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Channel 4 is today launching a major brand redesign. Masterminded by 4Creative, Channel 4’s in-house creative agency, the new identity is brave, bizarre, and striking. The broadcast media landscape is a much more complicated place than it was ten years ago, so there’s a need to stand out more than ever before. — John Allison, 4Creative […]
The Huffington Post used yesterday’s Advertising Week event in New York to announce the first major redesign in its ten year history. The new design was produced in collaboration with design company Code and Theory, whose previous projects include designs for Bloomberg, the L.A. Times, and Mashable. The site is a global leader in news, with […]
Web forms are the scourge of many a designer, and by extension, their clients. Forms play a vital role on any site because they’re how sites gather all-important info during the checkout process, or lead information on landing pages. If you want to please your clients and boost their sites’ conversion rates, there’s perhaps nothing more significant […]
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 […]
According to recent research published on Internet Retailer, mobile commerce now accounts for 30% of all U.S. e-commerce; and mobile commerce is expected to grow 2.58 times faster than total e-commerce sales in 2015. This is in line with data that shows that mobile internet usage has now exceeded PC usage, with mobile devices currently […]
The short answer is “yes”, but it is not as straight forward as that; not all web designers need to be UX designers or UI designers, but they should all have some sort of basic UX understanding since their designs play a significant part in how users experience a product or service. Why is UX […]
To celebrate their 20th birthday, Opera are launching a new brand identity, the most visually striking element of which, is their new logo. Gone is the familiar high-contrast ‘O’, to be replaced with a chunky, three dimensional ring; intended to convey the idea of Opera as a conduit to the Web, and to the information, […]
Let me say this first: flexbox is easy. Whether it’s because of early-adoption issues, or because we’ve learned to think in terms of floats and blocks, I often hear from web designers that they think Flexbox is complex to implement. But I repeat: flexbox is easy. There’s one trick to understanding flexbox which I’ll teach […]
If there’s a common question that web designers ask themselves, it’s usually: How can I improve user experience? User experience is always front and center—or at least it should be—in design; without users to read or view that content, click that call to action, or sign up on that form, no website would have a purpose. […]
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 […]
You can’t have too many icons, especially when they’re as lovingly crafted as these 40 fantastic ‘Illustricons’, and they’re free to download for WebdesignerDepot readers courtesy of Sliceberry. The colorful, cartoon-like icons are the perfect remedy to dour minimalist icon trends. Packed with personality each icon has a ton of detail to enjoy. Much more than […]
Atomic is a new breed of design app, that bridges the gaps left by traditional artwork applications like Sketch, or Photoshop. It launched yesterday, after four months of public beta testing, during which time over 30,000 designers put it through its paces. As web designers, our role is to design interactive experiences, so it’s crazy […]
Successful startups are known for their disruptive approach, so it’s interesting to see how so many innovative companies are surprisingly conservative (and sometimes sloppy) when it comes to their pitch deck — a curious fact considering the design and development resources at their disposal. I had some success in the past with a pitch deck […]
Launched in May this year, GoDaddy’s Pro Program is a service for web designers and developers, enabling them to easily manage client projects within GoDaddy’s ecosystem. Built from the ground up for small web agencies and freelancers, the service is centered on a dedicated dashboard that allows you to manage all of your clients’ sites […]
In this month’s edition of what’s new for designers and developers, we’ve included lots of color resources, startup resources, educational tools, email tools, JavaScript resources, icons, inspiration sources, CSS resources, 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 […]
I spend a lot of time sitting, because I live on the Internet. I design websites for it, I write articles for it, and I spend most of my free time on it… or on video games. If you’re like me, then your butt is in a chair for eight to twelve hours a day, […]
Yesterday’s Apple keynote introduced changes to a range of Apple devices, but only one new product was announced: the Apple Pencil, a stylus designed for use with the iPad Pro. Much has been made of the fact that Steve Jobs dismissed styluses back in 2007: “Who wants a stylus? You have to get em’, put […]
You probably know by now that mobile has taken off, and there’s no stopping it anytime soon. What you probably didn’t know is just how popular mobile really is. In fact, did you know that the number of mobile users has already overtaken the number of traditional, desktop users? It’s true! According to comScore, an […]
Every site has a goal, whether it’s making more money, building a client list, or getting a customer to pick up a phone and call. To achieve those goals you need your users to emotionally engage with your site. You might think that your calls to action are prompting user interaction, but every call to action […]
A/B testing is frequently billed as a scientific way to validate design decisions. Occasionally referred to as split testing, A/B testing is a simple process that on the surface appears to promise concrete results: Create two variations on a design element, randomly swap them on your site and record how your users react, compare the […]
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 […]
This week, the Web’s been falling in love with Font Flame. Billed as the ‘Tinder’ for typefaces, it’s an addictive little site that asks you to judge font pairings. You can love or hate the combinations that are randomly presented, all drawn from Google’s free font library. If you love a combination, it will be saved […]
There are always new webdesign trends gaining momentum. Who could forget parallax scrolling from a few years ago, which is still popular today? As of late, long-scrolling pages are getting more attention from site visitors. One trend that’s not gotten as much recognition as many others, and has been around for a little while already, is […]
Divi 2.5 is the latest release from Elegant Themes. The Divi theme is designed to create beautiful WordPress websites with no need to understand code at all. Regular updates from the Elegant Themes team have made Divi one of the most popular WordPress builders on the market; Divi powers thousands of business sites globally, with […]
Today, Google released an update to its logo which it describes as: “simple, uncluttered, colorful, friendly”. The discernibly scrappy dotcom-era style has been replaced by a simpler, geometric sans-serif, with only the famous blue, red, yellow, blue, green, red color sequence surviving. The new design is a vast improvement aesthetically, but it’s unlikely it will stand the […]
Here we go again with another fresh set of awesome freebies for your delectation. This month you’ll find unique icons, high-resolution mockups and templates, neatly crafted HTML themes and UI kits for many purposes, crazy and stylish fonts, brand-new coding snippets and some exciting new tools. And as always, if you think we missed one of your […]