12 Tips to Improve Your Web Design Skills in 2021
There are many reasons you might be wanting to improve your design skills this year. Perhaps you have extra time on…
By Ben Moss
Try the New Material Design Capabilities for WordPress
If you like to build websites with WordPress, then you’re in for a treat.
Now, for the first time, you don’t need to…
By Simon Sterne
20 Best New Websites, February 2021
It’s February, and the spring sun is finally starting to peep through the winter clouds. While many of us are still…
By Ben Moss
Quiz: How Well Do You Know UX Principles?
UX principles guide many of our decisions when we design and build sites and apps. Understanding UX principles doesn’t…
By Ben Moss
Poll: Is Minimalism a Dead Trend Walking?
Since the skeuomorphism of the early 00s, the design trend of choice has been minimalism. In fact, minimalism has been…
By Ben Moss
10 Best Free Stock Image Sites For 2021
When photographers take images to sell commercially, like every other business, they want to maximize their returns, so…
By Ben Moss
Variable Font Reveals The Full Horror of The Climate Crisis
Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat has developed a variable font, that is designed to make the effects of human-driven…
By Ben Moss
What’s New in Ecommerce, February 2021
There are some interesting shake-ups on the horizon for ecommerce: Experiential shopping, Virt-ical worlds, Au naturale…
Exclusive Infographic: WordPress by the Numbers
What is WordPress? It began as a simple CMS for building a blog, and it has evolved over the years into a complex…
By Ben Moss
10 Must-Watch YouTube Channels for Web Designers
This article is brought to you by 4Kdownload.com, a suite of video tools that help you make the most of YouTube,…
By WDD Staff
10 Best Alternatives to Google Analytics in 2021
When you think of installing analytics, you probably reach for Google Analytics. And you wouldn’t be alone. The…
By Ben Moss
5 Web Design Trends and Ideas for 2021
One of the few bright spots in 2020 has been the creativity companies and individuals alike have exhibited in dealing…
By WDD Staff
23 Exciting New Tools for Designers, February 2021
We’re going to try something a little different this month; with this roundup of tools and resources for designers,…
Quiz: What Type of Designer Should You Be?
How you present yourself as a designer, the core skills you nurture, the type of work you take on all contribute to a…
By Ben Moss
Top 9 Tips For Optimizing Images in 2021
The ‘need for speed’ is an essential item on every website’s bucket list these days. And why not? Enhanced speed is…
By WDD Staff
Top New CMS Plugins, February 2021
Welcome to our roundup of the best plugins for popular CMS, this month. We’re going to cover plugins built to enhance…
Is Twitter Rebrand a Glimpse at the Future of Design?
The CMO at Twitter, Leslie Berland, has announced a substantial rebrand intended to reflect the experience of using the…
By Ben Moss
3 Essential Design Trends, February 2021
It’s hard to believe we are more than a month into 2021 already. But that means more trends to dive into this year,…
Quiz: Which Famous Designer Said This?
How good is your knowledge of the history of design? Do you know which famous designer disliked computers? Or which…
By Ben Moss
8 Easy Ways to Improve Your Website Typography in Under 30 minutes
Typography is one of the most important elements of any site, having a measurably large impact on brand and experience.
By Ben Moss
Should You Become a Web Designer in 2021?
If you’re here, then you’re thinking about becoming a web designer and wondering if it’s a smart move.
Honestly, it’s…
Celebrating 20 Years of Wikipedia
20 years ago, Wikipedia was started with the ambitious aim of creating a free encyclopedia for the whole…
By Ben Moss
20 Best New Websites, January 2021
Here we are into a brand new year, and although we’re far from out of the woods yet, there is a feeling of renewed hope…
6 Best Ecommerce Solutions for 2021
It’s never been easier to set up an ecommerce store and start selling. There are a dizzying array of ecommerce…
By Ben Moss