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4 Modern Background Tricks to Try Out

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Sometimes, as a web designer, you find that it is difficult to find fresh inspiration, if you happen to face this problem, you can search new techniques and play around with the CSS3, HTML5, and JavaScript. Actually, there is a discernible trend of going for these options. But at least, you can find four different modern dynamic backgrounds that can help to inspire you, such as follows:

  1. Particle Animation

Particle animation is maybe one of the most popular choices right now. Many websites has successfully applied this elegant cosmos-inspired as their solution. Particle animation work best in combination with plain solid color canvas, illustration, vector drawings, and even photos.

You can also select vary animation that it offers. Range from a bundle of chaotically moving dots that are scattered throughout the entire page to imitate starry sky or rain of stars, or constellation-themed solution where you can connect circles with thin lines. Besides, some effects are paired with the effects triggered by mouse hover events. It aims to enable you drive the particles away, form swirls from them, attach them to cursor as a trail, etc.

  1. Waves of Particles

Different from the above example which mostly all the effects come from HTML5 and CSS3 and a pinch of JavaScript magic, waves of particles is an ingenious experiment with Three.js library. It easily reminds one of small tides, with its arched forms and smooth ripple-like movements and gives a feeling of a breathing canvas. To explore it horizontally and vertically, you can move the mouse cursor to rotate it in different directions.

  1. Mouse Hover Parallax

Another flourishing trend that you should know is Layered Parallax. It has a surprising way to transform a dull static background into a composition with a subtle 3D feeling along with particle animation. In fact, you only need to spruce it up a bit instead of ditch your favorite image choice.

It is pretty beneficial when you need to liven up the title, logotype, surreal scene, or illustration. It is also suitable for various abstract animations. This not only adds another dimension, but also allows the users to play with the environment which is triggered by standard mouse hover event.

  1. WEBGL Experiments

If you have pretty amount of money, you can choose WebGL experiments as your inspiration. It can be brilliant, awe-inspiring, and a bit pompous. You may find it is a bit expensive, but it worth every penny. However, you should adapt with the amount of resources that it consumes, and the lack of full browser compatibility.

3 Ways to Stay Creative under Pressure

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4 ways to stay creative under pressure

Maintaining your head to stay calm and clear sometimes can be difficult, especially when there is deadline that should be finished. If you are web designers which usually be in this situation, you better learn how to cope with pressure, so you can stay creative even if you are in an under pressure condition.

  1. Use Your Deadlines

There are pro and contra about having any pressure in work, especially in design world where creativity is the core of everything. At some point, having deadline will help you to complete overwhelming amounts of work since the traditional theory stated that people work better when they are under pressure and that deadlines are a good way to get the most out of people. However, a recent scientific research is turning against this idea. According to the research, now it’s more commonly thought that although you might get work done quickly under pressure, creativity does not flow when people feel pressurized. So, how to get the best of both world? The best solution for remaining creative under pressure is that the pressure has to be meaningful. If someone or a team felt that what they were doing was important then no matter what deadline or extreme pressure they were under, they were still capable of coming up with unique, creative solutions to any problems encountered.

  1. Talk About It Constructively

Working under pressure sometimes will limit the time and creativity of designers as when they found that they are “on a mission”, they preferred to be locked away from the society and thinking on their own rather than talking in groups. This is aimed mostly because they want to have more focus and less distraction.

While in fact, if these people want to make time and sit down together with a colleague to focus on a single problem led to much more creativity. If you find yourself struggling for good ideas, then consider finding an individual that really understands the problem at hand and team up. Since you bounce ideas off each other you are likely to become far more creative.

  1. Look For Inspiration

Since design is a field of creativity, so considering on how to get inspired is the most important thing. It is obviously difficult to stay inspired when you are under pressure, so remember to get up and take that break each time you feel uninspired. You can try to go for a walk, watch a TV show, listen to some music which allow your brain to not think for a while. Moreover, it makes the unconscious part of your brain to start working and to start to come up with more creative ideas.