Web Developer Tools & Resources
This week, I’ve hand-picked a stack of links that’ll save you time, challenge your thinking, and sprinkle a bit of inspiration onto whatever you’re building (or procrastinating).
The downside of a managed hosting plan is the price. They’re usually a little more expensive than a shared or an unmanaged hosting option. Some managed plans may limit traffic, storage, or the number of websites you can host. For smaller websites or those with lighter traffic, those extra features may not justify the cost.
But anyone who’s actually built a product — especially as a designer — knows that the real work starts long before that prompt. Before a line of code is generated, before Figma files are opened, and long before anything gets shipped. It starts with a problem. A user. A context. And a sense of what good looks like.
Every piece of technology is an interface. Though the word has come to be a shorthand for what we see and use on a screen, an interface is anything that connects two or more things together. While that technically means that a piece of tape could be considered an interface between a picture and a wall, or a pipe between water and a home, interfaces become truly exciting when they...
In the latest episode of “How I Built This” with Guy Raz, Figma CEO and Co-founder Dylan Field charts the surprising milestones in both his personal and professional journey.
Whether it’s a button that responds to a click, a progress bar that animates smoothly, or a subtle hover effect on a card, these details help bring interfaces to life and make them feel more responsive and polished.
No one questions that, in the digital era, the best businesses and individuals try to devise effective methods to engross audience attention and turn visitors into leads. That is where a landing page creator comes into the picture as an indispensable asset in hitting these objectives. Knowledge of a creator’s primary features can make or break your marketing campaigns. This post dives into the essential features that any landing page...
A music-driven visualizer where a glowing 3D orb pulses and spikes to the beat while GSAP-draggable panels drift around it with smooth, inertia-powered motion.
Meet our newest book, “Accessible UX Research” — now available for pre-order. Michele A. Williams takes us for a deep dive into the real world of UX research, with a roadmap for including users with different abilities and needs. Purchase now to get your copy as soon as it’s available, and to save off the full price. Pre-order the book.
Kinsta’s Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Tool visualizes site speed issues. No matter your technical skills, easily identify performance bottlenecks and take action. Unlike our competitors, Kinsta APM is home-built and included free in all of our hosting plans for WordPress. Say goodbye to external plugins or paid services like New Relic.
“I didn’t have high expectations for this career nor did I think I could make a living from it,” says Mexico City-based graphic designer and illustrator Matias Funes. “Life proved me wrong, and over time, my passion and love for design grew enormously.”
Imagine your user is cooking, their hands are covered in flour, and they want to add milk to their shopping list app. They can’t touch the screen. What if they could just say, “Hey, Listify, add milk to my shopping list”? Just like that, it’s done.
In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to build a fun and interactive mesh gradient generator that you can use to create beautiful mesh gradients and add them to your designs.
Social media is no longer just about eye-catching single posts; it’s about creating experiences that draw people in and keep them engaged.
When writing CSS, it’s close to impossible that you haven’t faced the frustration of styles not applying as expected — that’s specificity. You applied a style, it worked, and later, you try to override it with a different style and… nothing, it just ignores you. Again, specificity.
“Having the Webflow badge on Dribbble feels like finally getting that cool stamp on your passport—clients know you’ve traveled the land of responsive designs and survived the adventures of custom web animations. Seriously, though, it’s made landing dream website projects ridiculously easier.”
Leaders dream of teams working together seamlessly, like a dragon boat crew rowing in unison. But in big companies, people often struggle to understand one another because of differences in roles, expertise, and motivations. This lack of mutual understanding can hinder consensus-building and make collaboration difficult.
I mean, obviously they aren’t literally the same, but you also probably won’t be surprised that they have different behavior as well. And yet…. they do kinda basically do the same thing. Two equal width columns.
A huge part of building for the web is making experiences responsive. Usually, we think of responsive design in terms of making sites adapt to different viewport sizes, but what about being responsive to different mediums too?
The Microsoft Edge team is excited to announce that CSS gap decorations, a new way to style the gaps between items in flex, grid, and multi-column layouts, is now available for developer trial in Chrome and Edge 139!
Summary: Overreliance on frameworks as universal solutions rather than adaptable starting points undermines critical thinking and threatens our field’s intellectual rigor.
Responsive web design is the latest trend in web design. RWD uses flexible layouts that adapt to different screen sizes. A responsive website adjusts its layout based on the device being used to view it. In addition, RWD designs adjust their content automatically depending on the size of the viewing window.
