Dogma Kills Design
It’s all in the title, really. I am no stranger to dogmatic thinking. I was once a very religious missionary,…
Interview: Jorn and Koen of Framer X
The holy grail of web design used to be a three-column layout where every column had equal height. Now, the…
20 Best New Portfolios, February 2019
Welcome back, Readers! It’s February, and I don’t think I have a single pink or chocolate-themed site anywhere in the…
7 Best Side Hustles for 2019
According to some historical records, some people out there have boundless energy, loads of free time, and ambition enough to…
7 Ways to Sell Words Online
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a lot of photographers aren’t getting paid enough. When a writer actually…
Behance Redesigns its Portfolios
There’s been a fairly big update to Behance, also known as DeviantArt for designers. Heck, I remember when I used…
20 Best New Portfolios, January 2019
Welcome back, WDD Readers. It’s January 2019, and we’re all coming back to work bleary-eyed and bushy-tailed. Why don’t you…
GitHub Now Offering Unlimited Private Repos to Free Users
GitHub has made its first really big change since Microsoft acquired it a while back, and it’s a good one…
Respectful UX: 5 Ways to Make Users Feel Valued
Every human being needs, rather desperately, to feel accepted. They don’t necessarily need to feel accepted by everyone, but they…
5 Ways to Design for Large Viewports
Web designers have typically always been big-picture people, in that they like having really big screens in front of them….
The Witches’ Guide to Design
No, no. I didn’t go researching modern-day witchcraft or anything like I did with Taoism. No, I’m taking web design…
20 Hints That It’s Time to Take a Holiday
Everyone needs time off, and this is especially true for creative professions. The brain is like any other organ in…
The State of Web Design, December 2018
Hey there, WDD Readers. Once more, I have spent a whole lot of my life online. My New Year’s resolution…
When to Use Old Code
The point here is simple: the world more or less runs on old code, and that’s not always a bad…
20 Best New Portfolios, December 2018
It’s December, which means it’s officially carol season. Oh well. Whether you’re a curmudgeon about these things like myself, or…