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.
Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your Design History?
Design is on a loop; it goes round and round, repeating the same ideas, and revisiting the same problems. If you want…
By Ben Moss
12 Tips to Improve Your Web Design Skills in 2021
There are many reasons you might be wanting to improve your design skills this year. Perhaps you have extra time on…
By Ben Moss
20 Best New Websites, February 2021
It’s February, and the spring sun is finally starting to peep through the winter clouds. While many of us are still…
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Quiz: How Well Do You Know UX Principles?
UX principles guide many of our decisions when we design and build sites and apps. Understanding UX principles doesn’t…
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Poll: Is Minimalism a Dead Trend Walking?
Since the skeuomorphism of the early 00s, the design trend of choice has been minimalism. In fact, minimalism has been…
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10 Best Free Stock Image Sites For 2021
When photographers take images to sell commercially, like every other business, they want to maximize their returns, so…
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Variable Font Reveals The Full Horror of The Climate Crisis
Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat has developed a variable font, that is designed to make the effects of human-driven…
By Ben Moss
Exclusive Infographic: WordPress by the Numbers
What is WordPress? It began as a simple CMS for building a blog, and it has evolved over the years into a complex…
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10 Best Alternatives to Google Analytics in 2021
When you think of installing analytics, you probably reach for Google Analytics. And you wouldn’t be alone. The…
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Quiz: What Type of Designer Should You Be?
How you present yourself as a designer, the core skills you nurture, the type of work you take on all contribute to a…
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Is Twitter Rebrand a Glimpse at the Future of Design?
The CMO at Twitter, Leslie Berland, has announced a substantial rebrand intended to reflect the experience of using the…
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Quiz: Which Famous Designer Said This?
How good is your knowledge of the history of design? Do you know which famous designer disliked computers? Or which…
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8 Easy Ways to Improve Your Website Typography in Under 30 minutes
Typography is one of the most important elements of any site, having a measurably large impact on brand and experience.
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Celebrating 20 Years of Wikipedia
20 years ago, Wikipedia was started with the ambitious aim of creating a free encyclopedia for the whole…
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6 Best Ecommerce Solutions for 2021
It’s never been easier to set up an ecommerce store and start selling. There are a dizzying array of ecommerce…
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Poll: Should Designers Stay Out of Politics?
The Beazley Design of the Year for 2020 has just been awarded to US architecture firm Rael San Fratello & Colectivo…
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Poll: Is Burger King Rebrand a Taste of the Future?
Burger King, the globally recognized food chain with 19,000 restaurants worldwide, has unveiled a redesigned set of…
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4 Predictions for the Web in 2021
The start of the year is always a good time to reassess priorities and consider new approaches, but 2021 is more of a…
By Ben Moss