When I was a young child, I would often pull books off of my father’s shelf and stare at their pages. In a clip from a 1987 home video that has established itself in our family canon — my father opens our apartment door, welcoming my newborn little sister home for the first time. There I stood, waiting for his arrival, in front of his bookshelves, holding an open book. From behind...
Every year, the Apple Design Awards recognize innovation, ingenuity, and technical achievement in app and game design. But they’ve also become something more: A moment to step back and celebrate the work of Apple developers across the community.
There’s a lot of rumors of a big impending UI redesign from Apple. Let’s imagine what’s (or what could be) next for the design of iPhones, Macs and iPads.
Here, we share our team’s favorite prompts, pro tips, and best practices for using Figma Make to help you get the most out of our recently launched prompt-to-code feature.
Wondering how you can convert a Figma animation to Lottie? You’re in the right place.
For digital-first brands, typography isn’t just a style choice, it’s a core part of how the brand communicates across screens.
Road-tripping along the line between engineering and spirituality, Robert M. Pirsig’s musings on the arts, sciences, and Quality ring as true now as they ever have.
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Are you looking to boost your ecommerce sales with better product page design? Want to learn what elements make a product page truly effective and conversion-focused?
Generative AI is changing how businesses think about creativity, efficiency, and problem-solving. While early AI focused mainly on text and images, today’s generative AI systems can work with many types of data, including audio, video, code, and even sensor data. This shift is opening new doors for companies that want to stay ahead in a fast-moving world.
Import your Adobe Photoshop (.psd, .psb) files into Figma as designs with fully-editable layers, or as pixel-perfect images.
As an increasing number of AI applications evolve to agents doing work for people, agent management becomes a critical part of these product’s design. How can people start, steer, and stop multiple agents (and subagents) and stay on top of their results? Here’s several approaches we’ve been building and testing.
Apple has always designed from first principles. Its most iconic shifts in interface design were never purely aesthetic. They were grounded in physics, material logic, and a careful reading of how users think, feel, and behave when interacting with a device.
Why compensation, edification, and recognition aren’t equally important—and getting the order wrong can derail your career.
What makes an interface accessible? And how can designers create experiences that work for all users? This guide answers all your burning questions about accessibility—like how to design for everyone, even those juggling a hot coffee and a pet hamster.
Within three decades, JavaScript went from being a weird little scripting language developed in 10 days to the world’s most popular programming language. Here are some key moments in its history to show how JavaScript has evolved and where it is headed.
Designers don’t just shape experiences—they shape businesses. But with so many design programs lacking in business fundamentals, these Figma Campus Leaders argue that students should go extracurricular.
Welcome to Fundament, a weekly product design newsletter where we share actionable tips and insightful stories with the worldwide design community.
Finding the right font is only half the battle. To truly make your typography pop, a high-quality text effect can make all the difference, saving you hours of work and giving your designs a professional edge. But searching for top-tier resources can be a chore. That’s why we’ve done the heavy lifting for you.
Learn how to create a responsive, infinitely scrolling image grid with parallax motion and staggered text animations using GSAP.
I appeared on the UNIQUEWAYS podcast with Thomas Girard, an interesting show where the guests are all asked the same set of questions. It was fun!
We often spotlight wireframes, research, or tools like Figma, but none of that moves the needle if we can’t collaborate well. Great UX doesn’t happen in isolation. It takes conversations with engineers, alignment with product, sales, and other stakeholders, as well as the ability to listen, adapt, and co-create. That’s where design becomes a team sport, and when your ability to capture the outcomes multiplies the UX impact.
Over the last six months, we’ve been quietly at work on a new logo, which you’ll now see more or less everywhere we are. Perhaps unusually for a bank, we’re extremely passionate about design—and wanted to lift the hood a bit to share the process behind the redesign.
After years of rapid innovation, now feels like the right time for browser vendors to take a beat to consolidate, fix browser inconsistencies, and let the rest of us catch up.
Summary: Improve AI-enhanced workshops by narrowing ideas with clear criteria, allowing time to prompt, encouraging collaboration, and documenting results.
Each minute, millions of teens scroll through videos on social media platforms. These platforms are designed to connect people, but their overuse among young users is leading to serious, unintended consequences.
AI agents are software systems that take over tasks made up of manual, multi-step processes. These often require context, judgment, and adaptation, making them difficult to automate with simple rule-based code.
Have you ever switched to dark mode on your phone late at night and felt instant relief as your eyes relaxed? You’re definitely not alone! Dark mode featuring dark backgrounds paired with lighter text isn’t just trendy; it’s become a favorite setting for millions of users worldwide. But while it’s great for aesthetics and comfort, it’s equally crucial to design dark modes that are genuinely accessible to everyone.
