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Movie Poll Concept Free Photoshop File

Ishu — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 11:09:18 +0000

Please follow this link for the psd-

https://dribbble.com/shots/2385963-Movie-Poll-Concept-Free-PSD

Resources for designing high converting landing pages

Ishu — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 05:25:12 +0000

Designing a landing page is a challenging job, as it requires more than JUST DESIGNING GOOD GRAPHICS. At the end of the day what the product marketer or product owner needs is a high converting landing page. There are various do’s and dont’s that applies while designing a landing page. After hours of surfing through internet, I found some really interesting resources that varies from teaching you to start designing a perfect landing page to techniques of creating high converting ones’.

Here goes your resources to design a high-converting landing page-

1. The 5 Essential Elements of a Winning Landing Page

The 5 Essential Elements of a Winning Landing Page

2. 7 Key Design Tips for High-Converting Landing Pages

7 Key Design Tips for High-Converting Landing Pages

3. How To Use Landing Pages to Increase Internet Sales

How To Use Landing Pages to Increase Internet Sales

4. Landing Page Best Practices

landing page best practices

5. 10 ways to design a landing page that sells

10 ways to design a landing page that sells

6. Anatomy Of A High Converting Landing Page

Anatomy Of A High Converting Landing Page

7. Elements of a Compelling Landing Page

Elements of a Compelling Landing Page

8. Landing Page Best Practices: the definitive guide

Landing Page Best Practices: the definitive guide

Hope you enjoyed following through the resources!

Please feel free to suggest your secret to designing a landing page if any!

With the New Day Comes New Strength and New Thoughts

Ishu Subedi — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:49:57 +0000

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts- a brainy quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

15 Most beautifully designed websites

Ishu — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:09:13 +0000

Web is ever-changing and UI/UX is no different! The trends of minimalist designs, responsive designs and metro style with the use of JavaScript and jQuery is extensive lately. Most of the websites across the web today gets designed based on these trends. There are many excellent websites but here’s a list of top 15 beautifully designed websites that I have compiled by referring to various online resources.

Apple

Apple is the perfect example of simplicity that manages to look appealing through white space, good type and quality images.

Apple – most beautifully designed website

Landor

The inlay feel of this website which highlights each articles with rainbow of colors is really interesting!

Landor – most beautifully designed website

Mozilla

Clean, fresh and simple. Mozilla has a fun look and feel on its design which is also very clear and to the point.

Mozilla – most beautifully designed website

Eco

This is my favorite website designed using bootstrap technology. The color scheme and moving CSS patterns looks cool.

ECO – most beautifully designed websites

37Signals

Simple and nice website! This site has amazingly managed to center everything in the landing page itself.

37signals – most beautifully designed website

Pulpfingers

The simple texture and bold colors with the info-graphic feel design really works for me!

pulpfingers – most beautifully designed websites

Mailbakery

This websites big bold banner and read and blue accent color scheme is amazing.

Mailbakery – most beautifully designed website

Wunderkit

Incredible graphics, nice icons and jQuery makes this site a beautifully designed website!

Wunderkit – most beautifully designed website

No Leath

They have a good blend of Typography and big graphics to display their product.

No Leath – most beautifully designed website

Lake Nona

This website has one of the best sliders I have ever seen and an amazing layout.

Lake Nona – most beautifully designed website

Toasted Digital

No wonder this site also won the site of the day once! It has amazing jQuery transitions and a really amazing layout.

Toasted digital – most beautifully designed website

Vimeo

It has got a very interactive, user-friendly and funky design.

Vimeo – most beautifully designed website

Heroku Status

Simple, good and transparent status page.

heroku status – most beautifully designed website

Heroku

This is probably the geekiest website around but the best one out there.

heroku – most beautifully designed website

Google Websites

The white minimalist look of the new Google websites really works for me.

Google – most beautifully designed website

There are plenty of great websites if you have a list of your own, please feel free to drop them in comments

The most important things in life aren’t things

Ishu — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:49:03 +0000

An impressive pop-up book animation of JP Morgan Chase

Ishu — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:11:00 +0000

20 Most Powerful Design Blogs

Ishu Subedi — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:37:58 +0000

Web design technology is ever changing. With the introduction of the new concepts and tools being adapted by web design; it’s quite difficult for the web designers to keep updated with the latest changes. But thanks to great design blogs available across the internet which have been truly influential to the design community.

Someone recently posted a question on ‘Quora’ on the most influential design blogs which has received some really impressive lists of the design blogs.

