Abinash Mohanty

User Experience Designer

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How to Use Feedly Reader for Just 10 Minutes

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In my last post…. I shared how to utilize your smartphone?on LinkedIn. I also shared some of the apps that can increase your productivity. If you’re a designer, you better need to check what’s trending. That can only happen if you keep following some of the feeds, particularly on design, from some of the popular sources.

My friend, @Saikat asked me a question, “How do we prioritize what to read and what to leave.” And that’s how I came up with this post.

In this post, I’ll show you one of my secrets; how to spend not more than 10 mins using Feedly reader along with its companion pocket or readability app to get the most out it.

And the best thing is that you don’t need to spend a single penny.

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Online Design Portfolio Review: Coroflot or Behance?

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Why do we use a photo frame? Some use them to protect while others for photo enhancement. Bad photo frames can spoil the look of your photographs. Your selection criteria may include qualities, finishes, textures, detailing, pricing, appearance, materials & colors. If you are designer, sculpture or even a photographer, you know how difficult it is to showcase your creative work especially when it comes to online portfolio services. Design schools can guide you but never teach you what to select. [Read more…] about Online Design Portfolio Review: Coroflot or Behance?

Top 8 Google+ Chrome Extensions

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If you love Google+ then you may try these great Google+ Chrome Extensions, which would definitely increase your productivity. There are so many chrome extensions are available on chrome web store, but you don’t need to install all of them rather than the selected ones. I have compared and tested the following ?Top 8 Google+ Chrome Extensions especially from productivity standpoint. So let’s get started! [Read more…] about Top 8 Google+ Chrome Extensions

Create Color Palette from an Image

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At times, creating a color palette from an image is something really hard to achieve especially when you are assigned a related project which was designed by someone else in the past. It is mandatory for designers to ask client for the design assets such as original design files, color palette, fonts and so on before starting this new project. But if you are a freelancer or working in a fast-paced environment, then you may try [Read more…] about Create Color Palette from an Image

Manage multiple host files on mac

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You know how tough it is to test a series of web design pages through out the operating systems (mac, linux, windows etc) along with browsers before they can go live. If you are a mac user then you need to map your IP with developer’s IP or testing server just to crosscheck whether everything is running well.?Managing multiple host files on mac is not possible by default than the linear process.?For mapping, you need [Read more…] about Manage multiple host files on mac

Google Keep Can’t Replace Evernote

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Google has more than?300 million monthly active users by google source. Google became popular due to it’s first product ‘Google’s core search engine’ launched in 1997 along with email and social networking tool called Google Buzz, but it wasn’t that popular and discontinued by end of 2011. However, we are not here to talk about google story rather to understand how some of the products are successful while others are not even though the company is number 1 as per Alexa ranking. Let’s talk about the new product by google; Google Keep and compares why it can not replace Evernote. [Read more…] about Google Keep Can’t Replace Evernote