What’s the point of uploading free resources? Especially difficult ones that take a lot of time and effort. Here are some advantages I found from this:

• Freebies create a positive impression for you. It goes without saying that people love getting things for free. So giving out a cool freebie is great way to satisfy your audience. Freebies add value to the interaction and give your customers positive feelings about you and your company. These are feelings that they are likely to share with others, creating a positive buzz about you.

• Share the experience with other designers and get their recognition. Thanks to such freebies, I am being a beginner with no knowledge, received recognition. I downloaded what I could find, I looked at how everything worked inside. After all, he made this fantastic caramel button, so that it seems to be made of plastic, and at the same time, it looks like pencils rubber. And I have to understand how. The epoch of skeuomorphism, ah, it was really fun and interesting. …

Hey guys! Craftwork is here again with a new super-cool article. This time we will touch on the topic of flowcharts. They don’t have such a big audience as wireframes and illustrations, but anyway useful for many designers to boost up the prototyping process.

Let’s first try to understand what a flowchart is and what it is used for. A flowchart is a prototype(website or applications) that shows the general view of the structure. It is used to quickly and clearly create sitemaps and wireframes of the project. Using flowcharts you can recreate and explain how your website or application works and behaves in various ways. It is really useful for discussing a project with a client or with a team before starting to create. …

I guess that every web designer somehow thinks about ways to ease and boost up his workflow. In creating a website design, the first and one of the most important steps is prototyping. Prototyping one landing page on average can take about a day. Well, if you are not a designer, but a customer, then one day work of a web designer may cost you quite a lot. The way out of this situation may be ready-to-use wireframe kits and tools. They will save a lot of time for the designer, and a lot of money for the customer. …

Hi! My name is Denis Shepovalov, I am UI Designer and Founder of Craftwork.design. We create and sell digital products. And here is what I can tell to those designers who are thinking of doing the same, instead of office work.

Advantages:

• Freedom of creativity. This is an independent work on the project, where you yourself decide what happens. No deadlines, customers, influences from the side.
• Excitement. You never know how your work will be perceived, how well it will sell. This fire inside feeds the whole process.
• Digital nomadism. All you need is a good internet connection and a laptop. Although we first sat in co-working, and then still rented the office. …