4 essential rules of effective logo design

A logo is an essential part of your company brand. It works together with elements such as your website, collateral,…

Big brand theory: packaging design

For most brands, recognition is everything. Occasionally you'll encounter a company that seeks to create a air of…

New York Times redesigns its website

In the web-era, major news sources aren’t restricted to local readership. Whilst a city paper may feature some local…

Comics of the week #174

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…

QR codes turn dynamic

When I write about the black and white, crossword puzzle-like QR code, I feel like I'm talking about the stone age of…

Serif vs. Sans: the final battle

First it was the Capulets versus the Montagues; then it was Coke versus Pepsi; and the latest epic battle? Serif versus…

Microsoft abandons Flash whitelist

There’s a concept in web design that is more important than responsive design, more important than mobile-first, more…

15 elegant clothing & accessories websites

The popularity of shopping for items online is greatly increasing. If you ask me why I like to shop online, it's…

Honest logos

Companies spend thousands on logos and branding aimed at putting a positive gloss over their products. But what if the…

France considers net neutrality

The web has grown rapidly in the last two decades and its omnipresence makes it easy to forget that just 20 years ago…

Beyond blogging: WordPress as a platform

WordPress has evolved hugely over the years from simple fork of blogging software to a powerful platform. According to…

How to use the Fullscreen API

Bundled with HTML5 came a large number of API goodness and one of the best was the Fullscreen API that provides a…

Seeing through walls

Human beings are masters at strategically building walls to hide our innermost selves. But what would happen if those…

What's new for designers, March 2013

The March edition of what's new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins and JavaScript…

Facebook redesigns core service

It’s been some time since Facebook made any changes to its News Feed, and like Timeline feature launched in 2011 the…

Comics of the week #173

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and…

40+ humorous print ads

All work and no play, allegedly, makes Jack a dull boy. And advertisers seem to agree; globally, major brands seem more…

A new mobile focus for Drupal 8

Drupal 8 is due out later this year, and already speculation has begun to mount over what's going to be included in the…

How to get TOUGH with clients

I recently received a call from a young designer who I met when she was in art school. I reviewed her portfolio and…

Cool currency portraits

If world leaders were more like-minded, perhaps the elusive goal of world peace might be more attainable. But while…

How to improve site navigation

Stripping a website to its barest form, ignoring for a moment, content which is only text and images, all a browsing…

Astonishing handmade type

When I was in middle school, I took a sign language class. At the time, it struck me as interesting that some words and…

80 awesome new WordPress themes

Whether you design WordPress themes or just use them, you've got to stay on top of what's happening in the world of WP…

Building the StartupGiraffe website

We launched our new StartupGiraffe website a few months ago, and we've been meaning to write a post about how we did a…