Articles by Web Designer Depot from January 2021

How good is your knowledge of the history of design? Do you know which famous designer disliked computers? Or which designer compared their job to that of a host at a dinner party? Kick back, relax, a...

Typography is one of the most important elements of any site, having a measurably large impact on brand and experience. So fundamental is it that making wholesale changes to your typography opting fo...

If youre here, then youre thinking about becoming a web designer and wondering if its a smart move. Honestly, its not uncommon to be plagued by doubts and what-ifs when making a big career change, and...

20 years ago, Wikipedia was started with the ambitious aim of creating a free encyclopedia for the whole world. Looking back 20 years, the world was a very different place: the Dot Com Bust had just p...

Here we are into a brand new year, and although were far from out of the woods yet, there is a feeling of renewed hope on many fronts. In this first collection of the year, we have a mix of retrospect...

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 never been easier to set up an ecommerce store and start selling. There are a dizzying array of ecommerce solutions available in 2021, and most are feature-rich and competitively priced. Ecommerce...

If you already have a good idea of what you want a new website to look like, the next step would be to decide on the tools youll need to put into play to turn that vision into a reality. Tools enable ...

The Beazley Design of the Year for 2020 has just been awarded to US architecture firm Rael San Fratello &Colectivo Chopeke for their Teeter-Totter Wall project, a series of luminous pink seesaws b...

The new year is often packed with resolutions. Make the most of those goals and resolve to design better, faster, and more efficiently with some of these new tools and resources. Heres what new for de...

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...

When creating a website, its vital to remember that not only does it need to work and look great on the device you are creating it on, but on all the other devices, it might be used on too. Mobile and...

Ecommerce design may seem fairly straight-forward; you build an online store that showcases a companys products or services and gives customers a quick and pain-free way to purchase them. While that f...

Burger King, the globally recognized food chain with 19,000 restaurants worldwide, has unveiled a redesigned set of brand assets. Since the late 1960s, the company has used a logotype sandwiched betwe...

Burger King, the globally recognized food chain with 19,000 restaurants worldwide, has unveiled a redesigned set of brand assets. Since the late 1960s, the company has used a logotype sandwiched betwe...

The start of the year is always a good time to reassess priorities and consider new approaches, but 2021 is more of a reset than we expected this time last year. 2020 is unlikely to go down in anyones...

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...

If you were paying close attention to your IT department around the 8th of December, you might have heard some quiet sobbing and the occasional wail of, Why? Why?! WHY?! Now, it was the year 2020, so ...

There are dozens of factors that influence the UX of your site, app, or game. Most of them are beyond your control; user connection speed, end-system resources, even browser technology is all out of y...

Dont drop the ball on these website design trends for the new year. All of the trends featured here this month are visual in nature not as many user interface elements as previous months, but all jus...

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...

Over the years, experts have repeatedly discussed the possible impact of mixed realities on web design. Concepts like AR and VR are expected to have the potential to change the way that we interact wi...