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Andy Budd - How Designers Should Ask For (And Receive) High-Quality Feedback

It’s fairly common to see designers complain about the poor quality feedback they’ve received from stakeholders or clients. “They literally told me to make the logo bigger!” they might joke, or, “Th

Evergreen , Design

Dan Redding - How to Create a Promotional Snail Mail Campaign

It’s important to promote your design business. This is especially true when economic times are challenging, you’ve got news to announce, or you’re simply hungry for growth. Many forms of promotion

Marketing , Advertising , Business Cards , Design , Business

Lee Munroe - Showcase of Web Design In Ireland

This post is the second article of our new series “Global Web Design”. Over the next months we’ll be covering various continents, featuring web developers and web designs from different countries of

Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design

Steven Snell - The Ultimate Collection Of [Free] Vector Packs

Designers love freebies that make life easier and help them create higher-quality work. Free vectors are useful, free vector packs even more so. Fortunately, there are plenty of talented graphic des

Vectors , Graphics , Downloads , Freebies

Preethi Sam - Best Of Pro Scheduler Libraries

This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at Bryntum, who are strong believers in the web as an application platform and provide advanced UI components and dev tools for over 500

workflow , Productivity , Tools

Matt Cronin - Showcase Of Well-Designed Tabbed Navigation

There are an extensive amount of roads you can take in web design, specifically in navigation. Here, we will talk about one specific navigation technique, tab-based navigation. If properly carried o

Showcases , Navigation , Tabs , Inspiration , Web Design

Tom Giannattasio - The Ails Of Typographic Anti-Aliasing

Enter anti-aliasing: the next best thing to a world of higher-resolution monitors. The concept of anti-aliasing is fairly simple: add semi-transparent pixels along the edges of letterforms to smooth

Photoshop , Graphics , Typography , fonts , Design

Daniel Yuschick - Keys To An Accessibility Mindset

How many times have you heard this when asking about web accessibility? “It’s something we’d like to do more of, but we don’t have the time or know-how.” From a broad perspective, web accessibility

Accessibility , User Experience , Design

Mikołaj Dobrucki - Penpot’s Flex Layout: Building CSS Layouts In A Design Tool

This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at Penpot whose mission is to provide an open-source and open-standards platform to bring collaboration between designers and developers

Tools , Css , Design

Sergey Chikuyonok - How To Optimize Images With HTML5 Canvas

Images have always been the heaviest component of websites. Even if high-speed Internet access gets cheaper and more widely available, websites will get heavier more quickly. If you really care abou

optimization , coding , Responsive Images , html5

Victor Yocco - Connecting With Users: Applying Principles Of Communication To UX Research

Communication is in everything we do. We communicate with users through our research, our design, and, ultimately, the products and services we offer. UX practitioners and those working on digital p

User Research , ux , Communication

Sean Hodge - 5 Principles And Ideas Of Setting Type On The Web

There are many ways to approach Web typography in order to create effective and expressive results. Let’s take a closer look at some principles, rules and ideas for approaching Web typography decisi

Principles , Typography , Web Design , Design

Dan Mayer - Design Legacy: A Social History Of Jamaican Album Covers

Mention Jamaican music to someone who isn’t a fan and you can bet that a fairly predictable image pops into the head of your listener. Chances are this image looks something like the cover of Bim Sh

Graphic Design , Covers , Inspiration , Design

Paras Chopra - In Defense Of A/B Testing

Recently, A/B testing has come under (unjust) criticism from different circles on the Internet. Even though this criticism contains some relevant points, the basic argument against A/B testing is fl

testing , Design

Julia May - What If Oscars Were Given To Movie Websites?

Most modern movie websites are built in Flash, even when it’s totally unjustified. The websites often lack usability standards and require users to click through splash pages and introductions in or

Movies , Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design

Frederick O’Brien - Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial

A lot of web design talk concerns itself with what goes on around content. Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. This gives us

Inspiration , User Experience , Content Strategy , Design

Jad Limcaco - 50 Creative Star Logos For Inspiration

The other day, while browsing some logo galleries, I noticed the trend of using stars in logos. I saw all kinds of different companies and organizations who used a star in their logo. It used to be

Inspiration , Logo Design

Kat Neville - What Makes A Great Cover Letter, According To Companies?

Ah, the dreaded cover letter. Boring to write, difficult to get right, and you’re usually preoccupied by other things (such as the portfolio and resume, which are also really important). Unfortunate

Graphic Design , Clients , Interviews , Career , Design , Business

Louis Lazaris - Website Maintenance Tips for Front-End Developers

One of the biggest advantages of online media over print is the ability to change, update, and enhance online media at virtually anytime, with virtually no negative side effects. In fact, if a websi

Bugs , Maintenance , Security , Documentation , Web Design , Design , Business

Luis Ouriach - Building Components For Consumption, Not Complexity (Part 1)

Design systems are on the tip of every designer’s tongue, but the narrative in the industry mainly focuses on why you need a design system and its importance rather than the reality of endless maint

Design System , Figma , Design

Sven Lennartz - A Short Story About “Back To Top” Links

Often it is the close attention to small details that makes a design outstanding. During the development of a website, designers tend to quickly forget about small details and focus on major design

Navigation , ux , Usability , Web Design