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…
By Ben Moss
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,…
By Ben Moss
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…
By Ben Moss
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…
By Ben Moss
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…
By Ben Moss
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…
By Ben Moss
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…
By Ben Moss
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…
By Ben Moss
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…
By Ben Moss
8 Freelance Project Management Apps for 2021+
In my experience, the biggest challenge that freelancers face — more than winning clients or setting prices — is…
By Ben Moss
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…
By Ben Moss
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…
By Ben Moss
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…
By Ben Moss
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…
By Ben Moss
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…
By Ben Moss
3 Ways to Design More Inclusively
Inclusive design is often mistaken for accessibility, or even used as an interchangeable term, which is a good…
By Ben Moss
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…
By Ben Moss
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…
By Ben Moss
