Should creatives be unionized or earn certification?
Every now and then, on some blog or design group, someone brings up the question of designers unionizing or having…
Essential tools for every web designer
Every web designer requires the right tools to do their job. To create well crafted original designs you certainly need…
An introduction to Edge Reflow
Edge Reflow is one of the exciting new weapons in Adobe’s ever-expanding Creative Suite arsenal; helping to bring the modern…
April Fools’ roundup
It’s April 2nd, and news sites have gone back to reporting the news instead of inventing it. Yesterday’s annual festival…
Certifications for U.S. designers to become law in 2015
The much talked about step of creating professional certification for graphic/web designers looks like it will become a reality in…
Apple turn to Flash for security
Late on Friday night, Norwegian blogger Ally Tenor posted a number of screen grabs from Firebug that appeared to show…
Our favorite tweets of the week: March 25, 2013 – March 31, 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 #176
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
Arial vs. Helvetica, can you spot the difference?
It’s long been thought that Arial is to Helvetica what the ugly step sister is to Cinderella. Helvetica was designed…
How to win customers, the Pinterest way
In just a couple of years, Pinterest has established itself as the third largest social networking website, behind Facebook and…
New app to get you Unstuck
It may be a project at work you just can’t get a handle on, or an important decision you can’t…
Free download: 500 Vector Mega Icon Pack
Today we’re excited to share an awesome vector pack from Freepik.com The set includes a whopping 500 vectors icons, provided…
How to use CSS3 columns
With increasing diversity in monitor sizes, it’s not practical to design single blocks of text that take up the entire…
Getting started with Edge Animate
In this tutorial, we’ll be getting started with Adobe’s new animation tool, Adobe Edge Animate. Edge Animate harnesses the power…
Our favorite tweets of the week: March 18, 2013 – March 24, 2013
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can…
25 diverse patterns in site design
Patterns can make a website design more interesting and appealing. Often mildly skeuomorphic in nature, they bring an element of…
ESPNU taps into college loyalty
Sports branding used to be about differentiating two opposing teams on a field; it used to be about an umpire…
How to create a color picker with HTML5 Canvas
Creating canvas apps is the new thing, we can even create games with it, it’s supported in all major browsers…