Can Design Systems Work for Freelancers?
There’s a lot riding on your shoulders as a freelance designer. You have to play the part of salesperson, project…
Introducing 15 Best New Portfolios, February 2020
Each month we publish a roundup of the best new portfolios, launched in the previous four weeks, by freelancers, agencies,…
3 Strategies to Follow When Your Site is Failing
Here are 3 strategies you should consider if your website is struggling. We’ll cover: Web analytics and split testing In-person…
The Latest Research for Web Designers, February 2020
In the following roundup of the latest research for web designers, I’ve included reports and surveys that shed light on:…
5 Pitfalls of User-Generated Content (And How to Avoid Them)
It brings with it a host of benefits. UGC can greatly increase engagement with websites, as well as shareability and…
5 Web Design Trends For 2020 That Are Here To Stay With Us
We are always looking for ways to improve our skills and services and what we create. Sometimes that desire to…
Exciting New Tools for Designers, February 2020
Are you starting 2020 off on the right foot? How about keeping up with those resolutions to learn or try…
How to Deal with Confrontational Feedback
Sadly, some clients can be just as sensitive, and triggered as online trolls; You recommend an update to a logo…
3 Lessons UX Designers Can Take from Netflix
If we look at this from a design perspective, there’s definitely something about the way the user experiences are designed…
3 Essential Design Trends, February 2020
Designers are embracing big, bold concepts with oversized elements, bright color, and even a little rule-breaking. (The best part? Most…
20 Freshest Web Designs, January 2020
January 2020 is picking up where 2019 left off, with lots of animation and even more bold, bright color schemes….
How to Keep Designing When Tragedy Strikes
If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all! We all have personal tragedies. Sometimes those tragedies…
10 Best WordPress Plugins for Digital Marketing
Currently somewhere in the region of 34% of websites are built with WordPress, it’s the most utilized CMS (Content Management…
What Does 5G Mean for Web Designers?
However, 5G isn’t just set to have an impact on mobile browsing. Changes in mobile connectivity will have an impact…
The Latest Research for Web Designers, January 2020
One of the most powerful tools we have in web design is consumer and industry data. It’s like a gauge…
Can Best Practice Replace Design Research?
Heart-warming or not, co-creation with a client—the utopian ideal of shared vision—has its drawbacks. There are only so many times…
Understand Your Users with positionstack
One of the best things about the Internet is that it (mostly) doesn’t care where you are. The person you’re…
How Many Types of X Acronym Are There? And Does It Matter?
One of the problems with coining a term like “user experience” or its acronym counterpart “UX” is that it opens…