3 responsive design disasters — and how to avoid them

Responsive design methods are very helpful to developers because they allow us to serve content to the widest range of…

Does responsive web design make you more money?

Getting your website mobile-ready is attracting a lot of attention of late. Just yesterday Google rolled out a hefty…

The best free WordPress plugins for mobile websites

If there’s anything that’s been well-established over the past few years, it’s the importance of catering to mobile…

How to transition from web design to your own startup

As a web designer, you have an enviable skill set for starting a business online. Web designers are exposed to a wide…

Comics of the week #283

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

How Google’s mobile-friendly update will affect you (and what you can do about it)

If your website, or your clients’ websites are non-responsive, then you only have until April 21st 2015 to make them…

Discover the future of web design

If you’re running low on inspiration and are looking for some help to raise your game, you should attend one of the…

How to use HTML & CSS style tiles to kickstart your design

It’s been a while since Style Tiles were brought into this world by the genius of one Samantha Warren. For those of you…

What’s new for designers, April 2015

In this month's edition of what’s new for designers and developers, we’ve included lots of new apps for design teams,…

Comics of the week #282

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

Is Neue Haas Unica the perfect grotesk for the Web?

This week, the Web went giddy at the knees over the release of Monotype’s Neue Haas Unica. The typeface is a redesign…

How to be a unicorn (and why you should)

Once upon a time, there was a mystical creature known as the Unicorn. This beautiful developer/designer/interface…

How to perfect your UX with persona scenarios

User scenarios are the stories that your personasp0o act out. Basically, user scenarios are thought exercises (though…

6 types of digital affordance that impact your UX

Affordance is a term originally coined by a psychologist, J.J. Gibson, in the 1970s. He defined it as the relationship…

The ultimate guide to getting started in web design

Do you want to learn how to design your very first website? Perhaps you’ve designed a few and now you’d like to turn…

Comics of the week #281

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

25+ Kickstarter projects you’ll actually want to back

We all have great ideas, but some people are a little better at making them real than others. And kudos to them, the…

Should designers learn to code?

In 2010, Elliot Stocks stirred up a hornets’ nest with a provocative tweet: Honestly, I’m shocked that in 2010 I’m…

Discovery of 2nd web has wide-ranging consequences for net neutrality

In the last year there’s been an increasingly passionate debate over the possibility of a two-tier internet. However,…

Could Adobe kill your desktop?

Designers who use Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator regularly, know that they can’t get out of using it on their desktops.…

Could you really be a UX designer?

So you think you are a user experience designer? Are you sure? You might have it in your job title, but are you…

Comics of the week #280

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

Facebooks’ React Native radically simplifies app development

Facebook fans and app-development enthusiasts can at last rejoice: the company’s much-hyped, and recently announced,…

4 simple ways to design killer call to action buttons

Call to action buttons that are easy to see and understand will make a huge difference to your client’s conversion…