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…
WordPress 5.0 Is Here (and Yes, So Is Gutenberg)
WordPess 5.0 (codenamed “Bebo”) is officially out and prowling among the servers. This, then, is when we find out how…
Content Management is Design
Content management is design. I usually try to start an article with some sort of joke or metaphor for flavor,…
The Web Can’t Go Home Again
It’s far too easy to look back and imagine that everything was better then than it is now. God knows…