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If you find yourself lacking inspiration, what you need is our monthly resources delivery! It’s packed with multiple design and development options for you to choose from. Amazing designers and developers release new projects every day, including icons, PSD and vector UI kits, templates, fonts, themes for WordPress and more. So free up some hard drive […]
Windows 10 is now available and it’s the final ever version of Windows. From this point on, Microsoft will cease major version releases and adopt the frequent update model — with new releases as often as several times per day — constantly iterating as the demands on the OS change. Borrowing heavily from rivals — MacOS’ […]
We all need stock photos from time to time. Even when a client’s budget stretches to original photography, sometimes it’s impossible to capture that perfect shot; luckily the chances are someone has already taken it. We’re delighted that our sister-site, MightyDeals.com, has managed to bring back one of its most popular deals ever: an incredible […]
Designers commonly offer numerous services and products, from straight design consultation, to side-projects, and apps. But are you one organization or many? How similar should your offerings look? What brand strategy will lead to the most success for you? What’s the difference between a Volkswagen, an Audi, and a Porsche? They are all made by […]
Speed is usability. To say it more accurately, website speed is a major part of usability. The most intuitive interface ever created by the mind of man will do you no good if the user is pee’d off by the time it loads. That’s it. The article’s done… Ok, so there’s actually a lot more […]
Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, […]
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world […]
We love icons, nothing communicates a simple idea with less pixels, and as the mobile web grows and grows we’ll need them more and more. Helping you fill your collection is this awesome set of free icons from Smashicons. There are 200 premium icons in the set. Our favourites include a spartan helmet from ‘300’, a […]
Understanding the true value of the work we do is one of the first lessons many of us learn. Turning away spec work, focusing on growing the skills that are important to us, and using those skills efficiently are among a few things we all go through early on. When it comes to valuing our […]
Few things are more stressful than a design critique. From that pressure, though, comes new viewpoints, action items, and an overall tighter product. I believe a successful design incorporates lots of viewpoints, and critiques are a great way to collect those opinions. Design reviews should happen early and often. Collaboration is one of the hallmarks of […]
Macaw is one of a new breed of web design tools. It’s one of the first design applications capable of generating clean code, and is endorsed by numerous industry figures. Now, building on the success of their first product, the team behind Macaw is preparing to launch a second tool named Scarlet, with a radical new workflow […]
Landing pages are pages that are designed specifically to accomplish conversion goals. Occasionally, a home page functions as a landing page (though some would argue that a home page can never truly be a landing page), but in many other cases, special pages are created for specific marketing campaigns. Conversion goals can include everything from […]
Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, […]
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world […]
Parallax scrolling is defined as a site on which the background image scrolls faster than the foreground, creating the impression of depth. That rigid definition is at the root of most of the myths about parallax: it’s not suitable for multiple pages, it’s not suitable for large sites, it’s unusable on mobile, it’s a dated […]
Last week, Serif launched its bitmap editor Affinity Photo, and the response from the design community has been resoundingly positive. The streamlined workflow, fine-tuned toolset, and hyper-responsive interface, make it an empowering tool. Whether it will gain enough traction to still be with us in 25 years is yet to be seen, but it’s made a great […]
Last week, Serif launched its bitmap editor Affinity Photo, and the response from the design community has been resoundingly positive. The streamlined workflow, fine-tuned toolset, and hyper-responsive interface, make it an empowering tool. Whether it will gain enough traction to still be with us in 25 years is yet to be seen, but it’s made a great […]
With mobile internet usage eclipsing desktop-based web browsing, it’s more important than ever for websites to be built with an emphasis on speedy page loads and fluid reactions to user input. One important technology we use to achieve this is AJAX, short for “Asynchronous JavaScript & XML.” AJAX allows you to update parts of a single […]
Ok, here is the scenario: you’ve developed a brand-new product or created an extremely useful service that’s ready to be shared with the world. But there is just one snag: you have little or no knowledge of how to effectively sell online. You need a set of tools to help you set up, develop, and grow […]
In this month’s edition of what’s new for designers and developers, we’ve included lots of design apps, startup resources, photo editing apps, email tools, image resources, icons, PR tools, frameworks, and much more. And as always, we’ve also included some awesome new free fonts! Almost everything on the list this month is free, with a […]
Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, […]
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world […]
Once upon a time, Tim Berners-Lee and a few other very smart people made the Web. They looked upon what they had made, and saw that it was okay; but they would fix it up later. They never got around to it. On that day was born an information network so vast, so all-encompassing, that […]
Today, Serif launches Affinity Photo, the highly anticipated companion app to 2014’s Affinity Designer. Whilst Affinity Designer was aimed at vector artwork, Affinity Photo is a professional bitmap editor. The whole ethos around the Affinity range is producing incredibly fast, sophisticated tools that are focused to provide a productive workflow for creative and photography professionals — Ashley […]
Long-scrolling pages are at the heart of the above the fold vs. there is no fold debate. For a while, designers and marketers thought that your most important content (calls to action, contact info, etc.) should be above the fold because barely anyone scrolled below the fold. Of course, this has been proven absolutely false, as […]
Yesterday Google announced the release of Material Design Lite. Not, as the name might imply, a streamlined version of Material Design; rather, a framework for easily implementing Material Design on websites. In the year since Google unveiled Material Design at I/O 2014, it has changed Google’s not-inconsiderable output beyond recognition. Everything from Google Drive to […]
Knowing that we all judge a book by its cover, smart designers create catchy and practical interfaces. Potential users may be hooked, but how do you reel them all the way in? In trying to answer this question, all roads lead to a human-centered design approach, where the user is the prime focus. Be human: your […]
Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, […]
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world […]
I’d like to find that guy who was the first to promote to customers the idea that they could manage their own website “as easily as using a word processor” and give him a good kick in the ass. I think he deserves it. Really and truly. Since that fateful day when the idea was […]
Usability testing doesn’t have to be complicated. There are dozens of options for a design team that wants to remotely test their solutions. To prove that, we’ve redesigned Yelp, with the help of remote usability tests. We ran remote usability tests because they’re fast and affordable. All of these tests were unmoderated, which means the […]
Yesterday, Christophe Tauziet, a product designer at Facebook, ‘leaked’ a shot of what he claims is the new Facebook logo. Reportedly designed by Facebook’s in-house team in collaboration with Eric Olson — the designer of Klavika, on which the original Facebook logo was based — the general reaction has so far been negative. Some commenters […]