The Latest Research for Web Designers, February 2020

One of the most valuable resources you have as a web designer is data. Data informs a lot of what you do for clients,…

5 Pitfalls of User-Generated Content (And How to Avoid Them)

User Generated Content, as the name suggests, is content which is submitted by consumers, customers, clients and…

5 Web Design Trends For 2020 That Are Here To Stay With Us

We are always looking for ways to improve our skills and services and what we create. Sometimes that desire to improve…

Exciting New Tools for Designers, February 2020

Are you starting 2020 off on the right foot? How about keeping up with those resolutions to learn or try something…

How to Deal with Confrontational Feedback

If you’re putting your creative work out there — be it design samples on Behance, a WordPress tutorial on your blog, or…

3 Lessons UX Designers Can Take from Netflix

There’s a reason consumers are drawn to streaming video services like Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Go. And it’s not just the…

3 Essential Design Trends, February 2020

During the Winter months it’s easy to get the blues, and let that show through in design work with darker color…

20 Freshest Web Designs, January 2020

Each month we roundup the freshest website designs released in the previous four weeks, all with an eye-out for hot new…

How to Keep Designing When Tragedy Strikes

Tragedy strikes from nowhere, and it’s devastating both emotionally, and financially. It might be a motorcycle accident…

10 Best WordPress Plugins for Digital Marketing

Currently somewhere in the region of 34% of websites are built with WordPress, it’s the most utilized CMS (Content…

What Does 5G Mean for Web Designers?

As we head into 2020, everyone is talking about 5G. The newest generation of mobile connectivity has some exciting…

The Latest Research for Web Designers, January 2020

One of the most powerful tools we have in web design is consumer and industry data. It’s like a gauge that tells us…

Can Best Practice Replace Design Research?

Tempting it may be to skip the consultation process, but a ‘first principles’ approach is not going to cut it with the…

Understand Your Users with positionstack

One of the best things about the Internet is that it (mostly) doesn’t care where you are. The person you’re interacting…

How Many Types of X Acronym Are There? And Does It Matter?

One of the problems with coining a term like “user experience” or its acronym counterpart “UX” is that it opens up the…

Exciting New Tools for Designers, January 2020

We typically start the month with a roundup of new tools and resources for designers, but with the start of a new year…

Take Off With aviationstack’s Real-Time Flight API

In our increasingly global world, people travel by airplane…a lot. With rapid turnaround times, unpredictable weather,…

UX For Enterprise: 3 Biggest Challenges (and How to Tackle Them)

When was the last time you created the perfect UX design for an enterprise application? For most (if not all) of us,…

Design from the Beach: How to Work and Travel

Are you experiencing full wanderlust with a side order of burnout in the first week of the new year? Has the…

Does Diversity in Photos Affect UX?

Inclusive web design is more than just building a website that’s accessible for impaired individuals. Inclusivity means…

The Art of Persuasion: How to Handle Clients With Mad Ideas

Crazy, impractical, out-of-budget suggestions are a fact of life for web designers everywhere. A deeper understanding…

Metatags 101: A Simple Guide for Designers

And when it comes to using HTML meta tags for SEO, none of us should be messing around. That said, you know how it is…

Should a Web Page Have a Single CTA?

Does adding multiple CTAs to your web pages just confuse your users? That’s a heavily debated question in the digital…

19 Best Portfolios of 2019

Every month we roundup the best new portfolios released in the previous four weeks. This month we’re looking back at…