The Rise and Fall of the Web Mascot: Where Did They Go?
Remember when every other startup had a mascot? A weird, bug-eyed creature with a permanent smirk, usually some round, blobby…
Skeleton Screens Are Just Gray Lies We Tell Ourselves
It’s 2025. Your site loads, your API chokes for a split second, and boom: shimmering gray boxes cascade across the…
Nobody Waits for Your Fancy Animations Anymore (And They Never Really Did)
It’s 2025. Can we finally say it out loud? Nobody—and I mean nobody—cares about your lovingly crafted, buttery-smooth, pixel-perfect animations. That…
Dear Hamburger Menu: It’s Not the ’90s Anymore
Oh, Hamburger Menu. You mysterious little stack of lines. Once hailed as a sleek solution to messy navigation, you now…
Exciting New Tools for Designers, July 2025
Summer is here, and designers are buzzing about the upcoming Apple release, design changes, and trends that are coming with…
Dear Rounded Corners, You Win
I give up. You win. Take my sharp edges, my right-angled pride, my once-faithful allegiance to rectangles so boxy they…
The 7 Stages of Pushing Pixels: From Hope to Existential Dread
Designing a website starts with purpose. You’ve got a clear vision, a good brief, fresh UI components, and maybe even…
AI Didn’t Kill Web Design —Templates Did It First
Let’s get one thing out of the way: AI is not the villain of web design. It’s just the flashy…
Stop Using Hero Images! They’re Killing Your UX
There’s a pattern that’s haunted web design for over a decade now—one so embedded in our collective workflow that questioning…
Dear Loading Spinner, We Need to Talk
Look, Spinner, we’ve been through a lot together… I know you’re trying your best—endlessly twirling, patiently filling the void, bravely…
Web Design Will Become the Art of Profiling the User
Let’s get one uncomfortable truth out of the way: web design is no longer about aesthetics, usability, or even user experience….
Exciting New Tools for Designers, June 2025
Another month, another roundup packed with design tools that use artificial intelligence features to supercharge your workflows. Expect this trend…
How Apple Quietly Brought Skeuomorphism Back to Life
By now, everyone’s talking about Liquid Glass, Apple’s new design language unveiled at WWDC 2025. At first glance, it looks like another glossy facelift—translucent…
The Figma Fanboy: Designing with Passion, Judgment, and a Lot of Auto-Layouts
We’ve all encountered them—the designers who swear by Figma like it’s the holy grail of design tools. You know the…
The Death of Web Design: Why Websites Will Soon Auto-Design Themselves
Let’s get this out of the way: most websites in one to five years won’t need you. Or me. Or…
This Website Curates the Best Social Proof on the Internet
Something Missing on Your Landing Page? It’s Probably This. You’ve been there. Staring at your landing page thinking, “It’s fine, but……
AI Agents for Designers, Developers, and UX Strategists: What You Need to Know Now
Let’s talk about something that’s been bubbling under the surface of tech conversations lately: AI agents. Now, I know—just reading the…
Exciting New Tools for Designers, May 2025
It seems like artificial intelligence is at the core of almost every conversation in design, media, and marketing. That is…