Giveaway: Win $500 credits from VectorStock
VectorStock.com have a huge collection of vector files, with thousands of new files being added each week. Vectors…
By WDD Staff
4 essential rules of effective logo design
A logo is an essential part of your company brand. It works together with elements such as your website, collateral,…
By Jason Mark
Big brand theory: packaging design
For most brands, recognition is everything. Occasionally you'll encounter a company that seeks to create a air of…
By Ben Moss
New York Times redesigns its website
In the web-era, major news sources aren’t restricted to local readership. Whilst a city paper may feature some local…
By Ben Moss
Comics of the week #174
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.
The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
By Jerry King
QR codes turn dynamic
When I write about the black and white, crossword puzzle-like QR code, I feel like I'm talking about the stone age of…
Serif vs. Sans: the final battle
First it was the Capulets versus the Montagues; then it was Coke versus Pepsi; and the latest epic battle? Serif versus…
By Stacey Kole
Microsoft abandons Flash whitelist
There’s a concept in web design that is more important than responsive design, more important than mobile-first, more…
By Ben Moss
15 elegant clothing & accessories websites
The popularity of shopping for items online is greatly increasing. If you ask me why I like to shop online, it's…
Honest logos
Companies spend thousands on logos and branding aimed at putting a positive gloss over their products. But what if the…
France considers net neutrality
The web has grown rapidly in the last two decades and its omnipresence makes it easy to forget that just 20 years ago…
By Ben Moss
Beyond blogging: WordPress as a platform
WordPress has evolved hugely over the years from simple fork of blogging software to a powerful platform. According to…
How to use the Fullscreen API
Bundled with HTML5 came a large number of API goodness and one of the best was the Fullscreen API that provides a…
By Sara Vieira
Seeing through walls
Human beings are masters at strategically building walls to hide our innermost selves. But what would happen if those…
By Stacey Kole
What's new for designers, March 2013
The March edition of what's new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins and JavaScript…
Facebook redesigns core service
It’s been some time since Facebook made any changes to its News Feed, and like Timeline feature launched in 2011 the…
By Jeff Orloff
Comics of the week #173
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.
The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
By Jerry King
40+ humorous print ads
All work and no play, allegedly, makes Jack a dull boy. And advertisers seem to agree; globally, major brands seem more…
By Stacey Kole
A new mobile focus for Drupal 8
Drupal 8 is due out later this year, and already speculation has begun to mount over what's going to be included in the…
By Richard Kemp
How to get TOUGH with clients
I recently received a call from a young designer who I met when she was in art school. I reviewed her portfolio and…
Cool currency portraits
If world leaders were more like-minded, perhaps the elusive goal of world peace might be more attainable. But while…
By Stacey Kole
How to improve site navigation
Stripping a website to its barest form, ignoring for a moment, content which is only text and images, all a browsing…
By Dan Rajan
Astonishing handmade type
When I was in middle school, I took a sign language class. At the time, it struck me as interesting that some words and…
By Stacey Kole
Building the StartupGiraffe website
We launched our new StartupGiraffe website a few months ago, and we've been meaning to write a post about how we did a…