Articles by Web Designer Depot from April 2017

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 ...

WordPress has become the worlds most popular CMS. Because it is so popular, this is even more of a reason to enhance WordPress security if you are using it for your website. Most people understand how...

The Huffington Post, now officially referred to as Huffpost has a completely new site design to go with its name and logo change. It has added a fair splash of black to go along with the white and gre...

Every designer needs a kickass toolbox to fall back on. Whether youre an accomplished designer whos looking to save time, or a newbie still honing their skills, a great big pile of design assets will ...

The best products do two things well: features and details. Features are what draw people to your product; details are what keep them there says Dan Saffer. The importance of details cant be over-emph...

The design review can be one of the most stressful milestones in any website project. While feedback is a valuable part of the overall process, sometimes the process of getting there is complicated an...

Every month, we scour the Internet far and wide to bring web designers the latest and most relevant news stories about browsers. Heres another edition of Browser Watch, running down everything from th...

Once upon a time, the most Siri had to deal with was a few offensive remarks or sexually explicit requests. We probably all did it at least once. But in just a few short years, voice search has explod...

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 ...

When it comes to web design, and especially UI design, icons play a crucial role. When used properly, icons can enhance almost any website design by adding visual interest and appeal. However, creatin...

Ok, so youve built an awesome digital productit might be a customer-facing app, an enterprise software, a web app or whatever. Youve launched and, oh happy day, people are downloading your application...

If youve ever at least casually used Google Earth in the last few years, then you know how the service allowed you to get an in-depth perspective on many places on the planet. If youve been a fan of G...

I have been looking at a ton of portfolio sites. The good news is, I get paid to do this. I look at a bunch of portfolios, pick the ones I like best, and then I magically turn those portfolios into a ...

Art direction plays a role in all facets of life. Its especially important in advertising and magazines. The visuals in ads and magazines often are presented in a way that evokes an emotional reaction...

From new tools to code snippets to typefaces that will make your design life better, this months design newbies are a lot of fun to play around with. My favorites include a task management app thats f...

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...

Its not all the time that a major brand of vodka redesigns its website to be extra artsy, but thats precisely what Stoli Vodka has recently done. The famous Russian vodkas site underwent a radical red...

If you don’t write a lot of CSS yourself, you might think of CSS Grid as that thing Rachel Andrew keeps tweeting about. Well, it’s a whole new system for layout, and Zurb is apparently fol...

Its not all the time that a major brand of vodka redesigns its website to be extra artsy, but thats precisely what Stoli Vodka has recently done. The famous Russian vodkas site underwent a radical red...

In an era where using the cloud has become something of the norm, its worthwhile to look at how this technology and way of working can be implemented into your design workflow to help improve the way ...

Whenever youre working with teams as a web designer, chances are that youre using Google Drive, Evernote, or Dropbox for any collaborations like file and image sharing. Sharing services like these mak...

Building email templates is down right hard. Building responsive emails is even harder. Luckily, the kind folks over at Zurb have developed a fantastic framework that makes the process of building res...

Delight is a word that were hearing and using more often to describe pleasurable moments in our products. Delight is the magic that makes us fall in love with a product. Its a core element to strive f...

Hey readers. Id go for some sort of April fools joke, but Im having a hard time competing with reality these days. I did, however, manage to coin a new term for a design trend that Ive been seeing a l...

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 ...

In keeping with Googles tendency to always debut new initiatives for developers, the latest in the companys plan is its new mobile certification for web developers. Recently launched, this program is ...

Augmented Reality is everywhere. Everyday, we read about it in the news. And even though Virtual Reality initially seemed to be a big dealto have the biggest wow factorit is now starting to appear tha...

Launched just five years ago, Quartz is a digital publisher of news that aims to present readers with a truly world view. Focused on the business world, qz.com is targeted primarily at mobile devices;...

At the end of 2016, I put out the 2016 Front-End Tooling Survey. The response has been phenomenal. Thank you to all of you who have taken the time to do so. The aim was pretty straight-forward; to fin...

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statisticsoften mis-attributed to Mark Twain, the anonymous quote sums up the truth about stats; they can be misunderstood. Its not uncommon for a...

Its all about geometry. The trend is design right now centers around interesting shapes and layers that combine to create stunning visuals. While there have been periods where squares or circles were ...

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...

The artificial intelligence (AI) industry is undergoing unprecedented growth. AI development is finding its way into all areas of business and, increasingly, into creative endeavors. Despite the obvio...

On the back of Googles successful open-source projects such as Kubernetes and TensorFlow, its no surprise to hear that the Mountain View, California-based company is taking another step into open sour...