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3 Essential Design Trends, December 2023

The end of the year is right around the corner, and with the holiday season in full force, there’s not a ton of new de...

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Case Study: 8 Design Tips That Increased My Ecommerce Conversions By 42%

When it comes to increasing sales for your ecommerce store, there are 3 levers you can pull: You can increase your avera...

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Nobody Waits for Your Fancy Animations Anymore (And They Never Really Did)

It’s 2025. Can we finally say it out loud? Nobody—and I mean nobody—cares about your lovingly crafted, buttery-sm...

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20 Footer Design Myths You’re Still Believing (And How to Fix Them

Footers—often treated like the forgotten bottom shelf of your website’s pantry. Designers pour their energy into fla...

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Case Study: Redesigning Todoist for Android

Todoist is a to-do list app that 25 million people rely on every day to keep their lives organized. As part of the Doist...

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Dropbox Unveils New Brand Identity Microsite

Dropbox has taken a leap forward in branding with its new interactive brand guidelines microsite, a fresh and innovative...

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Surviving the Leap from College to Real-World Design

So, you’ve finished college and are ready to showcase your design skills to the world. This is a pivotal moment that y...

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Do Ugly Websites Sell Better? A Contrarian Look at Web Design and Conversion Rates

When you think of high-converting websites, what comes to mind? Clean, minimal designs, aesthetically pleasing color pal...

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How to Use Hand-Drawn Elements in Web Design

Sometimes, creating the ideal design means thinking carefully about what you want to accomplish for your client. The pur...

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Designing Travel: The Zürich Card’s Flexible New Visual Identity

Most city passes look like something you’d shove in your wallet and forget about. The Zurich Card just got the oppos...

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How to Decrease Decision Fatigue and Increase Conversions

It sort of feels like our lives are nothing more than an endless string of decision-making, doesn’t it? You go to the ...

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How to Increase Mobile Engagement with Simpler Contact Forms

Contact forms are a necessity for websites. Without them, your clients would be relegated to handling website- or busine...

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Enshittification by Design: Why Every Interface Turns Against You

Every great product starts like a love story. You fall for it fast. It’s clean. It’s simple. It just gets you. The ...

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How to Make Gamification Work on the Web

The somewhat controversial topic of the usefulness of gamification in business has been sparking debates recently.One cl...

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Mastering The Product Design Process

To guarantee the success of any digital project, its design approach must match up to the specific issues it faces.Succe...

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The Hidden Costs of Minimalism in Design

It offered a simpler and cleaner design direction for websites and interfaces. Web and app designs became less complex i...

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The Figma Fanboy: Designing with Passion, Judgment, and a Lot of Auto-Layouts

We’ve all encountered them—the designers who swear by Figma like it’s the holy grail of design tools. You know the...

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The Death of Web Design: Why Websites Will Soon Auto-Design Themselves

Let’s get this out of the way: most websites in one to five years won’t need you. Or me. Or anyone with Figma open a...

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Designing UI for the Voice Era

In recent years, we’ve seen various updates to the web design landscape, such as the arrival of AR and VR solutions fo...

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8 Ways to Shipwreck Your Next  Website Design

Ahoy Mateys! You’ve probably noticed lately that your website is looking a little worse for wear. What she needs is a ...

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Everything You Need to Know About Responsive Logo Design

As designers, we’re well aware of the power of a great logo. Ask a pedestrian on the street to draw the Nike icon, and...

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Pantone Unveils Color of the Year: Mocha Mousse

Pantone has unveiled its Color of the Year for 2025: Mocha Mousse (PANTONE 17-1230), a warm, soft brown that exudes comf...

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3 Easy Ways to Use Emotion in Web Design

As human beings, we like to think that we’re rational creatures.We tell ourselves that we make our decisions based on ...

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Web Design Will Become the Art of Profiling the User

Let’s get one uncomfortable truth out of the way: web design is no longer about aesthetics, usability, or even user e...

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Exciting New Tools for Designers, October 2025

So many exciting new tools for designers this month! From AI help to UI tools to collaboration tools that make work easi...

