Inspiration
Explore new sources of inspiration, check out the best new websites, and discover design trends that resonate with you and your design style.
3 Essential Design Trends, June 2017
Sometimes a simple design tweak can move your website design from ordinary to trendy. Each of this month’s trends is th…
11 Shocking Designs Straight Out of the ‘90s
The Internet has certainly been through a lot over the past 20+ years. We’ve watched web design change from the most ba…
The Best New Portfolio Sites, May 2017
Hello everyone! This month is a much more colorful month than the last few have been. It feels like designers have been…
Essential Design Trends, May 2017
Making a good first impression is a vital part of website design. The homepage is often the first experience a user has…
The Best New Portfolio Sites, April 2017
Hey readers. I’d go for some sort of April fool’s joke, but I’m having a hard time competing with reality these days. I…
Essential Design Trends, April 2017
It’s all about geometry. The trend is design right now centers around interesting shapes and layers that combine to cre…
The best new portfolio sites, March 2017
Hey everybody, it’s March. I’ve only got one pun for this month, and I already used it a year ago, so I’m just going to…
Essential design trends, March 2017
Here’s the point of emphasis…
That’s the theme this month. This collection of trends focuses on adding emphasis to the…
The best new portfolio sites, February 2017
Welcome, readers. I realize that some of you may have had romantic plans this month, but now that’s out the way, we nee…
7 unique design decisions
I am always looking for inspiration, for great design that challenges convention. This post is all about unique layout …
Essential design trends, December 2016
Do you ever find yourself noticing that a certain design element just keeps popping up? Even those tiny details that lo…
How to delight your users with subtle animation
Happy Thanksgiving to all our American readers!
Animation is nothing new in digital interfaces. They have had an inter…
The best new portfolio sites, September 2016
Welcome, readers! It’s time to look at portfolios again, and boy did minimalism make a comeback. Well, it would have, h…
Essential design trends, August 2016
Color and layers. This pair of design elements has been the driving force behind many of the year’s trends. While we ha…
The best new portfolio sites, August 2016
Hello readers! This month, the line between web design and art continues to blur as more designers adopt the post-moder…
Essential design trends, July 2016
There’s a lot of overlap in the biggest design themes of July. In many of the examples below, you’ll see that multiple …
The best new portfolio sites, July 2016
Hello, Readers! This month, we have the usual mix of minimalist sites, traditional-feeling sites, more than a few asymm…
The best new portfolio sites, June 2016
Greetings, readers! Summer is here. It’s time to beat the June heat by staying inside where the air conditioner is. Whi…
