Articles by Web Designer Depot from June 2017

Before you start working on creating your clients banners, youll need to understand who they are targeting and what they wish to achieve with their banners. Objectives can include the following: gener...

Foundation 6.4 has been released by the team over at Zurb, and while its packed with tweaks and improvements that youd expect from any release, the big news is that the Flexbox-based grid is now the d...

Cat pictures and GIFs make the web go round. That much is obvious to anyone who has used the web at all in the last couple of decades. But cats arent just great content. Theyre great companions for th...

Every CSS developer should know about Sass to see what it offers. This superset of CSS has revolutionized stylesheets much like jQuery revolutionized JavaScript. And alongside many CSS UI frameworks w...

There are definite right and wrong ways to design navigation menus. This basic part of a website is often overlooked in the design process and it shows in terms of usability. Clunky, overcrowded or mi...

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 ...

One of the most oft-repeated criticisms of any design is that its poor user experience. UX is set up as the ultimate achievement for any design project. But is this an over-simplification of the desig...

The web runs on open source software. Most of it is in the back end, with most of the worlds servers running on some form of Unix or Linux. Those servers run hundreds, if not thousands, of open source...

Online sales climb higher year after year and now is the best time to get into the ecommerce game. If youre looking for a platform to start with then WooCommerce is easy to setup, very secure, and it ...

Color is one of the most powerful tools in the designers toolkit. It can draw attention, set a mood, influence users emotions, perceptions and actions. With the lingering presence of Flat and Material...

Theres a mix of function and fun in new design and development tools this month. From adding emojis to links, to fonts that wow, to CSS tricks, theres a little something for everyone in this collectio...

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 ...

Twitter is launching a redesign of its iOS, Android, TweetDeck and Twitter Lite apps. The redesign is intended to make the service feel lighter, faster, and easier to use and features a number of chan...

Most of us are familiar with the saying, Show, dont tell. For those of usworking in creative industries, this should be your mantra when building up your rsum. With the rise of the gig-economy and fre...

As a web designer, you already know that great design is essential for a websiteits the concept of design you trust, unless a website looks absolutely amazing, its going to be hard for new visitors to...

You may have heard that conversational interfaces are the new hot trend in digital product design. Industry leaders such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook are strongly focussed on build...

The majority of web navigation menus flow horizontally across the page. This comes from a history of traditional monitors being wider rather than taller. But with so much screen space its now possible...

Welcome readers, its June, and the Brutalism bug is back. No, really. After disappearing into the phenomenon I called post-minimalism, plain old Brutalism seems to be making a comeback. Oh, its had 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 ...

This set of 100 nature icons designed by vecteezy.com is the perfect antidote to the austere, minimalist line icons used everywhere. Drawn in a friendly, clean, emoji-style, theyre perfect for social ...

Being a designer is tough: you can spend months crafting the perfect experience, ensuring your usability is inclusive, writing careful copy, testing on every browser known to maneven the copy of IE on...

Affinity Photo for iPad was announced this week at Apples WWDC. The desktop version is one of the most elegant pieces of design software on the market, and that excellence appears to have been success...

Every time someone talks about Brutalism, I have to ask, “Wait, thats still a thing?” Brutalism is for people who think flat design isa bit too skeuomorphic, and as a community we seem to ...

When youre designing for users, and youre always designing for users, you need to understand them. The problem with user-centered design is that with over seven billion of us, sometimes its difficult ...

Sometimes a simple design tweak can move your website design from ordinary to trendy. Each of this months trends is that type of technique, from tiny typography to geometric features to blurred imager...

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 ...

One of the most frustrating scenarios for a UX designer is when a clients team takes time to think things over and comes back with a batch of design changes without any explanation. Everything may see...

NBC News is getting a new design! Read all about it! There are so many young people who may never get that joke, unless they like watching period movies. Well, much like humor itself, NBC News is movi...

As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. Human beings are highly visual creatures able to process visual information almost instantly90 percent of all information that we perceive and ...

Ive been designing for the web for a while. Since the days of table-based sites when we spliced our images and added them into <tr>s and <td>s. The days of hit counters, Flash splash p...