5 Ways to Lower Your Site’s Barrier to Entry
The internet, like most activities on the planet, has a barrier to entry. You need at least one brain—conscious and…
8 Secrets of the Perfect Link
A few weeks ago a frustrated face appeared around the corner of my desk. “Sorry mate, you don’t do any…
Brainstorming the Wiki
Before the blog took off, before Tumblr became the face of fandom, but around a year after Geocities launched as…
10 Data Visualization Best Practices for the Web
Data visualization has quickly become a standard for disseminating information on the web. It’s used across a range of industries,…
7 Ways to Increase Website Security, Without Sacrificing UX
Did you know that the longest word in the English dictionary is 189,891 letters long? It is (and you can…
GoDaddy Changes its Logo (Again), Loses its Daddy
Once upon a time in the long lost world of the 1997 (more or less), a little boy was growing…
How To Design The Perfect Gradient
When you work for a user experience design company for as long as I have, you start to notice the…
Website Pop-ups: The Good, the Bad, and 18 Rules You Should Never Break
A website is a place where a business can educate its audience about its brand. What it does. Why it…
Ogilvy Changes Face After 70 Years
By most terms of reference, 70 years is a long time…70 years ago, copywriter David Ogilvy decided to part ways…
A Simple Introduction to Intrinsic Web Design
Every industry has its jargon, and almost its own language, in some cases. God knows web design has a lot…
5 Common Portfolio Mistakes and How to Fix Them
Your portfolio is often a company or client’s first impression of you. Yet while we would dress up and prepare…
4 Best Practices For Push Notifications
Push notifications are an essential part of mobile marketing. They get users’ attention faster than any other means of communication….
10 Reasons to Love (and Use) Gradients in 2018
After years of flat, material and completely minimal styles, the gradient has made a comeback. Everywhere you look, designers are…
12 Fixed Sticky Navbars That’ll Grab Your Attention
Sticky menus, sliding navigations, fixed navbars…there’s quite a few names for this trend. But they all mean the same thing:…
4 Most Hated UI Tricks
Nobody wants to create bad design, and yet it happens all the time. And while the cause of bad design…
What’s New for Designers, March 2018
Spring is in the air with plenty of new tools, particular color and CSS options. We hope that the change…
Designing For Edge Cases
When we design our products, we often design for the happy path scenario, ideal user flow without any obstacles. But…
Should You Follow Design Trends?
Across all disciplines of design, from fashion to architecture, trends largely define the styles and directions of an industry at…
