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…
The 30 Best Fonts of 2024
2024 has been a great year for type design. Over the past few years geometric sans have been less apparent,…
3 Essential Design Trends, December 2024
And just like that, we are closing in on the end of 2024. The trends keep on coming, though, as…
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…
30 Most Exciting New Tools For Designers, December 2024
2024 has seen an explosion in AI-powered tools and services, some genuinely helpful, others simply bandwagon jumping. It is clear…
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…
Blast from the Past: 2Advanced.com
In the early 2000s, the internet was undergoing a massive transformation. Websites were no longer static, text-heavy pages but were…
20 Best New Websites, November 2024
Welcome to November’s new sites collection. Minimalism continues to be a dominant trend among well designed websites, but it is…
Exciting New Tools For Designers, November 2024
Welcome to our latest toolkit collection. As always, we’ve aimed for a range of apps, utilities, and services to help…
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…
20 Best New Websites, October 2024
Something we’re seeing more and more of is the ‘customizable’ site. Most often, this means a button to swap between…
Exciting New Tools for Designers, October 2024
We’ve got goodies for designers, developers, SEO-ers, content managers, and those of you who wear multiple hats. And, of course,…
20 Best New Websites, September 2024
Welcome to this collection of what has been catching our eye on the web over the past month. We have…
Exciting New Tools for Designers, September 2024
Welcome to September’s toolbox. This time around we are aiming to simplify life, with some light and fast analytics, an…
20 Best New Websites, August 2024
Welcome to our collection of sites to inspire you this month. The overarching theme in this selection is simplicity. Minimalism…
3 Essential Design Trends, August 2024
There’s something new to learn with each of this month’s featured website design trends. Let’s dig in! As all the…