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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!
Exciting New Tools for Designers, July 2022
Monodraw – A Non-subscription, Powerful ASCII Art Editor
CSS Scan 3.0 – The Fastest and Easiest Way to Check, Copy and Edit CSS
How a Small Change to U.S. Quarters is Part of a Big Trend in Logo Design
6 Best CMS Options for Web Designers in 2022
Adobe Alternatives: 30+ Free or Cheap Design Tools for Marketers
Payload CMS – The Best TypeScript CMS Developer Experience There is
Bootstrap 5.2.0
Intro to Pure CSS: Minimal, Modular CSS Layouts
Call to Action Examples – Call to Action Example Library with 100+ CTA Ideas
Moving Beyond UX: The Rise of the Agentic Experience (AX) Designer
AX Design stands for Agentic Experience Design. It is an emerging design discipline focused not on creating human-facing user interfaces (UI), but on designing, structuring, and auditing the environments where autonomous AI…
7 Best Design Tools & Resources for Faster Web Builds in 2026
Best design tools and resources are those that can lay claim to characteristics that typically include ease of use and related workflow characteristics, future-readiness, easy integration with supporting tools or…
Product Thinking for UI Designers: Decisions Beyond the Pixels
For a long time, the industry treated design like a relay race. The Product Manager (PM) would run the first leg, defining the “requirements.” They’d then pass the baton to…
How “Liquid Design” Broke the iPhone and Forced Apple’s Great Reset
The launch of iOS 26 was heralded as a “Spatial Awakening.” Apple’s design team, led by the high-concept vision of Alan Dye, promised to bridge the gap between our physical reality and…
Why Webflow Isn’t the Future — Yet
Webflow has become the poster child for the no-code design revolution—a world where designers can “build for the web” without learning to code. It promises freedom, speed, and the ability…
Dear Designers: Stop Using System Fonts Like It’s 2005
Remember system fonts? Good old Times New Roman, trusty Arial, and the unkillable Courier New. Fonts so baked into operating systems, they felt like infrastructure—like sidewalks and salt. For a…