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Everyday design fans submit incredible industry stories to our sister-site, Webdesigner News. Our colleagues sift through it, selecting the very best stories from the design, UX, tech, and development worlds and posting them live on the site.
The best way to keep up with the most important stories for web professionals is to subscribe to Webdesigner News or check out the site regularly. However, in case you missed a day this week, here’s a handy compilation of the top curated stories from the last seven days. Enjoy!
The New Trello – Going Beyond the Board
Flameshot – Superb Screenshot Tool
GitHub Surf – Open repositories in a VSCode Environment
The Never-Ending Job of Selling Design Systems
The Secret Ingredients to Design
What Saul Bass Can Teach Us About Web Design
2021 Planner for Notion – A Smart Notion Workspace
Ideas for CSS Button Hover Animations
Ray.so – Create Beautiful Images of Your Code
Variable Font Reveals The Full Horror of The Climate Crisis
Design Systems For Figma: Year In The Life Of A Material Design Advocate
Interface Market – An Extensive Collection of App UI Kits
DogeHouse – Open-Source Audio Chat on the Web
Interaction Design is More Than Just User Flows and Clicks
Design Trends 2021
Straw.Page – Extremely Simple Website Builder
The Impact of Web Design and SEO Conversion Rates
Powerful Microinteractions to Improve Your Prototypes
What’s New in Ecommerce, February 2021
Colortopia – The Easiest Way to Find Colors
5 Simple Design Patterns to Improve Your Website
TextBuddy for macOS – A Swiss Army Knife for Plain Text
Upcoming Interesting JavaScript ES2021 (ES12) Features
WordPress 5.7: Big ol’ jQuery Update
JavaScript reducer – A Simple, Yet Powerful Array Method
Google’s Project Mariner: UX and User Testing in the Age of AI-Driven Web Navigation
Google’s recent unveiling of Project Mariner is more than just a technical milestone—it’s a harbinger of how user experiences (UX) and user testing will evolve in the face of AI-driven web navigation….
Git Wrapped: The GitHub Year in Review You Didn’t Know You Needed
As the year draws to a close, many of us indulge in retrospectives—Spotify Wrapped has long dominated the game, giving us insights into our music habits. But what if your…
Sandisk’s New Logo Is a Single Pixel of the Future
Sandisk Corporation—synonymous with flash drives, memory cards, and digital storage—has redefined its visual identity with a bold, minimalist new logo. The inspiration? A single pixel. “It all started with the…
The State of UX in 2025: What Designers Need to Know
Every year, the UX Collective dives deep into what’s shaping the design world, and their 2025 State of UX report is out. Spoiler alert: it’s a mix of exciting tech…
Apple Releases Its Picks for the Best Apps of 2024
Every year, the App Store team takes on the exciting challenge of picking the most exceptional apps and games to celebrate with their App Store Awards. This year, Apple has…
Shopify Releases The Boring Edition: Winter 2025
Shopify’s 2025 Edition, humorously titled The Boring Edition, takes a no-nonsense approach to improving its platform. Instead of introducing flashy new features, Shopify is doubling down on making its existing…