Is Adobe Plotting the End of Web Designers?
Adobe is one of the most well-known software companies whose tools are used by numerous web designers. Many reading this…
9 ways to organize successful creative projects
Getting your project organized and easily manageable is always a challenge when working as a part of a team. The…
What’s New for Designers, March 2017
From new tools to code snippets to typefaces that will make your design life better, this month’s design newbies are…
Free Download: 11 Unique Templates from BrandPacks
In this freebie we’re offering a comprehensive set of 11 print templates for promoting IT related services. Created by BrandPacks,…
Free Download: Kitten Typeface Family
Selected by Print Magazine as one of the best typefaces from 2016, Kitten is a multi weight script family with…
Browser Watch, March 2017
Welcome to another edition of Browser Watch, the regular feature that runs down the latest news and developments among all…
7 Design Myths That Will Wreck Your Site
When I was a junior designer I made plenty of mistakes. I believed false assumptions mostly because I did not…
7 Secrets for Designing Great Forms
Almost every website design includes some type of form. From simple email address collection to sign up for a newsletter…
How to get noticed by major brands
We’ve all dreamt about working for big brands. Microsoft, Google, Apple, McDonalds, Coca-Cola…they all have one thing in common; they’re…
Vancouver Rebels Over Generic Rebrand
Many who don’t live in Vancouver at least know the western Canadian city for a few things: Sky-high housing prices,…
The best new portfolio sites, March 2017
Hey everybody, it’s March. I’ve only got one pun for this month, and I already used it a year ago,…
How to Use Tooltips as Microinteractions
Tooltips are potentially the best and most efficient approach to onboarding new users to any given app, software, program or…
Quiz: Do You Really Hate Comic Sans?
You’re a designer: you use Moleskine notebooks, the stickers on the back of your MacBook Pro are artfully arranged, there’s…
3 Months with Figma: Why it Changes Design Forever
Like most designers, I started with Photoshop, using it for over half a decade. From there, Sketch burst onto the…
How do you know when a design fails a usability test?
A handy technique I learned from the wrong job… Years ago, I spent an awkward patch of my career as…
How to visualize a startup’s USP
Common web design problem: Just writing out why a company is special is usually an insufficient way to tell a…
Essential design trends, March 2017
Here’s the point of emphasis… That’s the theme this month. This collection of trends focuses on adding emphasis to the…
3 ways to win customers with content
Content marketing is a marketing technique focused on creating and distributing valuable content to attract and retain visitors, and turn…