Articles by Web Designer Depot from July 2015

Windows 10 is now available and its the final ever version of Windows. From this point on, Microsoft will cease major version releases and adopt the frequent update model with new releases as often a...

We all need stock photos from time to time. Even when a clients budget stretches to original photography, sometimes its impossible to capture that perfect shot; luckily the chances are someone has alr...

Designers commonly offer numerous services and products, from straight design consultation, to side-projects, and apps. But are you one organization or many? How similar should your offerings look? Wh...

Speed is usability. To say it more accurately, website speed is a major part of usability. The most intuitive interface ever created by the mind of man will do you no good if the user is peed off by t...

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep tr...

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 ...

We love icons, nothing communicates a simple idea with less pixels, and as the mobile web grows and grows well need them more and more. Helping you fill your collection is this awesome set of free ico...

Understanding the true value of the work we do is one of the first lessons many of us learn. Turning away spec work, focusing on growing the skills that are important to us, and using those skills eff...

Few things are more stressful than a design critique. From that pressure, though, comes new viewpoints, action items, and an overall tighter product. Ibelieve a successful design incorporates lots of ...

Macawis one of a new breed of web design tools. Its one of the first design applicationscapable of generating clean code, and is endorsed by numerous industry figures. Now, building on the success of ...

Landing pages are pages that are designed specifically to accomplish conversion goals. Occasionally, a home page functions as a landing page (though some would argue that a home page can never truly b...

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep tr...

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 ...

Parallax scrolling is defined as a site on which the background image scrolls faster than the foreground, creating the impression of depth. That rigid definition is at the root of most of the myths ab...

Last week, Serif launchedits bitmapeditor Affinity Photo, and the response from the design community has been resoundingly positive. The streamlined workflow, fine-tuned toolset, and hyper-responsive ...

Last week, Serif launchedits bitmapeditor Affinity Photo, and the response from the design community has been resoundingly positive. The streamlined workflow, fine-tuned toolset, and hyper-responsive ...

With mobile internet usage eclipsing desktop-based web browsing, its more important than ever for websites to be built with an emphasis on speedy page loads and fluid reactions to user input. One impo...

Ok, here is the scenario: youve developed a brand-new product or created an extremely useful service thats ready to be shared with the world. But there is just one snag: you have little or no knowledg...

In this months edition of whats new for designers and developers, weve included lots of design apps, startup resources, photo editing apps, email tools, image resources, icons, PR tools, frameworks, a...

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep tr...

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 ...

Once upon a time, Tim Berners-Lee and a few other very smart people made the Web. They looked upon what they had made, and saw that it was okay; but they would fix it up later. They never got around t...

Today, Serif launches Affinity Photo, the highly anticipated companion app to 2014s Affinity Designer. Whilst Affinity Designer was aimed at vector artwork, Affinity Photo is a professional bitmap edi...

Long-scrolling pages are at the heart of the above the fold vs. there is no fold debate.For a while, designers and marketers thought that your most important content (calls to action, contact info, et...

Yesterday Google announced the release of Material Design Lite. Not, as the name might imply, a streamlined version of Material Design; rather, a framework for easily implementing Material Design on w...

Knowing that we all judge a book by its cover, smart designers create catchy and practical interfaces. Potential users may be hooked, but how do you reel them all the way in? In trying to answer thisq...

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep tr...

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 ...

Id like to find that guy who was the first to promote to customers the idea that they could manage their own website as easily as using a word processor and give him a good kick in the ass. I think he...

Usability testing doesnt have to be complicated. There are dozens of options for a design team that wants to remotely test their solutions. To prove that, weve redesigned Yelp, with the help of remote...

Yesterday, Christophe Tauziet, a product designer at Facebook, leaked a shot of what he claims is the new Facebook logo. Reportedly designed by Facebooks in-house team in collaboration with Eric Olson...

Youve been busting your ass for years as a freelance designer, taking projects as they come, performing every role required for a successful business: producer, CEO, HR, accounting, marketing, and sal...