the payment requests. You should also add a note stipulating how long the quote is valid — 3 months is standard.
Plenty of services will create these documents for you as part of an accounting system. For example, Xero, FreshBooks, or Bloom. Even PayPal will allow you to send invoices. If you prefer, you can create your own quotes and invoices and send them as PDFs — this option is best if you want total control over your documents’ design, but it will take longer, and it’s worryingly easy to make a mistake.
Start today by researching social media accounts. Look at the list of target businesses you made on day eight; which social media channel do they use the most? For example, if the niche you picked on day three is restaurants, they probably use Instagram. If you chose retirement communities, they probably use Facebook.
Once you have a clear picture of your clients’ channels, pick one (yes, 1) and register an account.
Social media is a significant drain on your time and provides considerably less return on investment than you might expect. So, choose one service that your prospective clients use and start building your profile. It’s far better to invest your time and effort in a place your clients will notice you than to spread yourself too thin.
It’s another two-task day. We’ve grouped these together because domains and hosting are frequently rented together.
Back on day nine, you selected your tech stack. You’ll be building your own site with the technology you offer clients, so it’s important to ensure your hosting enables this. If you intend to develop with WordPress, you need WordPress hosting. If you intend to build with Wix, you need a Wix account. If you’re planning on offering any kind of web app, you probably need Netlify.
Whatever you choose, choose something appropriate for your tech stack. The only exception is if you plan to specialize in a niche service like Shopify, which is entirely inappropriate for an agency portfolio.
There are endless debates over whether or not you should register a domain with the same company that hosts your site. Everyone seems to know someone who knows someone who registered a domain, and then something improbable happened to cause them to lose the domain that wouldn’t have happened if they’d hosted separately.
Back in the real world, simplicity is a gift you give yourself. Choose a reputable company, register a good domain, host in the same place, and let their support sort out your DNS for you — many good hosts will even give you free domain rental for a year to entice you to take up their hosting.
Good hosting is reliable, with plenty of room to grow. If it can be cheap too, that’s a bonus. It’s common to start with bottom-end(ish) shared hosting and expand to a VPS (Virtual Private Server) at some point in the future.
Despite the massive growth in messaging apps over the last decade, email is still your most important business tool.
Depending on the hosting you set up yesterday, email inboxes may have been included. If not, you’ll need to set up a separate email provider.
You’ll need a general email address. Traditionally this has been info@, but hi@, hey@, hello@, and ciao@ are a little more friendly.
You need a personal email address that’s just for you. For example, I use ben@.
You also need a separate account for finances that you can use for invoicing and services like Stripe and PayPal. accounts@ or billing@ are fine.
Finally, you’ll need to set up a catch-all email forwarder for all the times people guess your email, mistype your email or assume you used info@. Forward those emails to your general address.
Once that’s done, set up an email signature for each account. Include your logo, contact details, and the social media address you set up a couple of days ago.
Finally, update your email address with your hosting company, social media account, and business accounts.
That’s it for this week. So shut down your machine, go outside, ride a bike, go on a hike, learn to skateboard, and relax with family and friends.
We’re approaching the sharp end of this process, and next week will be busy, so do whatever you do to recharge your batteries.
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Milvus is an open-source vector database for AI applications. It provides a variety of installation methods, including building from source code and installing Milvus with Docker Compose/Helm/APT/YUM/Ansible. Users can choose one of the installation methods depending on their operating systems and preferences. However, there are many data scientists and AI engineers in the Milvus community who work with Python and yearn for a much simpler installation method than the currently available ones.
Therefore, we released embedded Milvus, a user-friendly Python version, along with Milvus 2.1 to empower more Python developers in our community. This article introduces what embedded Milvus is and provides instructions on how to install and use it.
Learning how to design an MVP webpage or website could be one of the best things you can do as a site creator in today’s digital world.
