How Scrolljacking Breaks UX Fundamentals
Let’s be blunt—scrolljacking is the design equivalent of taking the steering wheel out of a driver’s hands and saying, “Don’t worry,…
AI Is Revolutionizing User Testing in 2025 — and Honestly, It’s About Time
User testing used to be a clunky, expensive mess. Remember trying to recruit five “ideal users” who were just available…
Feedback Fatigue: Why AI Will Stop Asking for Your Opinion
Let’s talk about the ancient art of the thumbs-up and thumbs-down — once the sacred, clumsy handshake between user and…
Designing for the 1%: Why Edge Cases Aren’t Optional
Let’s talk about the other users. Not your typical, scroll-happy, ideal-case personas. I’m talking about the people who use Internet Explorer 11…
Is It Time to Kill the Sidebar?
Once upon a time, the sidebar was king. It wore a crown made of navigation links, tag clouds, RSS icons,…
The Death of the Double Click: How UX Finally Buried a Relic of the Desktop Era
Let’s be honest: double-clicking is dead. And if it isn’t, it should be. What began as a clever way to differentiate between…
Intent-Based UI Is Replacing Navigation—Are We Designing Ourselves Out of the Interface?
We spent decades perfecting the art of navigation: breadcrumbs, sidebars, hamburger menus, sticky headers, site maps. We crafted taxonomies and…
The 10 Foundational UX Principles Every Designer Should Know
If you’ve ever rage-closed an app because it wouldn’t let you “go back” or stared at a form that made…
Confessions of a Web Design Generalist (a.k.a. The Person Who Does Literally Everything)
There’s a special kind of web designer out there. You won’t always spot them in the wild because they’re usually…
Simplicity in Web Design? It’s All Smoke and Mirrors
Let’s get one thing straight: Simplicity in web design? It’s a lie. We’ve all been told that making things simple…
20 Footer Design Myths You’re Still Believing (And How to Fix Them
Footers—often treated like the forgotten bottom shelf of your website’s pantry. Designers pour their energy into flashy homepages and slick…
AI by the Numbers: How It Took Over Web Design & Development in 2025
AI isn’t just a neat extra anymore—it’s at the core of how websites are imagined, built, tested, and maintained. It’s…
UX Fatigue: When Your Website Asks for Too Much (and how to fix it)!
Let’s be honest: we’ve all been there. You click a link, land on a site, and before you can even…
Designing for Discovery: Why AI and Accessibility Are Now UX Priorities
As web designers, we’ve been taught to prioritize human-centered design. But the web’s newest users aren’t people at all –…
25 Useful ChatGPT Prompts for Web Designers (that you can copy/paste)
Being a web designer in 2025 feels like wearing five hats at once: strategist, psychologist, trend forecaster, accessibility advocate, and…
Web Design & Web Development Salaries Around the World in 2025
If you’ve been in tech for more than five minutes, you know salaries swing harder than a startup’s “pivot” plan….
User Journeys vs. Customer Journeys: Why the Distinction Matters More Than You Think
Let’s get something out of the way: “user journey” and “customer journey” aren’t interchangeable buzzwords you can toss around to sound smart in meetings….
Your A/B Tests Are Lying to You! The Myth of Data Driven Design
A/B testing is supposed to be the ultimate weapon in data-driven design. Change a button color, tweak a headline, and…