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…
Discovery of 2nd web has wide-ranging consequences for net neutrality
In the last year there’s been an increasingly passionate debate over the possibility of a two-tier internet. However, research carried…
The future of responsive web design
It’s almost incomprehensible in 2015 to build a website that isn’t responsive. The technique has developed to the point that…
Is it time to embrace responsive branding?
Consistency, we’re taught, is the hallmark of quality. Whether it’s in copywriting or color, layout or lettering, consistency feels deliberate…
5 rules for choosing the perfect web typeface
Selecting a typeface for a project is a defining moment. Occasionally you’ll be looking to add personality to a design,…
7 simple rules for mobile typography
You’ve probably heard that good typography is invisible, but it’s more accurate to say that good typography makes the act…
How to perfect your websites with marginal gains
A little over a decade ago, British competitive cycling was nowhere. With a couple of notable exceptions — Tom Simpson…
Are design patterns destroying web design?
Design patterns are common solutions to common problems. When you add a slider to a homepage you’re employing a design…
10 web design trends you’ll actually see in 2015 (and how to survive them)
This time last year I made 7 predictions for web design in 2014, with mixed results (I’m looking at you…
Is The Grid a better web designer than you?
Unless you’ve developed the enviable skill of ignoring adverts on Twitter, you can’t have failed to notice The Grid, a…