20 Best New Sites, June 2021
Ever since online stores first emerged they’ve faced one big challenge compared to their real-world rivals; yes, it’s…
Poll: Are You Excited by Windows 11?
It’s only been a few days since Microsoft officially followed Apple past the $2 Trillion valuation mark, and having…
By Simon Sterne
Soft UI: Making Sense of the Latest Design Trend
Even Apple is in on the trend; the company introduced a host of changes in both its mobile and desktop operating…
7 Best Browsers for Developers in 2021
With the widespread acceptance of web standards, and the resulting deprecation of browser prefixes, there has been a…
By WDD Staff
20 Best New Fonts, June 2021
Welcome to a new series of articles, in which we round up the best new fonts released from some of the top designers on…
Poll: Is AMP Dead, and Do We Care?
It’s fair to say that AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) is a controversial topic among web developers.
AMP is a…
By Ben Moss
3 Ways to Design More Inclusively
Inclusive design is often mistaken for accessibility, or even used as an interchangeable term, which is a good…
By Ben Moss
22 Exciting New Tools For Designers, June 2021
This month’s new tools and resources collection is a mixed bag of elements for designers and developers. From fun…
Poll: Fast CDN, Cheap CDN, Good CDN, Pick Any One…
This week, a significant portion of the Web fell over when on Tuesday, sites powered by Fastly were impacted by a…
By Ben Moss
9 Amazing Design-Resource Package Sites
Every designer has their own preferred strategy for collecting resources. Some pluck brushes, fonts, and templates from…
3 Essential Design Trends, June 2021
If you are feeling like me right now, you have mixed emotions about the world in general. And this is translating into…
Fiendishly Hard Logo Quiz
Do you know logos? Is branding your thing? Then try our fiendishly hard logo quiz…
We’ve lined up ten logos belonging…
By Simon Sterne
Is It Time to Reset HTML?
HTML is one of the foundational building blocks of the Web. But just as web design best practices and techniques change…
Top Blogging Platforms Worth Considering in 2021
Want to know which of the top blogging platforms you should consider using this year?
Blogging is still one of the best…
Quiz: Find Your Design Career Heaven
Psychologists tell us that by answering a handful of oblique questions, we can gain greater insight into our real…
By Simon Sterne
Start Using a Smart DAM and Image Optimization Stack
Asset management and website performance optimization are two of those unavoidable headaches faced by every website…
By WDD Staff
20 Best New Websites, May 2021
This month we have several examples of brutalism used to good effect as a foil to showcase products and/or work. By…
Poll: Will You Adopt Google’s Material You?
Initially presented as an upgrade for Android 12, Material You is the biggest revision to Material Design since its…
By Simon Sterne
6 Ways Parallax Still Works in 2021
Parallax is a term that is applied loosely and frequently in the world of web design. As a trend, it has been popular…
UX Design Doesn’t End With Your Website
User experience design is something that most of us associate with websites. But why isn’t it something we extend…
Infographic: Squarespace vs Wix
Are you thinking of building a website with a site builder but find yourself confused by the dizzying array of options?…
By Simon Sterne
10+ Cool Pre-built Websites Designed With Creatives and Developers in Mind
Creatives need a digital space to call their home. A place from which they can show off their best work, and from where…
By WDD Staff
26 Exciting New Tools For Designers, May 2021
From dev tools to productivity to a little bit of fun with sudoku, this month’s collection of new tools is packed with…
Infographic: YouTube By The Numbers
YouTube is the Web’s biggest video channel. Hundreds of hours of video are uploaded to the service every minute. The…
By Simon Sterne