SpyreStudios - Design and Development Magazine

Is there anyone in the design community who truly abhors freebies? Perhaps the Grinch and Scrooge McDuck but I’m not sure their opinions count. Also they’re cartoons. But generally speaking freebies are excellent for crafting swift mockups or learning how to design your own graphics from scratch. Professional designers can make a name for themselves […]

Penmanship practice can go a long way towards understanding traditional typography. Yet when it comes to digital typography the subject gets more confined and particular. Granted there are plenty of tips & tricks for improving typography which you can follow and learn. But ultimately the greatest way to learn anything is by diving head-first into […]

Users often feel quite divisive on the subject of sliding navbars. It has also become a sizable topic of debate amongst designers. Yet it seems that aside from ongoing quarrels the fixed heading navbar is here to stay. It’s an easy technique to recreate and it can be designed in such a wide array of […]

Web development has taken a turn towards more candid and fluid information. More people are willing to release free open source code just to help the community and other developers working on similar projects. But aside from free code samples there are dozens of handy webapps, resources, tools, and programs built to enhance the frontend […]

Can you imagine a world without mobile applications? Well considering they’ve only been around for a decade you probably can. But just the idea feels quite strange since much of our modern world is balanced in the power of smartphone devices. Our schedules, diets, to-do lists, and a whole lot more revolves around modern touch-based […]

The Internet is all about people. Websites are designed as information hubs and interactive applications catering directly towards people. So it should be natural to assume that designers and developers want to fix up troubling issues within the user experience. Unfortunately it seems like this process has fallen to the wayside for a number of […]