19 Contemporary Font Pairings for 2019
There are thousands of different styles available, so the task of finding the correct one to suit your project can…
How to Increase Mobile Engagement with Simpler Contact Forms
Contact forms are a necessity for websites. Without them, your clients would be relegated to handling website- or business-related matters…
8 Ways to Shipwreck Your Next Website Design
Ahoy Mateys! You’ve probably noticed lately that your website is looking a little worse for wear. What she needs is…
Designing Mobile Websites for Voice Search
In January 2018 alone, consumers conducted over 1 billion voice searches. By 2020, it’s estimated that 30% of all online…
Unofficial Pantone Color for 2020 Revealed
2019’s official color is named Living Coral, and it’s a nice idealized shade of red coral under blue water. The…
Slack Adopts Generic New Identity
So it’s entirely understandable that when Slack revealed its new logo this week, there was a knee-jerk reaction from the…
The Right & Wrong Way to Use Templates
I’m a big fan of templates. They’re an essential part of any productive designer’s workflow and they can also be…
5 Ways to Design for Large Viewports
Web designers have typically always been big-picture people, in that they like having really big screens in front of them….
Designing the Emotional Interfaces of the Future
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made…
Content Management is Design
Content management is design. I usually try to start an article with some sort of joke or metaphor for flavor,…
How to Add Innovation to UI Design Patterns
Researchers have known for some time that human behavior happens in patterns. Rather than seek out new ways to interact…
5 Trends of Voice UI Design
At its core, the concept of interaction was always about communication. Human-Computer Interaction has never been about graphical user interfaces,…
5 Principles of Cuteness in Web Design
Okay, how in the heck do you make something “cute”? Now maybe you’ve grown up in an environment where getting…
10 Tips for Building a Visual Language
A visual language is just like any other form of communication. Where “language” refers to spoken or written communication, visual…
9 Fictional Websites Reviewed
There’s a moment that every tech nerd in every corner of the tech industry knows all too well. It’s that…
The Landing Page at 15: Grown up and Professional
Tech folklore has it that the landing page was born in late 2003, when Microsoft created the concept in response…
5 Secrets of Image-Rich Websites
When was the last time you visited a website with no images? As web designers, we love adding images to…
Mailchimp Unveils Quirky Rebrand
Now, with their latest rebrand courtesy of brand agency Collins (as ever, alongside an in-house team) Mailchimp has got almost…