Jerry Cao is a UX content strategist at UXPin — the wireframing and prototyping app. To learn more about how to create visually digestible interfaces, download the free e-book Web UI Design for the ...

Delve deep into the wide world of color and make your compositions stronger with a crash course in color theory. As much a science as it is an art, color theory is a complex study that outlines ...

>For anyone without a color theory background, it will blow your mind. Fifty years later the book’s guts still hold up—the theories Albers developed during his time at the Bauhaus continue to be ...

Artist unknown, “Emily Noyes Vanderpoel in her home” (ca. 1920), (photograph courtesy Litchfield Historical Society) Though her name is virtually unknown today, Emily Noyes Vanderpoel enjoyed a modest ...

The science and art of color theory is divided by a wheel or chart into three main categories: primary, secondary and tertiary. Color is something we perceive through a combination of wavelengths ...

Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! EGGSHELL. TAUPE. CREAM. Off-white. (Yawn.) Sure, we all love the familiar neutrals, but ...

The color wheel was first developed by English mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton, who discovered that white light (what we perceive as colorless daylight) is composed of a spectrum of ...

Whether you’re looking to brush up on the basic principles of good design or seeking some eye-candy inspiration, it’s always a good idea to stock up on design books. These classic tomes offer an ...