Get started with this free CSS generator based on the glassmorphism design specifications to quickly design and customize the style properties.
Create bold, eye-catching buttons with the distinctive neobrutalism design style featuring thick borders, vibrant colors, and prominent shadows.
A universal design across platforms brings more focus to content and a new level of vitality while maintaining the familiarity of Apple’s software
User experience isn’t just a function of clever layout or seamless animation. The most impactful products aren’t merely well designed — they’re deeply felt. Behind every successful user experience is a beating heart of empathy.
Has this ever happened to you? After weeks of careful user research – planning sessions, interviews, observations, analysis – you present your findings to the team. Instead of excitement or curiosity, you get… indifference. A stakeholder shrugs: “Yeah, we already knew this.” Another adds, “These insights are pretty obvious.”
We’ve all encountered them—the designers who swear by Figma like it’s the holy grail of design tools. You know the ones.
This comprehensive guide will walk you through the process of hiring top AI developers for next-gen conversational AI solutions, covering everything from understanding your requirements to evaluating candidates and making the right choice for your business.
This way of working takes some time to get used to and isn’t always a fit for everyone, but the beauty is that there is no one right way to freelance. You get to decide, based on your experience and interests, what projects or assignments you want to take on and what you don’t.
Stacks are a new way to build flexible, adaptable layouts in Sketch. From buttons to complex UI, they’ll have a huge impact on how you work in Sketch. In this post, design lead Chris Downer shows us what they are — and why they matter.
As an experiment and way to learn what AI is capable of, I decided I’d co-redesign this portfolio with AI tools by my side. The biggest barrier before was always getting started; this site was built with Bootstrap 3, Jekyll, and a pretty old-school build pipeline almost 10 years ago now. I could barely remember how it worked, let alone think about how to modernize it without starting from scratch.
At Config 2025, Figma rolled out many exciting updates, including a brand-new layout grid. At first glance, it might seem like just another way to organise your designs, but there’s more to it.
Today we’re announcing the beta release of the Dev Mode MCP server, which brings Figma directly into the developer workflow to help LLMs achieve design-informed code generation.
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to turn a Figma animation into a Lottie loading animation using the LottieFiles plugin.
Today, we are bringing you a collection of the best Photoshop effects, actions, and templates that transform photos into beautiful, painterly masterpieces.
This article outlines three practical methods for adding flowcharts in PowerPoint, emphasizing the EdrawMax add-in. It discusses three methods and includes advantages and limitations, aligning with Wondershare’s integration focus.
Get the latest dose of motion and animation inspiration in this roundup.
Designing for neurodiversity means recognizing that people aren’t edge cases but individuals with varied ways of thinking and navigating the web. So, how can we create more inclusive experiences that work better for everyone?
Another Friday, another handpicked set of JavaScript gems. This week’s roundup brings cutting-edge tools, insightful tutorials, and updates shaping the modern JS ecosystem. Whether you’re scaling apps or tinkering with side projects, there’s something here to level up your workflow.
When I think about one of the recent projects I worked on, a question comes to mind: If I wasn’t getting paid for it, would I still take on this project? Would I dedicate the same level of effort and attention to detail? Is this something I love doing, or am I just good at it?
This week: a killer UX framework, jaw-dropping case studies, and tools you can use today.
Not because it was a bad ad; in fact, it had all the right intentions: great imagery, vibrant colours, a happy family scene, and, most importantly, information that mattered.
You can also create custom style variations for WordPress blocks, augmenting what’s included in a default installation. This feature puts you in control of block design and helps establish a consistent look. It also means you don’t have to settle when using core blocks.
The sudden boom in MCP has kicked excitement about the agentic web into high gear. Is this the missing link we’ve needed between AI and all our other tools?
Avoid disorganized files, late dev collaboration, unclear updates, scattered conversations, and assumptions over communication during spec’ing to ensure smoother implementation.
One of the hardest parts about writing down principles is to ensure they’re opinionated enough to be helpful. Here’s is the one question that can you write better design principles.
UX designers work on a wide range of products, from websites and simple mobile apps to advanced and complex systems. It’s often with these systems that the biggest challenges appear: making sure the product is as simple and intuitive as possible for users, and that its content is well thought out and meets their needs.
Have you ever felt frustrated because people just don’t seem to understand your product no matter how many times you explain it? You’re definitely not alone. Most first-time founders run into this challenge. Luckily, there’s a straightforward solution to turn this around: mastering Product-Market Fit.