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10 Ways to Perfect Your Newsletter Signup and Increase Subscribers

Your brain is extremely fast. It’s capable of processing data and making a decision with unparalleled speed.Macro deci...

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5 Must-Have Elements of a Successful Footer in 2022

Like shoes, website footers help us see the core of the entity behind the site. A footer is both functional and brand-sp...

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6 Ways Parallax Still Works

Parallax creates an illusion of depth when scrolling, a timeless effect that still has lots of value in the web design w...

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The 10 Most Successful Rebrands of All Time – Ranked

Ah, company rebrands—the cornerstone of any business looking to save their skin after months of falling sales, PR nigh...

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Spotify’s Cryptic Tease for 2024 Wrapped Has Everyone Talking

It’s that time of year again—Spotify Wrapped season is just around the corner, and this year, the streaming giant ha...

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3 Essential Design Trends, January 2024

These three design trends are sure to help you generate some hot ideas in one of the coldest months of the year.Forget t...

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Protect Your Design Clients From These 6 Easy Mistakes

However, what many business leaders and clients don’t realize is that they also have a part to play in ensuring that t...

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Exciting New Tools for Designers, June 2025

Another month, another roundup packed with design tools that use artificial intelligence features to supercharge your wo...

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Pinterest Predicts Design Trends for 2025

Pinterest has unveiled its much-awaited 2025 trend forecast, offering a sneak peek into the creative directions set to d...

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What is the Bento UI Trend, and How Can You Get Started?

The Bento Box trend has been around for a while, but it’s only in the last year or two that it’s gained momentum, as...

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Our Interfaces Have Lost Their Senses — And It’s Time to Bring Them Back!

Technology is speeding ahead at a breakneck pace, but have we lost something important along the way?In a beautifully de...

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6 Actionable Tips for Accessible Emails

WHO suggests that 1.3 billion people all around the world have some kind of visual impairment – which includes 217 mil...

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How to Measure Live Chat Performance

Live chat is one of the most powerful tools for customer experience in the current marketplace.In a world where customer...

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Soft UI: Making Sense of the Latest Design Trend

Even Apple is in on the trend; the company introduced a host of changes in both its mobile and desktop operating systems...

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How to Design a Contact Page that Drives Engagement

How can your customer reach you? If a client arrives on your website after searching on Google, what can they do to take...

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This Website Curates the Best Social Proof on the Internet

Something Missing on Your Landing Page? It’s Probably This.You’ve been there. Staring at your landing page thinking,...

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Kiehl’s Unveils “Pubic Display Type”: The Font We Never Knew We Needed, but Apparently Do

Hold onto your designer glasses, because Kiehl’s has just dropped the font equivalent of a mic drop—introducing… �...

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Simplicity in Web Design? It’s All Smoke and Mirrors

Let’s get one thing straight: Simplicity in web design? It’s a lie. We’ve all been told that making things simple ...

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OpenAI Gets a Fresh Look: New Logo, Custom Font, and a More Human Feel

OpenAI has unveiled its first-ever rebrand since 2022, and for designers, this transformation is a fascinating case stud...

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5 Tips for a Successful Typographic Logo

In this blog post, we’ll dive deeper into the typographic logo approach, explain why they’re such a strong option, a...

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10 Free Resources for Web Designers, January 2025

Everyone loves to work smarter. This list of free resources for web designers will help you find tools, themes, fonts, a...

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Skeleton Screens Are Just Gray Lies We Tell Ourselves

It’s 2025. Your site loads, your API chokes for a split second, and boom: shimmering gray boxes cascade across the scr...

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9 Tips for Better Live Logo Design

For a while now, companies have been experimenting with all kinds of motion and animation in their design choices. We’...

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Exciting New Tools for Designers, August 2025

Our roundup of exciting new tools for designers is a smorgasbord of options, from open source editors to artificial inte...

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The Curious Tale Behind “The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog”

At first glance, it looks like the start of a quirky children’s book or a line from a failed Dr. Seuss draft.But “Th...

