Design fundamentals: constraints
The concept of constraints in design can be defined as the practice of limiting user actions on a system. Constraints…
10 things HBO’s Girls can teach you about design
Even if you haven’t seen the show, you’ve almost certainly heard of HBO’s hit Girls, created by and starring Lena…
Our favorite tweets of the week: January 28, 2012 – February 3, 2013
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can…
How to upsell your clients
Have you ever just finished a project and wondered: How can I do more for this client? or perhaps you…
Scotch tape photography
Parents who leave their kids alone with seemingly innocuous items like glue and sticky tape will certainly live to regret…
Pinterest redesigns
Pinterest have just announced on their blog that they will be experimenting with a new look using a small group…
Web IDEs: the future of coding
Still using desktop code editors? Web integrated development environments (IDEs) are a new way to build your web projects directly…
Typographic furniture
While typography is typically a two-dimensional proposition, the communication design students at the University of Applied Science in Dusseldorf have…
Superb redesign will save lives
One of the most challenging briefs any designer can take on is to design for a cross-cultural organization that needs…
The new rules of the responsive web
Responsive web design has become a near ubiquitous buzzword on the web. Try searching for #rwd on Twitter to find…
Our favorite tweets of the week: January 21, 2012 – January 27, 2013
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can…
Comics of the week #166
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
19 approaches to color
With over 9 billion indexed sites on the web and counting, sites are having to do more to get noticed…
How to manage deadlines
Freelancers (and anyone else who works for him or herself) know that the tide of work ebbs and flows. There’s…
How to find your niche
Are you trying to grow your freelance web development or design business? Do you want to spend more time designing…
Punk rock + Swiss modernism combined
I’m a huge fan of punk rock, particularly punk bands from the 70s and 80s. And I think it’s safe…
Free WordPress themes!
A lot of us can never get enough WordPress themes. It’s not like we get a merit badge for having…
How to build user confidence in your UI
The key to great user interface design is user confidence. But designing user confidence isn’t the easiest thing in the…