5 years of Foundation: a look back
This month, ZURB celebrates the 5th birthday of its Foundation front-end framework. This popular framework is known for its responsive…
eBay experiments with a visual search engine
eBay, the giant auction site, has just launched a new site specifically for people looking for furniture and other complementary…
Designing for mobile app commerce
One of the more lucrative projects for designers these days doesn’t even involve desktop. That’s because, in the last few…
Affinity Designer 1.5 released
The powerful and award-winning graphic-designer app Affinity Designer has just received a big update. This alternative to Adobe just released…
The surprising history of emojis
You encounter emojis on a regular basis in your 21st-century, tech-savvy lifestyle, but what is the history of emojis? They’re…
Why brutalism boosts conversions
For those of us familiar with brutalism on the web, we don’t necessarily look at it as a favorable design…
LinkedIn announces a new online platform
Hot on the heels of the acquisition of LinkedIn by Microsoft this year and the redesign of the company’s iOS…
Mozilla’s rebrand reaches the final four
Mozilla’s rebranding project has been going on the entire Summer. Now, as we head into the Fall, the company’s rebranding…
Photoshop Express gets a UI update
In Version 3 of Adobe’s Photoshop Express, the app’s entire interface gets a design makeover. This is a milestone of…
Vivaldi 1.4 delivers theme scheduling
Hot on the heels of the latest Vivaldi release, the freeware web browser unveils another round of updates to improve…
The rise and rise of the brutalist design trend
Brutalism in web design is raw, rough, unpolished and everything that today’s standard of the aesthetically beautiful website isn’t. It…
Vivaldi 1.3 is a bold new vision for browsers
If there’s one thing you can count on from the folks at Vivaldi, it’s that they’re always seeking to make…
Facebook delivers a better UX for businesses
Every business today seems to have its own Facebook business page, and with good reason; Facebook is a huge force…
Instagram unveils Stories, for more meaningful sharing
Looking for a new way to experience Instagram and get something more out of it? If you are, then Instagram…
Looking fast beats being fast
You’d be forgiven if you thought that you had to design your clients’ websites to be fast all the time….