Ben Moss
Ben Moss has designed and coded work for award-winning startups, and global names including IBM, UBS, and the FBI. When he’s not in front of a screen he’s probably out trail-running.
How good is Google’s new logo?
Today, Google released an update to its logo which it describes as: “simple, uncluttered, colorful, friendly”. The…
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Do designers need a hippocratic oath?
Designers are increasingly in demand, as the sheer amount of stuff that needs designing grows. But too often, we’re so…
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4 ways Windows 10 will impact web design
Windows 10 is now available and it’s the final ever version of Windows. From this point on, Microsoft will cease major…
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Interview: Macaw’s Tom Giannattasio talks Scarlet, workflow, & live design environments
Macaw is one of a new breed of web design tools. It’s one of the first design applications capable of generating clean…
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Interview: Ash Hewson talks Affinity Photo
Last week, Serif launched its bitmap editor Affinity Photo, and the response from the design community has been…
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Serif releases Affinity Photo
Today, Serif launches Affinity Photo, the highly anticipated companion app to 2014’s Affinity Designer. Whilst Affinity…
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Google unveils Material Design Lite
Yesterday Google announced the release of Material Design Lite. Not, as the name might imply, a streamlined version of…
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Facebook reveals new logo
Yesterday, Christophe Tauziet, a product designer at Facebook, shared a shot of the new Facebook logo.
Reportedly…
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Adobe releases major Creative Cloud update
Adobe have just rolled out a major update to their Creative Cloud suite of design tools. In addition to the usual bug…
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Safari 9: Everything web designers need to know now
Yesterday’s keynote at the Apple WWDC featured two new OS. The new MacOS is named El Capitan after a rock formation in…
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Aol.com redesigns mobile-first
Very few of the major players from the Web’s early days are still with us. Business models that thrived in the days of…
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How to successfully combine typefaces
Combining typefaces is one of the most challenging skills for a designer to master. Setting two fonts together in the…
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Designing patterns: the biggest web trend of 2015 so far
2015 has inherited a lot of trends from previous years, there’s been a steady evolution of ideas — Flat Design into…
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Microsoft Edge: What designers need to know
This week Microsoft introduced its new browser, Edge, the project that had formerly been known as Project…
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Is Neue Haas Unica the perfect grotesk for the Web?
This week, the Web went giddy at the knees over the release of Monotype’s Neue Haas Unica. The typeface is a redesign…
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Discovery of 2nd web has wide-ranging consequences for net neutrality
In the last year there’s been an increasingly passionate debate over the possibility of a two-tier internet. However,…
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The future of responsive web design
It’s almost incomprehensible in 2015 to build a website that isn’t responsive. The technique has developed to the point…
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Is it time to embrace responsive branding?
Consistency, we’re taught, is the hallmark of quality. Whether it’s in copywriting or color, layout or lettering,…
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