Case Study: Confessions from a risky redesign
They say nothing is harder, or more stressful than to design for yourself. Not to be a one-upper, but I…
Prevent UX fails with smart design
One thing that not enough designers focus on when designing websites is cutting down on user errors. That’s a pity…
9 eCommerce design trends to embrace in 2016
In today’s fast-changing eCommerce world, it’s challenging for any web designer to predict the future. What’s new today may be…
What’s new for designers, January 2016
In this month’s edition of what’s new for designers and developers, we’ve included lots of jQuery resources, theme and mockup…
Popular design news of the week: January 11, 2016 – January 17, 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 #322
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
Perfecting navigation for the mobile web
As the number of mobile users continues to outpace the number of desktop users, it should go without saying that…
The best new portfolio sites, January 2016
Hello all! And welcome to January’s portfolio roundup. There will be a lot to appreciate about each portfolio listed here,…
Swiss in CSS: animating the International Typographic Style
There’s probably no style and technology that are quite as well paired as the International Typographic Style and CSS. When…
IE8 is back from the dead
Some site owners may well have been surprised this morning, when checking their analytics, to discover that customers are still…
Designing Adobe Portfolio
In November 2015 I did a little talk at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City about…
50+ fresh resources for designers, January 2016
Howdy friends! We’re back again with another roundup of some of the best freebies available for designers and developers. To…
Popular design news of the week: January 4, 2016 – January 10, 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 #321
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
Usability isn’t just for users
A lot of web developers are making me angry. Why? Because they’re literally trying to make it harder for me…
Matching site design to your target demographic
When creating a website project, it’s always important to think about the end users of the site. Frequently it’s the…
8 ways to optimize your site for mobile
When the world shifted from desktop computers to mobile devices, designers became even more focused on UX. Although the user…
Applying application design to websites
Generally speaking, application design and web design are very different things. The key difference is that typically applications are designed…