How good is Google’s new logo?
Today, Google released an update to its logo which it describes as: “simple, uncluttered, colorful, friendly”. The discernibly scrappy dotcom-era…
Do designers need a hippocratic oath?
Designers are increasingly in demand, as the sheer amount of stuff that needs designing grows. But too often, we’re so…
4 ways Windows 10 will impact web design
Windows 10 is now available and it’s the final ever version of Windows. From this point on, Microsoft will cease…
Interview: Macaw’s Tom Giannattasio talks Scarlet, workflow, & live design environments
Macaw is one of a new breed of web design tools. It’s one of the first design applications capable of…
Interview: Ash Hewson talks Affinity Photo
Last week, Serif launched its bitmap editor Affinity Photo, and the response from the design community has been resoundingly positive….
Serif releases Affinity Photo
Today, Serif launches Affinity Photo, the highly anticipated companion app to 2014’s Affinity Designer. Whilst Affinity Designer was aimed at…
Google unveils Material Design Lite
Yesterday Google announced the release of Material Design Lite. Not, as the name might imply, a streamlined version of Material…
Facebook reveals new logo
Yesterday, Christophe Tauziet, a product designer at Facebook, shared a shot of the new Facebook logo. Reportedly designed by Facebook’s…
Adobe releases major Creative Cloud update
Adobe have just rolled out a major update to their Creative Cloud suite of design tools. In addition to the…
Safari 9: Everything web designers need to know now
Yesterday’s keynote at the Apple WWDC featured two new OS. The new MacOS is named El Capitan after a rock…
Aol.com redesigns mobile-first
Very few of the major players from the Web’s early days are still with us. Business models that thrived in…
How to successfully combine typefaces
Combining typefaces is one of the most challenging skills for a designer to master. Setting two fonts together in the…
Designing patterns: the biggest web trend of 2015 so far
2015 has inherited a lot of trends from previous years, there’s been a steady evolution of ideas — Flat Design…
Microsoft Edge: What designers need to know
This week Microsoft introduced its new browser, Edge, the project that had formerly been known as Project Spartan. Much has…
Is Neue Haas Unica the perfect grotesk for the Web?
This week, the Web went giddy at the knees over the release of Monotype’s Neue Haas Unica. The typeface is…