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Dear Hamburger Menu: It’s Not the ’90s Anymore

Oh, Hamburger Menu. You mysterious little stack of lines. Once hailed as a sleek solution to messy navigation, you now f...

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Take a look: Adobe’s 2025 Creative Trends Forecast

In a world that often feels both hyperconnected and disconnected, Adobe’s 2025 Creative Trends Forecast captures the e...

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The Rise and Fall of the Web Mascot: Where Did They Go?

Remember when every other startup had a mascot? A weird, bug-eyed creature with a permanent smirk, usually some round, b...

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10 Dos and Don’ts of Web Design in 2022

Navigating the world of web design can be difficult. There is so much conflicting and outdated advice.How many times hav...

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The Joy of Web Design: Embracing Creativity in the Age of AI

Web design, like all forms of design, is more than just a technical skill—it’s a deep expression of the human spirit...

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15 Critical Website Fixes to Make Before Launching a Mobile App

Your target market has gone mobile. Mobile users spend up to 12% of their time browsing on their device, which works out...

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Is It Time to Kill the Sidebar?

Once upon a time, the sidebar was king. It wore a crown made of navigation links, tag clouds, RSS icons, and if it was f...

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Ethical Defaults: Why Designers Must Stop Hiding Behind Settings

Let’s cut to the chase: if your product requires users to dig through labyrinthine settings just to stop you from hoar...

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19 Contemporary Font Pairings

There are thousands of different styles available, so the task of finding the correct one to suit your project can often...

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The Iconic Visual Design of Squid Game: Lessons for Web Designers

When Squid Game hit our screens, it was an instant cultural phenomenon. Beyond its gripping narrative and unsettling cri...

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Should You be Building Progressive Web Apps?

Take a close look at Monetate’s Ecommerce Quarterly Report for Q2 2018 and you might not be happy about the state of m...

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Why Web Design Must Finally Break Free from Its Graphic Design Roots

Web design has always been haunted by its graphic design roots. In the early days, we didn’t know what we were doing,...

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How Gmail’s UX Reflects Your Habits (and Exposes Your Flaws)

Gmail just celebrated its birthday—April 1st, no less. And no, it wasn’t a prank. Google launched Gmail on April Foo...

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Dark Mode Is the New Comic Sans (And You Know It)

Somewhere along the way, dark mode stopped being a thoughtful accessibility option and became a design religion. In fac...

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Exciting New Tools for Designers, May 2025

It seems like artificial intelligence is at the core of almost every conversation in design, media, and marketing. That ...

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Korean Air Takes Off with a Fresh New Look

Korean Air has just unveiled a stunning new corporate identity and aircraft livery, marking a major shift in its visual ...

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The Browser Back Button: Hero, Villain, or Outdated Relic?

Ah, the humble browser back button. It sits there in the top-left corner of your screen (or hidden in your phone’s swi...

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Dogma Kills Design

It’s all in the title, really.I am no stranger to dogmatic thinking. I was once a very religious missionary, and curre...

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Making your Mark: 6 Tips for Infusing Brand Essence into Your Website

Most of the time, it comes down to one thing: brand essence. Your brand essence, or brand identity, represents all of th...

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Web Design & Web Development Salaries Around the World in 2025

If you’ve been in tech for more than five minutes, you know salaries swing harder than a startup’s “pivot” plan....

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Unsticking Creativity: 8 Practical Tips for Beating Creative Block

Have you ever found yourself staring at a blank screen, feeling utterly stuck? That’s the infamous creative block. It�...

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7 Worst Fails in Email Marketing

But we also face problems, the most disappointing of which is people ignore emails, not performing the desired action, o...

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The Layered Aesthetic: Depth, Complexity, and Chaos Done Right

There’s a quiet revolution happening in design, and it’s not about minimalism’s clean white spaces or maximalism�...

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Aqua Is Back, Baby: Run Early Mac OS X Right in Your Browser

Miss the days when your computer made cheerful chimes, folders had faces, and ClarisWorks was the peak of productivity?T...

