3 Ways to Design More Inclusively
Accessibility is a process that seeks to mitigate issues in a design that is not sufficiently universal; inclusive design increases…
Poll: Fast CDN, Cheap CDN, Good CDN, Pick Any One…
This week, a significant portion of the Web fell over when on Tuesday, sites powered by Fastly were impacted by…
Poll: Is Basecamp Right To Shutdown Politics At Work?
In a post that has been revised for “clarification,” the company’s co-founder Jason Fried listed six rules for employees: No…
3 Effective Ways To Improve Your Site’s Carbon Footprint
At the dawn of the web-era, there was much focus on how environmentally friendly websites were: we’d chop down fewer…
Wix vs WordPress: 3rd Round Knockout
First, Wix sent out expensive headphones as gifts to key WordPress “influencers” in an attempt to lure them to the…
Poll: Is Environmentally Conscious Web Design Really Worth It?
At this point, the reasonable best-case (yes, best-case) scenario is that global temperatures will rise by 2˚C — if we…
Poll: Should You Fire Good Clients?
But few, if any, plan for the end of a project. Offboarding clients simply isn’t a thing. We build their…
7 Skills You Need To Thrive As A Web Designer In 2021
While the tools we use, the terminology we employ, and the goalposts we shoot for are constantly changing, core skills…
Key and Surface Tracking Comes to Chrome
Google’s first step was the announcement in January of FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts). Google itself is still testing and…
ITF Launches Free Font Service Fontshare
ITF (the Indian Type Foundry) has launched a brand new font service to bring beautiful typography to every business for…
Ranked: Top 10 Illustration Apps in 2021
Illustration is a big trend in 2021. Every designer should have some ability to illustrate, whether that’s producing icons, creating…
15 Psychology Principles Every Designer Should Know
So, really, you’re in the business of designing websites for your clients’ audiences. But how do you ensure you get…
Ghost 4.0 Released
We’ve been big fans of Ghost since it first launched via a Kickstarter campaign way back in 2013. Ghost 4.0…
Comics for Designers #440
Every month we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
Poll: Is It Time to Merge Browser Engines Into a Browser Protocol?
We tend not to think about it, but the Internet has a physical dimension. It’s a complex network of wires,…