Should You be Building Progressive Web Apps?
Take a close look at Monetate’s Ecommerce Quarterly Report for Q2 2018 and you might not be happy about the…
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…
The Hidden Costs of Minimalism in Design
It offered a simpler and cleaner design direction for websites and interfaces. Web and app designs became less complex in…
How to Make Gamification Work on the Web
The somewhat controversial topic of the usefulness of gamification in business has been sparking debates recently. One claim is that…
Dogma Kills Design
It’s all in the title, really. I am no stranger to dogmatic thinking. I was once a very religious missionary,…
15 Critical Website Fixes to Make Before Launching a Mobile App
Your target market has gone mobile. Mobile users spend up to 12% of their time browsing on their device, which…
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,…