Ben Moss

Ben Moss is Senior Editor at WebdesignerDepot. He’s designed and coded work for award-winning startups, and global names including IBM, UBS, and the FBI. One of these days he’ll run a sub-4hr marathon. Say hi on Twitter.

When UX Goes Bad (and How to Fix It)

Designing for user experiences is what all designers do. UX is often thought of as the preserve of app or web…

5 Must-Have Elements of a Successful Footer in 2022

If you want to know how well-dressed someone is, look at their shoes. Shoes tell you a lot about a person’s style,…

Myth-Busting NFTs: 7 Claims Fact-Checked

With all the marketing aplomb of basement-coders worldwide, NFTs were named with an acronym that does little to clarify…

The Case Against UX Testing

Picture a dark office, blinds drawn. Picture a UX designer smoking a cigar. See the light filtered through the smoke…

5 Big Web Design Predictions for 2022

Every year, at this time, blogs like this one like to try and predict what’s going to happen in the year ahead. It’s a…

Pantone Color of the Year 2022

At this time every year, Pantone announces its choice for Color of the Year for the coming 12 months. The last year has…

Square Rebrands as Block

A few days ago, the big tech news was that Jack Dorsey was stepping down from his role as Twitter CEO to focus on…

Facebook Goes All Meta

It’s almost Halloween, so we were all expecting the odd scare, but little could have prepared us for the blood-chilling…

Fighting Your Corner: Assertive SEO in 2021+

The web industry is beset by competing ideals and goals so that the simplicity of numbers makes sense to us: one is…

8 Freelance Project Management Apps for 2021+

In my experience, the biggest challenge that freelancers face — more than winning clients or setting prices — is…

How to Work for Free Without Wrecking Your Career

Choosing to work for free, pro bono, gratis, without charge is something that most of us find ourselves doing at one…

9 Must-Install Craft CMS Plugins

Craft CMS is increasing in popularity, and as it does, the previously relatively scant range of plugins is growing…

Poll: The Ethical Dilemma at the Heart of GitHub’s Copilot

On June 29th, GitHub announced Copilot, an AI-powered auto-complete for programmers, prompting a debate about the…

I Love Typography Launches Font Store

There is no shortage of places to buy fonts online, but the quality of what is on offer is variable, and the way of…

Poll: Is AMP Dead, and Do We Care?

It’s fair to say that AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) is a controversial topic among web developers. AMP is a…

3 Ways to Design More Inclusively

Inclusive design is often mistaken for accessibility, or even used as an interchangeable term, which is a good…

Poll: Fast CDN, Cheap CDN, Good CDN, Pick Any One…

This week, a significant portion of the Web fell over when on Tuesday, sites powered by Fastly were impacted by a…

Poll: Is Basecamp Right To Shutdown Politics At Work?

This week, in a move like something from a particularly eventful episode of The Office, popular project management app…