Articles by Web Designer Depot from September 2015

The Huffington Post used yesterdays Advertising Week event in New York to announce the first major redesign in its ten year history. The new design was produced in collaboration with design company Co...

Web forms arethe scourge of many a designer, and by extension, theirclients. Forms play a vital role on any site because theyre how sites gather all-important info during the checkout process, or lead...

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 ...

According to recent research published on Internet Retailer, mobile commerce now accounts for 30% of all U.S. e-commerce; and mobile commerce is expected to grow 2.58 times faster than total e-commerc...

The short answer is yes, but it is not as straight forward as that; not all web designers need to be UX designers or UI designers, but they should all have some sort of basic UX understanding since th...

To celebrate their 20th birthday, Opera are launching a new brand identity, the most visually striking element of which, is their new logo. Gone is the familiar high-contrast O, to be replaced with a ...

Let me say this first: flexbox is easy. Whether its because of early-adoption issues, or because weve learned to think in terms of floats and blocks, I often hear from web designers that they think Fl...

If theres a common question that web designers ask themselves, its usually: How can I improve user experience?User experience is always front and centeror at least it should bein design; without users...

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 ...

You cant have too many icons, especially when theyre as lovingly crafted as these 40 fantastic Illustricons,and theyre free to download for WebdesignerDepot readers courtesy of Sliceberry. The colorfu...

Atomic is a new breed of design app, that bridges the gaps left by traditional artwork applications like Sketch, or Photoshop. It launched yesterday, after four months of public beta testing, during w...

Successful startups are known for their disruptive approach, so its interesting to see how so many innovative companies are surprisingly conservative (and sometimes sloppy) when it comes to their pitc...

Launched in May this year, GoDaddys Pro Program is a service for web designers and developers, enabling them to easily manage client projects within GoDaddys ecosystem. Built from the ground up for sm...

In this months edition of whats new for designers and developers, weve included lots of color resources, startup resources, educational tools, email tools, JavaScript resources, icons, inspiration sou...

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 ...

I spend a lot of time sitting, because I live on the Internet. I design websites for it, I write articles for it, and I spend most of my free time on it or on video games. If youre like me, then your ...

Yesterdays Apple keynote introduced changes to a range of Apple devices, but only one new product was announced: the Apple Pencil, a stylus designed for use with the iPad Pro. Much has been made of th...

You probably know by now that mobile has taken off, and theres no stopping it anytime soon. What you probably didnt know is just how popular mobile really is. In fact, did you know that the number of ...

Every site has a goal, whether its making more money, building a client list, or getting a customer to pick up a phone and call.To achieve those goals you need your users to emotionally engage with yo...

A/B testing is frequently billed as a scientific way to validate design decisions. Occasionally referred to as split testing, A/B testing is a simple process that on the surface appears to promise con...

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 week, the Webs been falling in love with Font Flame. Billed as the Tinder for typefaces, its an addictive little sitethat asks you to judge font pairings. You can love or hate the combinations th...

There are always new webdesign trends gaining momentum. Who could forget parallax scrolling from a few years ago, which is still popular today? As of late, long-scrolling pages are getting more attent...

Divi 2.5 is the latest release from Elegant Themes. The Divi theme is designed to create beautiful WordPress websites with no need to understand code at all. Regular updates from the Elegant Themes te...

Today, Google released an update to its logowhich it describes as: simple, uncluttered, colorful, friendly. The discerniblyscrappy dotcom-era style has been replaced by a simpler, geometric sans-serif...

Here we go againwith another fresh set of awesome freebies for your delectation. This month you’ll find unique icons, high-resolution mockups and templates, neatly crafted HTML themes and UI kit...

Youve probably heard of Ghost, the new-ish blogging platform thats taken the blogging world by storm; its simple, its sleek, its sexy; its got that live-preview thing. Whats not to like? Im moving to ...