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.

Is it time to go freelance?

There’s a tendency within the design community to depict freelancing as a goal to be achieved. Who wouldn’t want to lie…

Is responsive design killing your creativity?

When we talk about web design in 2017, we’re really talking about responsive web design. In just over six years, the…

7 design predictions for 2017, that might actually happen

Every year, blogs like this one try to predict what’s going to happen in our industry over the next 12 months. Design…

Poll: When will you start using CSS Grid Layout?

January is the time most of us cease reflecting on the year gone by, and start looking to the months ahead. It seems…

Poll: Is VR the new Flash?

“Wow!” is the usual response on trying VR for the first time. Even after spending hours in a headset, the experience is…

WeTransfer reveals new brand identity and UI

WeTransfer is one of the mostly widely admired start-ups of the last decade. In many ways it embodies what we tell our…

Shutterstock takes a bite out of Adobe’s stock

When Adobe announced it was moving into the stock image market, the biggest benefit it brought to the table was tight…

Email finally wakes up to responsive design

Email is far older than the web; introduced in 1972, anyone who’s ever tried designing for email can be forgiven for…

Poll: Should designers just…design?

Every single designer reading this runs a blog, or at the very least a Medium account; around 5% (wildly anecdotal…

Adobe Typekit unveils major redesign

Adobe Typekit has just released a long-overdue update to its font browsing interface. Currently still in beta, the new…

I’m not a UX Designer, and neither are you

In the last few years the term User Experience has come to the fore, and with it we’ve seen the rise of the UX…

Poll: Is Twitter verification a good thing?

One of the biggest bugbears of social media is trolling: attacking individuals based on race, religion, gender, sexual…

Atomic streamlines integration for Sketch users

Launched this week, Atomic’s new plugin for Sketch is a free addition that streamlines artwork transfer between the two…

Poll: Are we on the brink of a design revolution?

In the last couple of years we’ve noticed more and more websites following the same basic format. This is typically…

Adobe reveal major Creative Cloud update

Adobe has just released a major update to its Creative Cloud apps. Updates have been made to Adobe Stock, and Creative…

Poll: Do redesigns do more harm than good?

More than any other medium, the web offers the opportunity to redesign, republish, reedit, revamp, and redo our work…

Wix announces AI-designed websites

Website builder Wix has just announced the release of a system it has dubbed “Artificial Design Intelligence”—or “ADI”…

Poll: Are pop-ups here to stay?

Despite valiant efforts to come up with an alternative approach, pop-ups still infest the web. It seems like every site…