In a fast-paced landscape, where customer preferences and technology are constantly changing, most companies don’t have time to dedicate months or years to each web project. The longer you take to complete your website, the more likely your creation will be outdated by the time you hit “publish.” That’s why countless creators are beginning to take a different approach.
To avoid wasting time, money, and effort on something that doesn’t deliver a significant return on investment, designers are now building “Minimum Viable Products,” or “MVPs.”
Here’s what you need to know about creating your MVP webpage.
Typically, the “MVP” development process is most common in the app or software creation world. It refers to when a developer builds the simplest version of a technology capable of achieving specific goals. For instance, if a company wanted to create an ecommerce app, they would design a simple tool capable of listing products, enabling payments, and tracking orders.
After launching the MVP product, the company or developer would check to ensure it had the right impact on the target market and generated positive results. Using feedback and analytics, the developer would then begin to add new features one at a time.
MVP design aims to ensure you’re developing the best, most valuable product for your audience while getting your solution to market as quickly as possible.
The same strategy in MVP app and software design can also apply to website creation. Rather than building a highly complicated website with multiple features straightaway, the designer would focus on creating a single page equipped with the essential elements.
For instance, instead of building an entire site for your online course, you may develop a single-page website where customers can learn about the system, sign up, and pay for their membership. The great thing about an MVP web page is it allows companies to start advertising their solution, product, or service quickly, with the minimum initial investment.
Creating an MVP web page is similar to designing any Minimum Viable Product. Throughout the project, the focus will be on keeping the development process simple while collecting as much feedback as possible.
Here’s how you’d get started with an MVP web page.
Planning is an important stage in any web design project. It’s particularly crucial in the MVP landscape, where you need to define the most critical features of your webpage or website to ensure it’s “viable” for your needs. The initial planning stage can sometimes be the lengthiest part of the process, depending on the amount of research you need to do.
For the most part, web designers and companies will begin by conducting market research. This means examining crucial concepts intended to drive your strategy, such as:
The key to MVP web page planning is ensuring you look holistically at your project without thinking too far ahead. The site you create should be capable of scaling and expanding in the future, but it shouldn’t have too many features from day one.
Once you’ve done your research and formed the foundations of your plan, it’s time to list all the features your MVP web page needs to have. Unfortunately, this is where the process can get a little complicated. It’s easy to start adding capabilities and components that aren’t necessary to make your site more exciting or competitive.
As worrying as it can feel to release a very basic web page, remember your focus is on rapid growth and development. With this in mind, concentrate on narrowing your feature lists down into:
Next, you’ll need to decide how to build your web page. There are several options available to today’s designers. An open-source solution is usually the best route for designers who need to create something specific from scratch. However, if the factor that makes your solution “viable” is unique, you may need access to code to bring your idea to life.
Alternatively, if you’re building a basic webpage capable of something like collecting customer email addresses or facilitating transactions, you might be able to use an off-the-shelf tool. CMS services for web designers can reduce the work and expense involved in creating a minimum viable product.
For instance, you might use a tool like Wix or Squarespace to edit a pre-existing template and simply drag-and-drop the features you need into the right places. On the other hand, if you’re planning on adding more functionality to your site down the line, it’s worth checking if any builder you will use has the right level of flexibility. Many tools will allow you access to code, advanced features, and essential module-based building functions.
One of the essential parts of an MVP workflow is feedback. When you roll out your MVP, you’ll be looking for insights, guidance, and analytics to help you decide what your next steps are going to be. As a result, MVP workflows are based heavily on experimentation.
This means you’re going to need the right analytical tools in place to track crucial information. You can implement tools for collecting customer feedback directly. It’s also worth having a system in place for tracking metrics like:
While Google Analytics is one of the most popular tools for collecting insights in the MVP website design world, various other options are available. You can even find tools with in-built heatmaps to see how people navigate your site more effectively.
