How to Improve Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and SEO
Contentful; Webster’s Dictionary defines “contentful” as… not found. Clearly someone made up this word, but that is not necessarily a…
The Designer’s Guide to Letter-Spacing
Letter-spacing is about adding and removing space between letters. Some people confuse it with kerning, but these two are different;…
Popular Design News of the Week: July 13, 2020 – July 19, 2020
Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around…
In Memory of Flash: 1996-2020
We are gathered here today…. Today I write in memory of Adobe Flash (née Macromedia), something that a bunch of…
Grab Free SSL Certificates From ZeroSSL
Like it or not, we’re slowly edging towards a two-tier web: those sites that are secure, and…everything else. There was…
Exciting New Tools for Designers, July 2020
Some of the changes we are seeing with where we work are starting to pop up in the type of…
Popular Design News of the Week: July6, 2020 – July 12, 2020
Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around…
8 Design Secrets of B2B vs B2C Websites
Web design clients come from a wide variety of backgrounds. One day, you’ll be designing a portfolio website for a…
Eye vs AI: Harnessing Technology to Successfully Track User Attention
Attention is the new gold; brands are in a constant competition for our attention. A big portion of our time…
Why Do Websites Look the Same (And Should We Care)?
If we don’t question this kind of design homogenization, do we put ourselves at risk of perpetuating the same mistakes…
Popular Design News of the Week: June 29, 2020 – July 5, 2020
Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around…
Diversity Initiatives in Web Design
Web developers have been the bedrock of any company’s business strategy for some time, and the industry is continuing to…
Show Them Your Assets – Tips for Handing Off Designs to Developers
You’ve been working away at your latest design project, and the client has given the go-ahead on your lovingly created…
3 Essential Design Trends, July 2020
The biggest trend we’re talking about this month started at WWDC as Apple provided a glimpse of what’s coming next…
Popular Design News of the Week: June 22, 2020 – June 28, 2020
Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around…
Case Study: Storytelling Through Brand Design
Lettuce Grow introduced a sleek, revolutionary, hydroponic growing system that makes growing food from home accessible to the modern lifestyle….
Not All Traffic is Created Equally: Measuring The Importance of Traffic Sources & Setting UTMs
There’s no shortage of ways in which you can generate traffic towards a website, and the list seems to be…
10 Tools I Can’t Design Without
No matter how skilled you are as a designer, you need tools. A surgeon can’t operate without a scalpel; the…