We’ll break down what separates an AI tool from an AI agent, look at real-world examples (some of them will blow your mind), and help you figure out exactly when and why to use each one.
Getting started with WordPress is challenging. You install the app, log in, and… then what? Many first-time users face this conundrum – the next steps aren’t obvious.
For web designers and developers, Google Chrome is more than just a browser—it’s our command center, our inspection lab, and often, our first line of defense against design crimes. But are you truly harnessing its full potential? With the right Chrome extensions, you can transform your browser into a design powerhouse, streamlining your workflow, sparking creativity, and catching those pesky bugs before they ever see the light of day.
Learn how to use Lottie animations to add smooth, lightweight motion to websites, apps, games, videos and more—with no animation skills required!
After an exponential growth in users and data, daily synchronization tasks started taking hours or even days to complete. Here’s how rebuilding a data pipeline reduced latency to near real-time.
Typography can make or break a poster. Whether it’s promoting a concert, a campaign, or a product, your message has just a few seconds to catch someone’s eye.
Designers love to craft, but polishing pixels before the problem is solved is a time-sink. This article pinpoints the five traps that lure us into premature detail — being afraid to show rough work, fixing symptoms instead of causes, solving the wrong problem, drowning in unactionable feedback, and plain fatigue — then hands you a four-step rescue plan to refocus on goals, ship faster, and keep your craft where it...
Emotions play a vital role in our daily decisions, from the clothes we wear to the apps we use. In UX/UI design, emotions are powerful tools that influence how users interact with products. When used effectively, emotional design fosters engagement, satisfaction, and long-term loyalty.
In today’s fast-paced digital world, choosing the right front-end framework can significantly impact a business’s scalability, performance, and bottom line. React has been a staple in the web development industry for years, renowned for its flexibility and strong community support. However, with the rise of Next.js, a powerful React-based framework, businesses now face a new decision: stick with traditional React or switch to Next.js?
Design systems serve as the comprehensive rulebook for user interface design, far more than just a pretty collection of pixels that need to be in the right place at the right time, they provide a shared language, reusable components, and clear guidelines that ensure teams like ours can collaborate efficiently to deliver a user friendly experience.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is steadily reshaping how industries conceptualize and execute design. For businesses seeking AI Development Services or aiming to hire AI developers, understanding the evolving role of AI in design is crucial. From architecture to advertising, AI-generated design is becoming a key part of how businesses deliver value and stay competitive. This blog explores how AI is changing design processes across sectors, what this means for companies and clients,...
Understanding and applying design patterns and staying updated with current trends are crucial for effective interface design.
Every time I open up Twitter it feels like someone is talking about the new design tool called Paper. So this episode is a behind-the-scenes with their founder, Stephen Haney. He gives a demo of the product and we also go deep into:
Many designers still think in px first when creating baseline styles. But we know intellectually that various relative typography approaches are better suited to our medium in all its complexity. Better for accessibility. Better for avoiding bizarre typographic disasters linked to user preference settings, device limitations, and the unforeseen ways our overwrought styles can interact with one another.
We all want our UIs to feel great and animations can definitely help with that. But how do you actually create a great animation? This article is a collection of practical tips to help you go from good to great animations.
Ongoing work with Progressive helped shape internal tools and led to an impactful partnership when Progressive’s design lead transitioned to AWS. This exciting connection began a new chapter for Balkan Bros, as they were later brought on to design a new supply chain platform at AWS.
In this tutorial, we’ll build a glassmorphism generator tool to help us create customized frosted glass effects. The tool will also automatically generate the CSS code used to create each customized effect, making it easy to add it to your projects. In this tutorial, we will cover how to create a Glassmorphism generator tool that allows you to create customized frosted glass effects.
Floral elements never go out of style as they bring elegance, charm, and a timeless organic feel to everything from branding and packaging to invitations and digital artwork.
Efficiently managing and presenting large datasets is a critical challenge in modern web development. Web applications need robust tools to handle and display data like customer records, financials, or inventory intuitively. The JavaScript DataGrid is a powerful, versatile component that has become the go-to solution for data-driven web apps. In this article, let’s explore why using a JavaScript DataGrid is a smart choice for dataset management in web development.
A quick guide to integrating interactive 3D models into your Webflow project using Three.js.
The web is mired in a struggle to eliminate third-party cookies, with the World Wide Web Consortium Technical Architecture Group leading the charge. But there are obstacles preventing this from happening, and, as a result, many essential web features continue to rely on cookies to function properly. That’s why detecting third-party cookie blocking isn’t just good technical hygiene but a frontline defense for user experience.