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As designers, we’re almost always searching for new tips, tricks, and tools to help speed-up and improve our workflow. After a few months of testing out Chrome extensions, I’ve compiled a list of the  9 best extensions and plugins for designers . Window Resizer If you’re a designer— you’re most likely staring at a 27" iMac as you read this. Yet, most of our users don’t have monitors that are baby-elephant-size. Thus meet  Window Resizer . This is a real life-saver when it comes to seeing how your site looks on different viewports. Simply open the extension and either click the preset viewports or enter in something custom. Loom They say a picture is worth a thousand words and so a video is worth 10,000? 1M? Who knows — a lot though.  Loom  is a truly amazing free piece of software, which will help you record animations, user-flows, or bugs and share them with your team. I’ve used this tool a lot over the past few months. It’s great for when you...

While minimal flat style designs are the current hot trend, some designers are eliminating solid blocks of color from their designs with the use of subtle textures. The use of grainy textures really helps give a design a tactile appearance and fits perfectly with designs using an old school or retro style. This post showcases some great websites which are perfect examples of grain texture use. These sites don’t take texturing to the extreme, but the grainy backgrounds really help add subtle details to the design. Textures are used in web design to avoid the cold/fake/digital appearance of flat solid colours, to instead add an element of realism and that sense of something real. You don’t have to go full-on with concrete, paper or wood textures to achieve this though, just adding a subtle overlay of dust or noise can really enhance your design to give that tactile appearance. This post showcases 20+ inspiring examples of website designs that perfectly achieve that realistic feeling...

In addition to the layout on a website, an ad structure can be optimized through the sizes and types of the served designs. There are standards and rules that will direct you towards the  best solutions , but sometimes it’s good to look into the aspect of regionalism too. Also, the question arises: are all sizes and types of ads received equally well by users? What exactly is the standard? When talking about standards on the Internet market, it’s impossible not to mention the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau), which is an organization that brings together entities of the  interactive market . It includes over 650 of the largest media and technology companies that deal in the broadly-defined Internet marketing. One of the IAB’s objectives is to create quality standards that affect many aspects of online advertising, such as SEO and behavioral ads. As far as the display is concerned, it is worth reading  this article , it will give you recommendations and tip...