It’s inappropriate to ‘Like’ someone’s firing, breakup, fashion disaster, or untimely demise. That’s the conundrum Facebook has been struggling with since it introduced its ‘Like’ button seven years ago. Today, after announcing the move last...
…and how it transformed my design career forever. I’m going to share with you one of the most profound moments in my professional career. My hope is that this little piece will help not just creatives but anyone who is still trying to figure out what their passion...
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art—The Met, for short—has just redesigned its well-loved logo. The Museum has gone by a single letter since 1971, using a straightforward M as its logo. All that’s totally gone out the window in a radical update that’s...
Looking for a website refresh and don’t know where to start? Some of the trendiest elements in web design right now are fun aesthetically and pretty easy to use. Adding a trendy feature to your current design, or new build, can help create a modern vibe that can help...
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...
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...
In a move that’s a first in the company’s history, PayPal has redesigned its mobile apps completely from scratch. The bold decision comes as PayPal seeks to satisfy various business goals. The redesigned apps feature a more thorough framework on the back end,...
Usability testing is sometimes one of those things that designers conveniently ‘forget’ about. Why? Well do a search for it. Usability testing, as it is generally practiced, costs money. There are interviews to perform, a variety of tests to create for each...
One of Microsoft’s biggest challenges is to try and ensure that Outlook remains competitive against Google’s Gmail. To that end, it’s rolled out new features for its Outlook web app that are now available to everybody. The features include new design-related...
So what’s going on with grid systems? I mean Flexbox is here. It’s ready, the browsers are (more or less) ready. It’s about time. We can vertically and horizontally center anything without CSS transform hacks! Plus, there’s all that other stuff Flexbox can do....
One of the biggest gripes that designers and developers face today is working with responsive design. While this design style is a boon for users everywhere—ensuring that they see content displayed properly across all devices—designing for it can be a bit of...
With mobile becoming the platform of choice for more users these days, gestures are becoming more relevant than ever. Those little actions that enable interaction with a mobile device, gestures are given little thought by users because they’re focusing more...
Tim, I could not agree more! My split-second first reaction to the new logo, which was the red letters on a white background, can best be described as fear, not the...