How To Make Your Designs Scannable (And Why You Should)
Simply put, users don’t read a web page; they scan it for individual words and sentences. A typical pattern shown…
Adobe Has Acquired You
Excited press releases extolling the benefits of the “collaboration” followed the news. Dylan Field, founder and CEO of Figma, said:…
Exciting New Features in Safari 16
For web designers, the significance is the forward momentum in web technologies that enable freer design work and fewer hacks…
15 Best New Fonts, September 2022
This month’s collection of fresh new fonts includes some typefaces that push boundaries in subtle but irresistible ways, a few…
15 Best New Fonts, Aug 2022
There’s nothing like a new font or two to breathe new life into your designs. And so, every month, we…
10 Ways to Perfect Your Newsletter Signup and Increase Subscribers
Your brain is extremely fast. It’s capable of processing data and making a decision with unparalleled speed. Macro decisions, like…
15 Best New Fonts, July 2022
Typefaces give a voice and a character to our text. As a result, they influence our designs more than most…
7 UX Laws You’re Probably Getting Wrong
UX laws are an invaluable tool, providing guidelines for designers that ensure we don’t have to continually reinvent the wheel…
WordPress 6.0 Lives Up To The Hype
WordPress 6.0 has been released, and another niche jazz musician will be enjoying extra Spotify royalties next month. WordPress 6,…
When UX Goes Bad (and How to Fix It)
Designing for user experiences is what all designers do. UX is often thought of as the preserve of app or…
5 Must-Have Elements of a Successful Footer in 2022
Like shoes, website footers help us see the core of the entity behind the site. A footer is both functional…
Myth-Busting NFTs: 7 Claims Fact-Checked
You probably know by now that NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token; what is perhaps less clear is what “Fungible” actually…
The Case Against UX Testing
The UX designer has devised a series of tests to determine if a green button is better than a red…
5 Big Web Design Predictions for 2022
Ten years ago, I would have had high confidence in these predictions — after all I was eventually right about…
Pantone Color of the Year 2022
On this occasion, for the first time, Pantone has elected to create a brand new color for its Color of…
Square Rebrands as Block
Two days later, it was announced that Square will now rebrand under the umbrella of Block. Like Meta and Alphabet,…
Facebook Goes All Meta
Zuckerberg — or The Zuckster, as I imagine he introduces himself when arriving uninvited to your birthday drinks — was…
Fighting Your Corner: Assertive SEO in 2021+
When it comes to any metric, there is an understandable temptation to focus on volume. In some cases, absolute metrics…