It’s also worth having A/B testing components in place. This will allow you to test the different “new” features you add to your web pages over time and examine how they influence your conversions and support your goals. For example, you can use A/B testing to explore the impact of everything from CTA button colors to webpage copy and offers.
In the fast-paced web development and design world, the old-fashioned and slow approach to designing web pages is growing increasingly less common. Instead, an MVP strategy may be the best bet for companies looking to go to market faster, collect insights from their target audience, and accelerate growth.
Though getting used to this design strategy initially can be challenging, it can save you significant time, resources, and money in the long term.
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Continuing from part 2, let’s start this article with a bit of context first (and if you don’t like reading text, you can skip this introduction, and go directly to the section below where I discuss pieces of code).
The idea of the thread is that a process can have many tiny processes within itself. These small processes can share the memory space that a process acquires. These little processes are called « threads. » So the bottom line is that threads are independent execution environments in the CPU and share the same memory space. That allows them faster memory access and better performance.
Web design is often stagnant because designers look at the same work and follow the same trends. Unfortunately, algorithms promote work that is liked, and designers produce content to get likes, which leads to a self-feeding cycle.
We’ve been talking about the dribbblization of design for years, but Behance is just as guilty of promoting and encouraging homogenous design.
It’s not that Dribbble and Behance don’t have value; they are both excellent resources for designers. But they’re victims of their own success, and it’s healthier for them, designers, and the industry if we broaden our sources of design inspiration.
And so, today, we’re presenting this list of the best places to find design inspiration for web designers that aren’t Dribbble or Behance. (OK, you can check them out too, if you really want to!)
Awwwards is the top site for web design inspiration. The best agencies in the world post here, and a ‘Site of the Day’ award is a coveted accolade. So if you’re looking for design inspiration, this should be your first stop.
Admire The Web is an excellent collection of curated sites. It’s more selective than sites like Awwwards, so you don’t have to dig through so much to find the best web design.
One Page Love is one of the best resources for designers seeking inspiring new ideas. It’s devoted to one-pagers, which means it leans towards apps, tech start-ups, and smaller independent projects.
Godly is another excellent collection of web design inspiration. Godley uses animated thumbnails, so you can get a sense of a site before you look at it in detail. As such, it’s perfect for animated landing pages.
Hoverstat.es is a collection of curated websites that often finds little gems other sites miss. Unlike most roundups, it doesn’t go into much detail on each site, and new sites are infrequent, but it’s always worth a browse.
Siteinspire is one of the most established design inspiration sites. The collection is carefully divided into different styles; if you find your own site listed, you can add your contact details.
Land-book is a curated collection of the best sites on the web. The site does a great job of presenting screenshots clearly, and the similar sites feature is great for browsing a particular mood.
Savee is a fantastic site for browsing all kinds of design inspiration. It’s like Pinterest for designers as it leans towards art direction and photography. It’s easy to scan for mood boards.
UIJar is a nicely designed collection of hand-picked websites. Unlike most other sites on this list, UIJar also features a collection of branding that’s great for identity designers.
Brutalist Websites is the perfect inspiration site if you’re a fan of the Brutalist design trend. There are plenty of designs that show why Brutalism is so popular right now, but the site itself is probably short-lived.
Minimal Gallery is a collection of sites that embrace minimalism. Like Brutalist Websites, the quality of the collection is very high, but the site’s lifespan is probably short-lived thanks to being tied to one trend.
Ello is a platform for showcasing excellent design work. It’s solid on illustration and artwork. There’s also a great deal of photography on show. You’ll also find regular opportunities tied to creative briefs.
DeviantArt is still the largest, and arguably the best, showcase for illustration, with dozens of styles from Anime to classicism. It’s easy to lose a few hours browsing DeviantArt.
Figma Community is a collection of the best work from the Figma community. But you don’t need to be a Figma user to grab some inspiration from the UI work on show.
Lapa is a collection of 5000+ landing pages. The collection is headhunted from around the web, so if you only have time to check out one site, Lapa could be a good choice.
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