The key to modern blog design: promote UX by retiring your sidebar
Let us take a look at and discuss the often aesthetic bane of the blog design, sidebars. Sidebars have been…
The best of DesignFaves.com, April 2014
For designers passionate about the latest developments across the full spectrum of visual design, there’s a brand new site that…
6 apps to supercharge your prototyping
Being a user centered designer means a significant portion of my responsibility involves prototyping concepts to gain feedback for various…
Our favorite tweets of the week: April 21, 2014 – April 27, 2014
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can…
Comics of the week #232
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
How redesigning an icon is changing perceptions worldwide
Some icons are so commonplace that we’ve come to not think twice about them—until they’re changed. One such image undergoing…
3 stunning CSS animation effects that will captivate your users
Beautiful visual design isn’t enough any more, modern design needs great interaction to really stand out. Animations in your designs…
Deal of the week: Glober font family
It is a fact almost universally acknowledged, that 99% of fonts are unusable for 99% of projects. So when you…
7 simple ways to build a buzz around your website
Your website looks slick, your products and services are amazing, and you’ve launched multiple marketing campaigns. So why isn’t your…
How to use the infinite scrolling trend, the right way
Infinite scrolling has became a common design pattern in recent years. With many high profile social networks adopting the solution,…
The best free WordPress plugins for May 2014
It’s that time again! Open up your local WordPress install (the one that you use for testing plugins)—everyone has one…
Our favorite tweets of the week: April 14, 2014 – April 20, 2014
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can…
Comics of the week #231
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
Perfect your website with 3 simple UX research methods
User testing doesn’t have to be difficult at all. I’m going to talk about three lean research methods that are…
Deal of the week: 50% off the amazing Typo-painter
Typographic art is all the rage, with everyone from politicians to pop-stars finding their speeches, lyrics and quotes transformed into…
5 fundamentals every web designer needs to understand
We all know intuitively what makes a website look bad: overused bevel effects, corny clip art, overcrowded layouts. These annoyances…
Japanese duo create interactive prints
Bookstores are closing, newspapers are folding and magazines are rushing to publish online. The stock of print media seems to…
Sketch 3 has launched, is it time to switch?
The latest, highly anticipated version of Sketch by Bohemian Coding, has just been released. It’s an application that has promised…