Paddi MacDonnell
Paddi MacDonnell is a designer and entrepreneur from Northern Ireland, follow her on Twitter.
20 Freshest Web Designs, August 2018
Welcome to our roundup of the best websites launched (or relaunched with significant updates) this August. The Summer’s…
20 Freshest Web Designs, July 2018
Welcome to our roundup of the best websites launched (or significantly updated) this month. July is a strange time to…
Typekit Announces Bauhaus-Inspired Fonts
Bauhaus (meaning School of Building) is a legendary design school, based in Germany in the early part of the 20th…
How to Survive GDPR: The Essential Guide to the Web’s New Privacy Regulations
With less than 2 months before the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) come into force on the 25th May, tens of…
Breaking the Grid Without Breaking Design
Symmetry is safe. It’s comfortable, non-threatening, and aesthetically pleasing. It can also be very dull. Using…
30 Creative Gifts for Designers, Christmas 2017
It’s that time of year again: The season of peace, goodwill and ‘what can I possibly get…
Is Firefox Quantum Really Any Good?
This week, Mozilla launched Firefox 57—aka Quantum—the biggest update to the browser in its 13 year history.
75% of…
14 Best eCommerce Options for Designers
With Black Friday/Cyber Monday just a few weeks away, it’s time to get clients set up and ready to sell. The list of…
A Quick Guide to Everything You Missed at the Adobe MAX Keynote
With the usual pomp and ceremony of their MAX conference keynote, Adobe have unveiled a whole host of updates to their…
Adobe Reveals the Secrets of Email
Adobe shared the results of its 3rd annual consumer email survey today, and while some of the findings are extremely…
6 Ways Innovative Navigation Enhances UX
There are two aspects to designing navigation: How will the content be structured, and how will that structure be…
Foundation 6.4 Released
Foundation 6.4 has been released by the team over at Zurb, and while it’s packed with tweaks and improvements that…
90+ Best Free Fonts, Spring 2017
2017 may be off to a questionable start in the world of politics, but at least we can rely on a steady supply of free…
Quiz: Do You Really Hate Comic Sans?
You’re a designer: you use Moleskine notebooks, the stickers on the back of your MacBook Pro are artfully arranged,…
75+ type driven sites
When we talk about the visual elements of a website, we are usually referring to images: photos, illustrations, icons,…
50 creative card UI designs
When I was a kid I was desperate for a Polaroid camera: to be able to take a photo and see it—almost—right away was…
50 fresh resources for designers, September 2016
It’s that time again. Here’s this month’s collection of the best free stuff for designers. We’ve got fonts, icons,…
101 best free fonts of 2016, so far
2016 has been one of the best years for type design in decades. The lettering craze has pushed a lot of illustrators…
