8 Best Premium Stock Image Sites for 2021

Stock images are an essential tool for anyone working with clients who can’t afford to hire a photographer for a…

D&AD Partners With Google To Expand Design Education

D&AD Shift is a free design school program for creatives over the age of 18, who do not already have a degree-level…

Proxima Vara Font Released

Proxima Vara, a variable font version of the enormously popular Proxima Nova type family, has just been released.

3 Essential Design Trends, March 2021

March is that time of year where the feeling of newness starts, from the first Spring days to fresh design projects.…

Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your Design History?

Design is on a loop; it goes round and round, repeating the same ideas, and revisiting the same problems. If you want…

12 Tips to Improve Your Web Design Skills in 2021

There are many reasons you might be wanting to improve your design skills this year. Perhaps you have extra time on…

Try the New Material Design Capabilities for WordPress

If you like to build websites with WordPress, then you’re in for a treat. Now, for the first time, you don’t need to…

20 Best New Websites, February 2021

It’s February, and the spring sun is finally starting to peep through the winter clouds. While many of us are still…

Quiz: How Well Do You Know UX Principles?

UX principles guide many of our decisions when we design and build sites and apps. Understanding UX principles doesn’t…

Poll: Is Minimalism a Dead Trend Walking?

Since the skeuomorphism of the early 00s, the design trend of choice has been minimalism. In fact, minimalism has been…

10 Best Free Stock Image Sites For 2021

When photographers take images to sell commercially, like every other business, they want to maximize their returns, so…

Variable Font Reveals The Full Horror of The Climate Crisis

Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat has developed a variable font, that is designed to make the effects of human-driven…

What’s New in Ecommerce, February 2021

There are some interesting shake-ups on the horizon for ecommerce: Experiential shopping, Virt-ical worlds, Au naturale…

Exclusive Infographic: WordPress by the Numbers

What is WordPress? It began as a simple CMS for building a blog, and it has evolved over the years into a complex…

10 Must-Watch YouTube Channels for Web Designers

This article is brought to you by 4Kdownload.com, a suite of video tools that help you make the most of YouTube,…

10 Best Alternatives to Google Analytics in 2021

When you think of installing analytics, you probably reach for Google Analytics. And you wouldn’t be alone. The…

5 Web Design Trends and Ideas for 2021

One of the few bright spots in 2020 has been the creativity companies and individuals alike have exhibited in dealing…

23 Exciting New Tools for Designers, February 2021

We’re going to try something a little different this month; with this roundup of tools and resources for designers,…

Quiz: What Type of Designer Should You Be?

How you present yourself as a designer, the core skills you nurture, the type of work you take on all contribute to a…

Top 9 Tips For Optimizing Images in 2021

The ‘need for speed’ is an essential item on every website’s bucket list these days. And why not? Enhanced speed is…

Top New CMS Plugins, February 2021

Welcome to our roundup of the best plugins for popular CMS, this month. We’re going to cover plugins built to enhance…

Is Twitter Rebrand a Glimpse at the Future of Design?

The CMO at Twitter, Leslie Berland, has announced a substantial rebrand intended to reflect the experience of using the…

3 Essential Design Trends, February 2021

It’s hard to believe we are more than a month into 2021 already. But that means more trends to dive into this year,…

Quiz: Which Famous Designer Said This?

How good is your knowledge of the history of design? Do you know which famous designer disliked computers? Or which…