Deal of the week: Full Smashing Library
Smashing Magazine always produces high-quality articles, loved by designers and developers alike. And that same quality carries over to their…
10 rules for designing emails your customers will want to read
Email continues to be one of the most popular ways that companies interact with their customers. As with everything else…
The best free WordPress plugins for August 2014
Ladies, Gents… welcome back! It’s time for another round of WordPress plugins that you might just find useful. As per…
How to design a successful web app walkthrough
We’ve all interacted with an app walkthrough at some point or another. Heck, some of us designed them. But when…
Comics of the week #245
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
I hate design…now what?
So you’ve been working as a designer for the past few years. You’re good at it. You’re successful. Maybe even…
Discover the Web’s best design resources with oozled
“Curated resources for everything design related.” So? “oozled brings together 586 curated resources in 41 categories.” Gaah! “Subscribe to as…
How to make whitespace work on the Web
The term white space is sometimes used interchangeably with negative space, and the concept is the same. Though the term…
Can web animation save flat design?
As web designers, we need to make sure we keep our skills fresh and up-to-date. We don’t need to follow…
How to design for mobile devices, when you don’t have one
Once upon a time, about an hour away from where I currently live, worked a web designer who loved his…
Comics of the week #244
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
Deal of the week: 11 professional email templates from ChocoTemplates
One of the toughest tests any web designer is asked to undertake — and we all get asked at sometime…
The secret to Airbnb’s successful rebrand
Unless you’ve been abstaining from social media this week, it can hardly have escaped your notice that Airbnb, the global…
11 websites that perfect UX by focusing on details
Charles Eames said, “The details are not the details. They make the design.” A website is a composite of details—and…
Free download: 100 repeating vector patterns from freepik.com
We all love flat design, but ‘flat’ doesn’t have to mean boring! If you’d like to enhance your projects with…
50 fantastic freebies for web designers, July 2014
New projects are being released all the time that make us excited, curious, inspired and sometimes a little bit jealous….
The 10 commandments of documentation
Toyota is well-known as the most efficient organization on the planet outside of the human body, and one of their…
How to get started with next-generation website prototyping
Recently I’ve become increasingly frustrated with the current toolset and accepted practices for creating UI and UX ‘deliverables’. In my…