Can web design stand the test of time?
2016 marks my twentieth year as a web designer. While it’s crazy to think that so much time has gone…
Divi 3.0 introduces a new editing experience
Elegant Themes released Divi 3.0 today. It’s the largest update of their flagship WordPress theme until now. Divi 3.0 introduces…
9 ways to wow users with email
Email marketing might be one of the most effective ways of reaching out to your prospects with your marketing campaigns….
50 fresh resources for designers, September 2016
It’s that time again. Here’s this month’s collection of the best free stuff for designers. We’ve got fonts, icons, brushes,…
Popular design news of the week: August 29, 2016 – September 4, 2016
I Quit Freelancing This Could Be Mozilla’s Next Logo Prismic.io: CMS Backend for your Websites 5 Design Jobs that won’t…
Comics of the week #355
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
Poll: Should designers just…design?
Every single designer reading this runs a blog, or at the very least a Medium account; around 5% (wildly anecdotal…
Prototyping for the web with Framer
Framer is a really powerful tool that can prototype anything you can think of but if you take a look…
5 freelance tests you’re probably failing
Marketing is a waste of time. At least that’s how it feels for many designers. They’re not getting enough traffic,…
Fixing JPEG’s “Photocopier Effect” problem
If you make a copy of a copy of a copy, the quality will deteriorate with each subsequent version in…
Essential design trends, August 2016
Color and layers. This pair of design elements has been the driving force behind many of the year’s trends. While…
Popular design news of the week: August 22, 2016 – August 28, 2016
Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around…
Comics of the week #354
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
Twitter’s new button lets users DM you direct from your site
Twitter wants to be your everything. In the grand tradition of social networks since time immemorial (read: the mid-‘90s?), Twitter…
The rise and rise of the brutalist design trend
Brutalism in web design is raw, rough, unpolished and everything that today’s standard of the aesthetically beautiful website isn’t. It…
5 ways to feel like a design rock star, working as a roadie
There are many reasons to love being a web designer. Personally, my favorite part is the creative process. I love…
Google moves to restrict advertising
Do you hate it when ads straight up block access to the content you want to see? Well Google does…
Introducing CSS’ new font-display property
We take web fonts for granted these days. We didn’t always have the option of setting our text in almost…