Articles by Web Designer Depot from May 2015

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 ...

Were constantly amazed at the generosity of designers and developers who release exciting, inspiring products out to the web design community on a daily basis.Not only do these impressive designers sp...

Ive noticed something: the best designers are often the worst salesmen. But if you work hard to refine your craft, to become the best designer you can, to send ripples through the world from the exper...

Last month Hotjar exited its beta-phase and finally became available for anyone to check out. Hotjar is an advanced analytics suite that enables designers to examine user behavior and amend our design...

As a designer, you might go through school or online training with the expectation of working face to face with your clients. While this is usually the case, especially if you work in-house, you shoul...

Animation is one of humanitys life-long dreams (if some historians are to be believed). The theory begins with cave paintings: In some cave paintings, its common to see creatures drawn with far too ma...

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 ...

Almost every web design story has three main actors. Each of them occupies a particular place in the story, and each has different motivations and expectations.These characters are the client, the des...

A lot of designers have wild misconceptions about freelancing and what its actually like. Despite what many people think, its not all fun and games and working in your PJs. At some point in their care...

Usability testing, with real users, is one of the key areas that too many web designers skip. Often, there is little money in the budget for tests, but remote usability testing can be relatively cheap...

As web designers, we are always trying to create websites that leavea lasting impression. Yet in todays world, websites have evolved from digital brochures into fully-fledged content marketing platfor...

Combining typefaces is one of the most challenging skills for a designer to master. Setting two fonts together in the same design brings out unexpected flavors in them both. Whats more, theres rarely ...

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 ...

Every freelancer has heard the pitch from clients about no money now, but there will be later, help start my business and you’ll be my go-to person in the future, or “when things get going...

We all love icons, they communicate more than words, in much less space. And theyre even better when theyre free. However, most icons are still limited by a one size fits all mentality: the same icon ...

Websites these days aretakinghero images to the next level, embracing mega-images that fill whole screens. Sites ranging from ecommerce stores, to political sites, to Google Analytics itself are all u...

In this months edition of whats new for designers and developers, weve included lots of podcasts, design resource directories, lots of web apps, learning resources, productivity resources, new framewo...

In this months edition of whats new for designers and developers, weve included lots of podcasts, design resource directories, lots of web apps, learning resources, productivity resources, new framewo...

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 ...

2015 has inherited a lot of trends from previous years, theres been a steady evolution of ideas Flat Design into Material Design for example but nothing as revolutionary as Responsive Design. Howeve...

Love it or loathe it, its impossible to dispute the impact Adobe Photoshop has had on the design world. Over the last 25 years it has edited billions of images, and along the way has made itself the b...

Whether youre building a new website, a new app, or a dashboard, you cant do without great icons. The Web is in love with icons, theyre used everywhere from apps to responsive sites, all because they ...

Many of us dream of being our own boss,being able to set our own hours and choose what kind of work we take on. But achieving this aim takes years, and even the first step can feel intimidating. Givin...

While web design has become a hot commodity in todays competitive market, many clientsstill dont have a clear understanding of what exactly they are trying to accomplish with their website. The most f...

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 ...

This week Microsoft introduced its new browser, Edge, the project that had formerly been known as Project Spartan. Much has been made of its Hub feature, and the ability to add personal annotations to...

Few things in this world strike terror into the hearts of men (and women) quite like performing in front of a live audience. Thankfully, our computers and websites have no such qualms, and now they ha...