Does the Web Really Need Cookies?
Every day, millions of people visit websites all over the world, and are confronted with a simple message: “We use…
4 Times When it’s OK to Trick Users
Tricking people can be… well… tricky. The problem, at its most fundamental level, is that people only like to be…
4 Ways to Extract Website Content From a Client
In a perfect world, we’d all have all the content we needed before we ever touched a wireframe, on paper…
Reputation Management 101
I really don’t need to explain how important your reputation is, do I? Short version: if people think you suck,…
20 Best New Portfolios, May 2019
Hello all, as Justin Timberlake once predicted, it is now May. Now that I’ve subjected you to the latest and…
5 Signs That Web Design Is Reaching Its Own Industrial Age
The Internet as a concept, and as a community, is much like a teenager: it’s struggling to establish its identity,…
How to Pick Your Next Tech Focus
Every day, people are asking themselves things like, “React or Vue?” “VR or no VR?” “CSS Grid or Flexbox?” These…
6 Tips for Posting Content Anonymously
Yes. Yes it should. There’s no doubt that there are terrible people in the world; but anonymity is a powerful…
20 Best New Portfolios, April 2019
Greetings, Readers! It’s April, so there will be no joke here. You’re welcome. This month, designers seem to have hit…
DeviantArt has a Redesign in Beta
Wow. DeviantArt; there’s a blast from the past, where I’m concerned. I used to have an account where I posted…
In Defense of the Word “User”
Recently-ish, there has been a small but noticeable backlash to the word “user”. Yeah, the word for people who do,…
8 Dead Web Trends We’re Better Off Without
A lot of very smart people have said that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat…
Thoughts on Designing for the Existence of Children
Don’t get me wrong. I like children in the abstract. I believe they are the future, and so they should…
20 Best New Portfolios, March 2019
It’s March, dear Readers, and here in Monterrey, the weather can’t seem to make up its darned mind. Is it…
17 Plugins, Tutorials, and Resources for Gutenberg
The WordPress community officially has Gutenberg fever. While there has been some grumbling (and not without some cause), the blocky…