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How to Have Fun Travelling: 10 Best Travel Tips from a Pro

Here’s what you need to know about the largest data repository in the world...

Darinka Kostelnik in Lifestyle
Oct 25 - 4 min read ★

10 Things I’ve Learnt About Money as a Freelancer

In 2003, I took the life-changing step of turning my hobby into a career. It was exciting and completely nerve-wracking!...

Darinka Kostelnik in Freelancing, Lifestyle
Oct 23 - 6 min read ★

8 Habits Everyone Should Try, and Why I Don’t Care if They Make Me “Successful.”

To avoid falling into an unproductive trap, it’s really important to develop a morning routine that puts you in the right mindset to conquer your...

Darinka Kostelnik in Lifestyle
Oct 23 - 3 min read ★

Pros and Cons of Putting Google AMP on Your Site

AMP is an open source initiative back by WordPress and Google specifically for speeding up the mobile experience....

Darinka Kostelnik in Web Development
Oct 16 - 4 min read ★

Creating Community Through CoSpaces

A guide for freelancers on how to seek out creativity and inspiration outside of an office....

Darinka Kostelnik in Freelancing, Lifestyle
Oct 15 - 5 min read ★

How the iOS Design Style Translates to the Web

With the introduction of iOS 10, Apple has begun a significant shift away from its previous design language....

Darinka Kostelnik in Typography
Oct 15 - 3 min read ★

Timeless lessons from a typography masters

There’s a beauty and complexity to typography. Some people devote their entire careers to type....

Darinka Kostelnik in Typography
Feb 14 - 2 min read

A Collection of 20 The Most Interesting Financial Designs to Inspire Banking and Fintech

All of the following designs are taken from UXDA customers business cases and delivered to the real-world financial services....

Darinka Kostelnik in UI/UX Design
Feb 14 - 2 min read

Latest UI/UX Design Trends You Should Know

The designer needs to stay on top of the latest design trends. The work style should change and evolve to keep work fresh and resonate...

Darinka Kostelnik in UI/UX Design
Feb 14 - 2 min read

How the Web Works: A Primer for Newcomers to Web Development (or anyone, really)

If you’re just getting into web development, chances are you think you know how the web works — at least on a basic level....

Darinka Kostelnik in Web Development
Feb 14 - 4 min read

Stop using CSS in JavaScript for web development

This article lists common misconceptions (myths) and the existing CSS solutions to those problems....

Darinka Kostelnik in Web Development
Feb 14 - 4 min read

How to set up your Mac for Web Development

This article will guide you through the minimum setup you’ll need to get up and running with JavaScript-based web development on your Mac....

Darinka Kostelnik in Web Development
Feb 14 - 4 min read

8 top must-use tools to boost your web development workflow

As developers, before we deploy our applications or even before we choose our cloud provider, we should consider which tools we use for our day-to-day...

Darinka Kostelnik in Freelancing, Web Development
Feb 14 - 4 min read

8-Point Grid: Typography On The Web

Web typography is confusing. Do you know the best practices?...

Darinka Kostelnik in Typography
Feb 14 - 2 min read

Typography can make or break your design: a process for choosing type

One of the most important skills you can learn as a designer is how to choose type. ...

Darinka Kostelnik in Typography
Feb 14 - 2 min read

UI/UX Case Study: Nutrition Tracking App

When people start working out, much of their success or failure in reaching their goals are based on their diet. ...

Darinka Kostelnik in UI/UX Design, Web Development
Feb 14 - 2 min read

Micro frontends—a microservice approach to front-end web development

For web apps, the front end is becoming bigger and bigger, and the back end is getting less important. ...

Darinka Kostelnik in Web Development
Feb 14 - 4 min read

The Ultimate Guide to Learning Full Stack Web Development in 6 months, for $30

Hey everyone! In this article I’m going to show you how to go from knowing little to nothing about Web Development to Junior Full Stack...

Darinka Kostelnik in Web Development
Feb 14 - 4 min read

How I Learned Front-end Web Development for Free in Five Days

Last week, I set myself the challenge to become an intermediate front-end developer in just five days. This is how I did it....

Darinka Kostelnik in Freelancing, Web Development
Feb 14 - 4 min read

UI/UX Case Study: Designing a better cinema experience

Going to the cinema is a fun experience, but ordering the tickets in many apps and website often feels like navigation in a really long...

Darinka Kostelnik in UI/UX Design
Feb 14 - 2 min read

The Psychology Principles Every UI/UX Designer Needs to Know

As a part of Google’s Data Science Interview, they like to ask questions that they call “Problem-Solving” questions which are pretty similar to brain teasers....

Darinka Kostelnik in UI/UX Design
Feb 14 - 1 min read

Exactly How I Landed My Most Lucrative Freelance and Consulting Deals

Hint: there’s no shortcut. I’ve been working at this for 17 years....

Darinka Kostelnik in Freelancing
Feb 14 - 6 min read

How I earned $15,000 last month from freelance design

Hint: there’s no shortcut. I’ve been working at this for 17 years....

Darinka Kostelnik in Freelancing
Feb 13 - 6 min read

Tools I Use To Learn, Work And Travel Anywhere

Here’s what you need to know about the largest data repository in the world...

Darinka Kostelnik in Freelancing, Lifestyle
Feb 13 - 2 min read

From concept to finished cross-channel digital product

As a part of Google’s Data Science Interview, they like to ask questions that they call “Problem-Solving” questions which are pretty similar to brain teasers....

Darinka Kostelnik in UI/UX Design
Oct 15 - 1 min read

Some Basic Typographic Elements

This is an excerpt. Open the page in the admin panel and change the excerpt to appear here....

Darinka Kostelnik in Typography, UI/UX Design
Oct 15 - 1 min read

The Future of Design is Simplicity

Design trends come and go but great design is always easy to recognize. Print work that catches your eye and naturally intuitive interfaces will always...

Darinka Kostelnik in Typography
Oct 15 - 3 min read