How to create a hipster logo
It was once all about gradients. It was once all about the watercolor effect. I even remember a time when it was all…
The history of typography in 5 minutes
Designer Ben Barrett-Forrest has created a delightful and informative stop motion animation about the history of fonts…
By WDD Staff
How to sell just about anything
You might create spectacular websites, but your efforts can be wasted if your client's sales pitch doesn't feature a…
By WDD Staff
Do we really need another HTML5 authoring app?
Yesterday Google released the beta version of its newest project: Web Designer.
Announced earlier this year, Web…
By WDD Staff
Introducing CSS Regions
Building complex, flexible layouts has never been easy, but CSS3 has certainly taken away a lot of the headaches.
CSS3…
By WDD Staff
3 ways a keyboard can enhance mobile UX
When it comes down to it, user experience should be the number-one priority for mobile developers.
Really successful…
By WDD Staff
Comics of the week #202
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.
The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
By Jerry King
Sound in user experience design
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works...and sounds.
The web is home to…
By WDD Staff
Is Google finished?
Google, the omnipresent search engine, is celebrating its 15th birthday today. Which means it can now drive a car and…
By WDD Staff
Deal of the week: Ultimatum WP theme builder
WordPress is one of the best ways of deploying content. But we're not all about using templates. Most designers want to…
By WDD Staff
15 unofficial redesigns that are better than the originals
As designers, we can be extremely critical to different designs and details. If a designer told me they could never…
55 once-in-a-career typefaces
There are no bad dogs, just bad owners; likewise there are no bad fonts, just bad designers.
Well, that's not entirely…
By Ben Moss
Lootback gives you cash back
Web design resources are often cheap, but they add up: stock photography, fonts, a sound file or two; before you know…
By WDD Staff
Why a portfolio is called “your book”
I’ve traveled to many art schools, being asked to review senior student portfolios, and speak on professional practices…
By WDD Staff
How to get the low-poly look
You may have noticed a common look in many images, not only in graphics and animations online, but also in magazines,…
By WDD Staff
Inspiring typography from Typewolf
If you're looking for a quick fix of typographic inspiration then boy, do I have a treat for you. It comes in the form…
By WDD Staff
Comics of the week #201
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.
The content revolves around web design, blogging and…
By Jerry King
Disastrous logo redesigns
Logos are a different kind of design. They're tricky. They have to encompass an entire company, brand and attitude in…
By WDD Staff
50+ fantastic free tools for designers
One of the very best things about the Web is the great tools that the community keeps on delivering. We love…
By WDD Staff
5 questions you must ask at the start of every project
Most my clients are focussed on print, so I was super stoked to get my first web design client in a long while.
I had…
Deal of the week: Huge savings on stock photography
We all know that the best photos are the ones we take ourselves — or at least the ones we pay a photographer to take…
By WDD Staff
.net pulls the plug
The blogosphere exploded today at the news that .net magazine, the publication that many of us began our careers…
By WDD Staff
How to design news sites
Recently, a friend suggested that I write an analysis of news websites: what they're doing right, and what they're…
By WDD Staff
Perfect web typography with slab-serifs
Conventional wisdom states that body text benefits most from being set in a serif font because the serifs create a path…
By Ben Moss
