Essential web design tips for start-ups

With so many new websites and start-ups springing up every day, a high-quality, professional web site is no longer…

How to design from a blank canvas

Most web design and/or development projects have some history behind them. Sometimes you have to re-design or…

Adobe announce new features for Muse

Adobe has just announced new features in their Muse web design app. Muse launched just nine months ago, and in that…

25+ awesome redesign concepts

Not every designer gets the chance to work on a high-profile redesign. In fact, the vast majority will never have that…

Is mobile in decline?

Mobile web traffic almost doubled in 2012, but that growth slowed dramatically in 2013 and mobile has even lost market…

Sensational discount on Verb font family

If there's one thing every designer needs in their toolkit, it's a workhorse font. A workhorse font is the typeface you…

“You ruined the project!”

Who said that? Both parties often do. Both the client and the designer often accuse each other of ruining a web…

Better e-commerce for WordPress

There are a number of options out there for WordPress e-commerce plugins, including both free and paid options. The…

Comics of the week #171

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…

Integrating content marketing strategies and mobile design

Anyone who’s up on technology has heard of mobile web design and content marketing—two terms used with increasing…

Yahoo! redesigns

When Marissa Mayer jumped ship at Google to take over the reigns at the web's second biggest name in search, no one…

How to speed up your website load times

Do you want your website to load blazing fast? This article will teach you how to make your website load faster than…

Faceted enterprise search from SearchBlox

Good enterprise search services are a huge boon to productivity in large companies with a lot of data to manage and…

Magazine design principles applied to web design

I got my professional start in the world of design at a specialty magazine publisher. Magazine layout and design is,…

Amazing mirror images

The Rorschach test is the most widely used projective psychological test, designed to assess and identify personality…

Windows of New York

If Bill Shakespeare is to be believed, eyes are the windows to the soul. Designed to look outwards, looking into them…

What's new for designers, February 2013

The February edition of what's new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins and…

Retro Branding

While Generation Y may be too young to remember, there was a time in the 70s and 80s when the coolest gadgetry was…

Comics of the week #170

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…

Fresh freebies for February

It is never a bad time to have an idea for the web, and when it comes, the best thing to do is developing and creating…

Is Photoshop dead?

I guess a more suitable title might be ‘is Photoshop still an appropriate tool for designing typography on the web?’…

ReCAPTCHAing the importance of UX

Recently, I had the 'joy' of attempting to book tickets with Ticketmaster.co.uk and, I knew exactly what I was in for —…

How to find your USP

Do you call yourself a freelance web designer? If so, you are only partially correct. The truth is that you also need…

Saving a city with a serif

Fonts can become synonymous with brands. Picture, for example, "Yahoo", "Disney", or the masthead for "The New York…