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5 Common Design Mistakes that Disappoint Users

Designing an interactive interface or a website is not an easy feat. You have to analyze everything about your audience,...

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Is Thinking Outside the Box Still Possible in a Cancel Culture World?

In today’s world, where political correctness, cancel culture, and instant online feedback shape every conversation, o...

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Pinterest Unveils the 2025 Color Palette

If you’re a designer, creative professional, or simply someone who loves to play with color, Pinterest’s newly unvei...

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Why Don’t We Just Use Material Design?

I work out of a small office in a co-working environment. Next to my dedicated space is a hot-desking area used primaril...

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Design Patterns: How to Create Simple Interfaces

There are long-standing patterns in design that help us understand what the user wants and which solution will work best...

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How Illustration Adds Emotion To UX

Pictures cross-language and literacy barriers, allowing people to understand and communicate complex moods and feelings ...

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8 Dead Web Trends We’re Better Off Without

A lot of very smart people have said that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Other people say ...

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Brutalism in the AI Era: Why Ugly Might Be the Only Honest Aesthetic Left

The web is drowning in beauty. Or at least, what passes for beauty these days — polished gradients, 8px border radii, ...

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7 Essential Design Tips for a Killer “About Us” Page

Effective website design conveys crucial information about a company, through everything from font styles, to image choi...

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Thanks to Covid-19, Website Accessibility Has Never Been More Important

The first global pandemic of the digital era is upon us. We’re living in unprecedented and uncomfortable times.For our...

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Designer Problems: “Make the Logo Bigger!”

Ah, the age-old cry of “Make the logo bigger!”—a phrase that echoes across boardrooms, email threads, and designer...

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Colors of Positivity: Uplifting Your Website Design

Why Positive Colors Matter in Web DesignOptimism and positivity in design are much more than aesthetic choices. These el...

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Will Craigslist Ever Get a Redesign? The Internet’s Most Stubborn Dinosaur

In a world where even government websites are undergoing sleek makeovers, Craigslist remains a stubborn relic of the ear...

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How to Prioritize Speed with a Mobile-First Design

By the end of the year, the number of global smartphone users is expected to reach 3.5 billion. That’s a significant 9...

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The Heartfelt Story Behind CSS’s New Logo

In the fast-paced, technical world of web development, it’s easy to forget the human stories that lie behind the techn...

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The Dark Side of UX: Lessons from OnlyFans’ Addictive Design

When we think of exceptional user experience (UX) design, our minds often gravitate toward e-commerce platforms, SaaS to...

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Evergreen Web Design Is a Lie (But Maybe That’s Okay)

Once upon a time, in the golden age of blogrolls and PSD mockups, web designers whispered of a magical concept: evergre...

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How Apple Quietly Brought Skeuomorphism Back to Life

By now, everyone’s talking about Liquid Glass, Apple’s new design language unveiled at WWDC 2025.At first glance...

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Pantone Color of the Year 2021

For 2021, we’re getting two colors of the year. The colors selected to grace museum gift shops, and end-of-year blog p...

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✨Why Emojis Are the Ultimate User Interface ✨

Let’s talk about emojis. We all use them—whether it’s a quick to lighten the mood in a text or a to show support...

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16 Standout Social Media Logos

Social media logos must be robust because they have to be reproduced and recognizable across multiple contexts, from gia...

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AI Agents for Designers, Developers, and UX Strategists: What You Need to Know Now

Let’s talk about something that’s been bubbling under the surface of tech conversations lately: AI agents.Now, I kn...

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The Evolution of Web Design: From Pixel Art to AI-Generated Experiences

Web design has always lived at the intersection of creativity and technology. It’s a practice that’s evolved not ju...

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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 ar...

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10 Tips to Help Video Content Succeed

Understanding why this is the case is not hard. Modern digital marketing is all about engaging with your audience and sh...

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Designers Are Being Exploited—Here’s How We’re Getting Screwed (And How To Fight Back)

If you’re a designer, you’ve probably felt it by now: the creeping, soul-crushing pressure of platforms like Fiverr,...

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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 voi...