Here are the lists of the 20 most popular design blogs that got voted on the answers-

Smashing Magazine

20 most powerful design blogs – Smashing Magazine

Creative Applications Network

20 most powerful design blogs – Creative Applications Network

Siiimple: Minimalist CSS Gallery

20 most popular design blogs – Siiimple Minimalist CSS Gallery

site inspire

20 most powerful design blogs – site inspire

Six Revisions

20 most powerful design blogs – Six Revisions

tuts+ premium

20 most powerful design blogs – tutplus

Just Creative

20 most powerful design blogs – just creative

CSS based

20 most powerful design blogs – cssbased

Design Observer

20 most powerful design blogs – design observer

UX Booth

20 most powerful design blogs – UX booth

Styleboost

20 most popular design blogs – styleboost

The FWA

20 most powerful design blogs – The FWA

Spyline

20 most powerful design blogs – Spyline

Small Surfaces

20 most powerful design blogs – Small Surfaces

Pttrns 1014

20 most powerful design blogs – Pttrns 1014

LukeW Ideation + Design

20 most powerful design blogs – lukew

Johny Holland – It’s all about Interaction

20 most powerful design blogs – Johny Holland

CSS Mania

20 most powerful design blogs – cssmania

UX Mag

20 most powerful design blogs – UXmag

Dribbble

20 most powerful design blogs – Dribbble

Have your favorites made it in the list? Do you follow through some other awesome blogs? If yes, then do leave them in the comments.

10 ways to increase your mobile apps downloads

Ishu Subedi — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:04:45 +0000

Getting a mobile application uncovered is the basic challenge that every developer or marketer faces. Hundreds of mobile applications is released every day across iOS, Android, Windows Phone and other platforms which make standing tall in the market even stiffer. Therefore, the marketer needs to plan the best strategies before launching the app and after post launch as well.

Here’s the 10 effective ways to market your app that every app owner needs to follow

1. Sign up for an app store analytics application

In order to accurately understand your organic app distribution progress, you need to first sign up for an analytics tool. The two most prominent are App Annie and MobileDevHQ.

2. Get featured on App review sites

Submit your app for review to numerous app review sites. Provide a promo code so that the editorial staff can review your app without having to pay for it.

3. Word of mouth (Viral)!

Increase social sharing of content within your app as well as your app itself. Try Path which does an amazing job at simplifying social share.

4. Build a great web landing page

Make a well designed and a simple website for your app. when a potential user Google’s your app, they’ll find both your app’s detail page and your homepage. This in turn helps to convert your website visitors to users.

5. Promote from ads within other apps

Promote your app in interactive ads contained in other iPhone apps. Check out these folks for help Medialets,Quattro Wireless, and AdMob.

6. Promote your mobile app within current customer touch points

Promote your new app on receipts, invoices, monthly statements, etc. You can create attention grabbing stickers,whereever appropriate.

7. Get active on niche blogs and forums

If your app is in a specific niche, find a forum or a blog on the web that has the same niche. Get actively involved by answering questions and commenting as much as possible and leave out the link to your app wherever possible.

8. Create presentations for your app

Create and upload a presentation of your app on www.slideshare.net with description of features and benefits. Creating a demo video for your app also works perfectly to promote the app. So create a demo video not longer than a minute and post it to your website,YouTube and Vimeo.

9. Pricing Strategy

Peggle showed a perfect example of getting a price strategy work by dropping their price from $4.99 to $0.99 for a three day promotion on 11^th June, 2009. As a result on June 16, 2009, Peggle achieved a top ranking on the app store due to the popularity of the offer. But such strategy requires an effective publicity around the promotion.

10. Get noticed in the App store/

Get your app noticed in the app store is the most important point that every app owner needs to pre plan. Customers often browse through the top listed apps. The right name can make or break an app. So, choose a unique and catchy name for your app which should also include the most important keywords that potential users will be searching for.

Here’s an Infographic for the same:

10 ways to increase your mobile app downloads-Infographic

Building an app is a difficult work and marketing it is even tougher. It requires smart strategies and multi faceted approach. Each of the above steps are great tips to march ahead with marketing your app but none are silver bullets.

Are you an app owner or marketer following other tactics to market your app? Is yes, then please feel free to share your tricks!

Amazing video on After effects

Ishu Subedi — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:54:37 +0000

Most popular Apps among freelancers

Ishu Subedi — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:42:28 +0000

‘BestVendor’ a free website that helps people find the best apps and software’s based on the recommendations of other users recently conducted a survey on ‘the next trending apps’. The survey had participation of 97 freelancers from parts of US, Europe among which 44% are from technology and media, while 21% work in design and creative fields.

Here are some emerging favorites among freelancers that haven’t yet hit the mainstream-

Expensify

Creates expense reports that don’t suck by importing expenses and receipts from credit cards and mobile phones.

Creates expense reports that dont suck

Outright

Automates your small business accounting tasks by pulling all of your accounts into one place and organizing them in a smart way.

Automates your small business accounting

Remember the Milk

A popular to-do list application mobile and online task management.

Remember the milk

FreeAgent

“Painless online accounting” for small businesses and freelancers.

Painless online accounting” for small businesses and freelancers

Harvest

Simple time tracking, fast online invoicing and powerful reporting software.

16bugs

A bug tracking solution with a simple productive interface.

Adroll

A leader in retargeting display advertising

Capsule CRM

Online CRM for individuals and small teams who want a simple yet affordable solution.

Online CRM for individuals and small teams

Jing

Captures anything you see on your computer screen as an image or short video, and lets share it instantly.

Captures anything you see on your computer screen

Since this survey is conducted only in parts of US and Europe, I am sure a lot of you ‘freelancers’ from other parts of the globe have your own favorites. So, why not share your favorite apps in the comments?