20 Useless Websites to Waste Your Time
The internet is usually a place for “getting things done,” but sometimes the soul just needs a little bit of…
How Designers Gaslight Users with Microcopy
Microcopy is supposed to be the quiet hero of user experience: those little lines of text that guide you through…
Dear Hamburger Menu: It’s Not the ’90s Anymore
Oh, Hamburger Menu. You mysterious little stack of lines. Once hailed as a sleek solution to messy navigation, you now…
Dear Rounded Corners, You Win
I give up. You win. Take my sharp edges, my right-angled pride, my once-faithful allegiance to rectangles so boxy they…
The 7 Stages of Pushing Pixels: From Hope to Existential Dread
Designing a website starts with purpose. You’ve got a clear vision, a good brief, fresh UI components, and maybe even…
Dear Loading Spinner, We Need to Talk
Look, Spinner, we’ve been through a lot together… I know you’re trying your best—endlessly twirling, patiently filling the void, bravely…
10 Ways to Pretend You’re Not Just Copying Other Designers
As designers, we’re all guilty of it at some point… You’ve found that one perfect layout, that one stunning design…
Why Every Web Designer Secretly Hates Their Past Work
If you’ve been designing websites for more than a year, you’ve likely experienced a universal truth: your old work is embarrassing….
Kiehl’s Unveils “Pubic Display Type”: The Font We Never Knew We Needed, but Apparently Do
Hold onto your designer glasses, because Kiehl’s has just dropped the font equivalent of a mic drop—introducing… “Pubic Display Type.”…
Spotify’s Secret Star Wars Easter Egg: The Hidden Lightsaber Feature
A years-old Reddit post on Reddit has recently been rediscovered, sending Star Wars fans and Spotify users alike into a…
10 New Year’s Resolutions Every Web Designer Will Definitely Break
It’s New Year and that special time when we vow to become better versions of ourselves—only to realize by January…
Santa’s High-Tech Holiday Logistics: A UX Fairy Tale
It’s Christmas Eve, and Santa Claus is preparing for his busiest night of the year. But have you ever wondered…
Generate Hilariously Bad Christmas Movies
If you’ve ever thought Hallmark Christmas movies couldn’t get any more over-the-top, Xmas.Piclooks.com is here to prove you wrong. This delightfully chaotic…
In Defense of the Humble Desktop
The desktop computer is the underdog of the tech world—a bulky box that screams “1999” while the rest of us…
Designer Problems: “Make the Logo Bigger!”
Ah, the age-old cry of “Make the logo bigger!”—a phrase that echoes across boardrooms, email threads, and designers’ nightmares. For…
HTML Tables: The Layout Hack That Somehow Worked
Ah, the humble HTML table. Once the crown jewel of web design, now a relic that makes modern developers roll…
How to Survive a Client Meeting When They Say ‘Make It Pop’!!!!
Fear not, for this guide will arm you with the tools and humor needed to navigate these meetings with style…
Comics of the week #439
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…