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AI by the Numbers: How It Took Over Web Design & Development in 2025

AI isn’t just a neat extra anymore—it’s at the core of how websites are imagined, built, tested, and maintained. I...

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7 UX Principles to Boost SERPs

Unfortunately, what many experts forget is that UX doesn’t just apply to digital pages. That means that you need to di...

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Why Customers Hate Chatbots (And Why You Should Too)

For years, chatbots have been paraded as the future of customer service. Businesses embraced them with open arms, wooed ...

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7 Landing Pages Comparisons To Improve Your Conversions in 2022

Interestingly, user behavior changes every year, and new website design trends should be kept in mind to continue acquir...

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Breadcrumbs Are Dead in Web Design

Alright, it’s time for some tough love: breadcrumbs are dead.And before anyone accuses me of disregarding 20+ years o...

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Thin Fonts Are a Usability Nightmare—And Finally, Designers Are Waking Up

Thin fonts are like that trendy minimalist couch that looks amazing in photos but is absolutely terrible to sit on. Desi...

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10 Homepage Design Comparisons to Inspire Your Business in 2022

Web design trends are evolving faster. Blame the ever-decreasing user’s attention span. The average visitor now spends...

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10 Ways to Pretend You’re Not Just Copying Other Designers

As designers, we’re all guilty of it at some point…You’ve found that one perfect layout, that one stunning design ...

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Why Does Unsplash Need Two Search Bars? Let’s Talk About It

Have you ever visited Unsplash, that go-to treasure trove of beautiful, free stock images, and wondered why on Earth the...

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5 Human Things UX Designers Can Learn From Conversational Design

It seems like magic: you talk to the phone, and it talks back. And if you’re lucky, it says something useful. You type...

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A Brief History of Responsive Web Design

Websites haven’t always been as adaptable as they are today. For modern designers, “responsivity” is one of the mo...

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What’s the Minimum Amount of Security Your Website Needs?

Unfortunately, over half (54%) of the businesses surveyed for the 2018 State of SMB Cybersecurity report believe they’...

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Are Logos Becoming Irrelevant in Modern Branding?

“Logos are dead. Or are they?”Logos have been the visual cornerstone of branding for over a century, serving as a sy...

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The 10 Best Logos of 2023 – Ranked

From vintage aesthetics to innovative new color schemes, we’ve seen a lot of creative logo designs this year. In this ...

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Apple Releases New “Exhausted” Emoji – It’s All of Us, Always!

Apple just dropped a brand-new emoji in iOS 18.4 and—brace yourself—it’s a yellow face that looks like it hasn’t...

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The Designer-Developer Handoff Is Still Broken — why?

Let’s be honest: the designer-developer handoff was never really “working”—at best, it limped along with annota...

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5 Ways to Boost Engagement With Animation

Animation is a fun and interesting way to bring life to a website. Used correctly, it can capture audience attention, ma...

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Extraordinary Things: Where AI Meets Surreal Design

Ever wondered what happens when AI gets creative?Enter Extraordinary Things, a project by Yashas Mitta that brings AI-ge...

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10 “Fresh” Design Trends We Shamelessly Stole From the Past

Let’s be real: the design industry loves pretending things are brand new.Every year, the blogs and conference slidesho...

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Figma Sites Isn’t the Future (Yet)—But It’s Coming for WordPress and Framer Anyway

When Figma announced Sites, designers lit up like it was Christmas, WWDC, and Adobe’s funeral all rolled into one. Fi...

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16 Best Typeface Micro-Sites

Now that 2022 is here, it’s time to expand our font collection. That’s why, after extensive research, we have create...

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Perfect CTA Placement: Above-The-Fold vs. Below-The-Fold

As a website designer, your professional life revolves around crucial questions that might help you to deliver better re...

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Zeroheight Releases Its Design Systems Report 2025

Zeroheight’s Design Systems Report 2025 is out, and let’s just say it’s a wild ride through the world of design sy...

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Exciting New Tools for Designers, November 2025

While new design projects might not be on the top of your mind heading into the holiday season and end of the year, ther...