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Whenever a student wanting to work in the design industry asks me for advice, the first thing that comes to my mind is the importance of maintaining a current and up-to-date skill set. Often, we spend so much time focusing on the actual jobs at hand that we neglect to nourish and refresh our knowledge.

This article aims to highlight the importance of setting aside time for self-improvement, with recommendations on how you can keep learning to stay ahead of the curve.

Read more: http://sixrevisions.com/project-management/becoming-a-better-web-designer/

How to know whether a visitor likes your website? Usability tools provide an answer to this by tracking user’s actions. The tracked data gives you a precision of what a user like about your site, which area is the most prominent, most used and places which most users avoid. Do not underestimate the data collected because these figures can significantly boost up your site’s performance in terms of sales conversion rate, click-through and more.

There is no right or wrong time to improve your site. Usability test can be execute when you realize you need an improvement for your website or when you find that your site does not attract as much visitors anymore. Here are some of the best tools (web services) that tracks user’s actions in various methods and the output (end result) will deliver you the information you’ll need to improve your website’s usability. Some of them may not be free but there is always a price to pay for a good return. Have fun hunting for the right tool you need!

There are a lot of free icon sets out there for you to use. In this collection, we rounded up a few icon sets from all over the web that you can use in your design projects.

The hundreds of featured icons here are diverse in their styles: glossy, hand-drawn, realistic, textured are among the design themes you’ll find. I hope you find a handful of icon sets that you’ll bookmark, download, and use!