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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
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
Quiz: Who Designed That Font?
We’re rounding up the week with a fun quiz for anyone who loves fonts. You’ve seen these typefaces used in hundreds of…
By Louise North
Poll: Is Basecamp Right To Shutdown Politics At Work?
This week, in a move like something from a particularly eventful episode of The Office, popular project management app…
By Ben Moss
Quiz: Which CSS Snippet Is The Fastest?
CSS is an awesome tool for styling websites. It’s small, fast, and easy to learn. But like all code, there’s a right…
By Simon Sterne
Poll: Is Environmentally Conscious Web Design Really Worth It?
We’re no longer arguing about whether climate change exists because climate change is now extensively documented.…
By Ben Moss
Poll: Should You Fire Good Clients?
We all get excited about new projects; we're daydreaming about possibilities from the first contact with a potential…
By Ben Moss
Key and Surface Tracking Comes to Chrome
This week Google announced further details of its plan to remove cookies from ad tracking. The strategy, which the ad…
By Ben Moss
Quiz: How Much Do You Know About SEO?
For many, SEO is more of an art than a science, a mysterious process in which a tiny tweak to a site’s code can propel…
By Louise North
Quiz: Can You Spot The Center Of These Shapes?
It’s Friday, and we wanted to have a little fun with a design test that might make you go cross-eyed.
Here are ten…
By Louise North
Comics for Designers #440
Every month we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.
The content revolves around web design, blogging…
By Ben Moss
Quiz: How Many Web Design Acronyms Do You Know?
Web design is chock-full of acronyms like WWW (World Wide Web), and HTML (HyperText Markup Language). But how many of…
By Simon Sterne
Poll: Is It Time to Merge Browser Engines Into a Browser Protocol?
We tend not to think about it, but the Internet has a physical dimension. It’s a complex network of wires, cables,…
By Ben Moss
Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Anatomy of a Typeface?
The constituent parts of a typeface design have some bizarre names. Any ideas what a beak might be? How about a crotch?…
By Simon Sterne
Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your Design History?
Design is on a loop; it goes round and round, repeating the same ideas, and revisiting the same problems. If you want…
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
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
