Is flat design a passing trend or something more?
Recently while perusing some of the discussions that are currently happening throughout the web design community, I happened across an…
Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic pictograms revealed
On the celebrated heels of its new logo and custom typeface, the Olympic brand team has just completed the most…
How to use video bgs for incredible visual impact, part 2
In the previous part of this tutorial, using a mixture of HTML5, jQuery and CSS, we constructed the barebones functionality…
The easy way to answer, ‘Should I take that job?’
“Make something interesting” is a client request we don’t hear often. When Adobe asked it of Kelli Anderson (they wanted…
How to use video bgs for incredible visual impact, part 1
Full screen images used as the background of sites have an amazing visual impact, but did you know that you…
How to design for maximum traction
When someone lands on your website for the very first time, what happens? That’s the most critical point of conversion…
Can space really be negative?
The old saying is that the optimist sees the glass as half full, while the pessimist sees the glass as…
How white noise affects UX
Web Designers are typically thought to only solve design problems and create trendy sites. Little credit is given to the…
80+ free wood type alphabets
An absolute must-have for any typography buff, these wood type alphabets, available as a Flickr photoset from Patricia M, make…
SNOW aims to improve responsive design
The goal of responsive web design is to seamlessly adapt the look and UX of a website to different platforms….
How to optimize single page sites for search engines
When Google and other search engines index websites, they don’t execute JavaScript. This seems to put single page sites —…
Will generative typography revolutionize the Web?
Love it or hate it, it’s getting difficult to deny generative typography’s steadily increasing importance in the world of graphic…