Articles by Web Designer Depot from April 2014

Let us take a look at and discuss the often aesthetic bane of the blog design, sidebars. Sidebars have been with us for years, and it is sometimes hard to think of a blog design out there on the web w...

For designers passionate about the latest developments across the full spectrum of visual design, there’s a brand new site that features some of the most exciting, innovative and inspiring desig...

Being a user centered designer means a significant portion of my responsibility involves prototyping concepts to gain feedback for various designs that solve actual business problems. That means itera...

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow...

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great ...

Some icons are so commonplace that we’ve come to not think twice about themuntil they’re changed.One such image undergoing a makeover is the International Symbol of Access, commonly known ...

It is a fact almost universally acknowledged, that 99% of fonts are unusable for 99% of projects. So when you find one of those magic 1% that fit almost everywhere, you grab it with both hands! That&#...

Beautiful visual design isn’t enough any more, modern design needs great interaction to really stand out. Animations in your designs can provide clarity, direct attention, and create a delightfu...

Your website looks slick, your products and services are amazing, and you’ve launched multiple marketing campaigns. So why isn’t your site producing the numbers you need? Getting buzz for ...

Infinite scrolling has became a common design pattern in recent years. With many high profile social networks adopting the solution, its come to be one of the most widely adopted patterns out there. T...

Its that time again! Open up your local WordPress install (the one that you use for testing plugins)everyone has one of those, right? Its not just me?and get ready for another months worth of WordPres...

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow...

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great ...

Typographic art is all the rage, with everyone from politicians to pop-stars finding their speeches, lyrics and quotes transformed into portraits of themselves. The trouble is, the old saying that a p...

User testing doesn’t have to be difficult at all. I’m going to talk about three lean research methods that are neither extensive nor expensive to carry out but will in turn provide you wit...

We all know intuitively what makes a website look bad: overused bevel effects, corny clip art, overcrowded layouts. These annoyances are easily corrected by developing with design fundamentals in mind...

In this tutorial we’ll look at the techniques needed to make a navigation menu that is hidden off screen until the user clicks on a menu icon, at which point the content slides over and darkens,...

Bookstores are closing, newspapers are folding and magazines are rushing to publish online. The stock of print media seems to be falling, but two Japanese designers are challenging that process with a...

The latest, highly anticipated version of Sketch by Bohemian Coding, has just been released.It’s an application that has promised much in the past, with many designers embracing it wholeheartedl...

Designmodo have just released their latest product, Startup Framework,designed to build sites for new startups and 9 months in the making, it’s built on a modular component basis, enabling you t...

The April edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, Photoshop extensions, game frameworks, educational resources, mobile frameworks, jQuery plugins, and some ...

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow...

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great ...

Working in Photoshop is no longer an option. The bloated behemoth just doesn’t provide a suitable interface for designing websites, especially not responsive websites. Designing in the browser i...

Everyone loves saving money, especially the US government. But could it really be as simple as switching fonts? Last week the media was awash with the story of 14-year-old student Suvir Mirchandani, w...

Information Architecture (IA) is not just abuzz word. Information Architecture is the art of structuring information to offer better usability in a digital landscape. It is often used in companies dev...

Craig Rozynski may have taken on the mother of all type design challenges with his creation Comic Neue; a revival of the worlds most hated typeface. His first type design project, Rozynskis Comic Neue...

Its been a busy month for theme designers & developers as a large number of new themes were released, making this a great time to update your site if it is in need of a new look. Some of the overa...

“Less is more” is one of the most important minimalistic design principles every designer learns: you read about it a lot, you know it’s really important, but still you might get it ...

Good design has strong ties to emotion: this is something designers do know and understand. Unfortunately, in a world driven by SEO and the never-ending evolution of web tech, its a very easy thing to...

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow...

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great ...

It seems like the whole world’s got an idea for an app, the really tricky part is converting that idea into a real app that makes sales on the App Store. If you’re looking to produce an ap...

I’ve always had this crazy infatuation with packaging design. There’s just something about getting a physical product and checking out what it’s presented in and how its presented. I...

We have capabilities in our browsers that we wouldnt have dreamt of 5 or 10 years ago. Entire 3D game worlds can run in the browser and interactive websites can be more immersive experiences. With a c...

With the recent developments in online privacy it is just about the right time to suggest small tweaks to improve your terms & conditions and privacy policy documents on your own websites. As the ...

At the end of last week ICANN, the body responsible for the allocation of domain names online, announced it will be adopting changes to domain name structure first proposed at the Paris conference in ...

It was seen as the future of the Web and mobile devices. Google Glass was the thing we all saw in movies about the near future. It was a TV, phone, computer and all in a very personal device. It opene...

Welcome back, WDD readers! Its time for this months round of WordPress plugin goodness. As usual, weve got quite a variety of plugins, with a variety of potential use cases. Take note, though: some of...