Articles by Web Designer Depot from November 2015

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 ...

A consistent trait among digital products that have withstood the test of time is adaptation. Adapting to new technologies. Adapting to new devices. And adapting to users (essentially user experience ...

With holiday season upon us, and Christmas Day just four weeks away, nows the time to get your cards, decorations, and promotions finalized. To help you deliver designs that Santas elves would be prou...

When you are just starting out in a web development business, it can be really tempting to try to handle most (if not all) of the work entirely by yourself. It’s not hard to understand the logic...

You might have noticed in the last few days, that social share buttons on Webdesigner Depot, and across the Web, look a little different. Twitter has finally implemented its planned changes to both up...

We all want to give our users an optimal user experience;it has been one of the more recent pillars of web design. Most people equate good user experience with such stuff as great design or a fast-loa...

By now, users are more than familiar with infinite scrolling the design technique that relentlessly keeps refreshing a page when you scroll down it. Ostensibly designed to replace pagination, infinit...

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 ...

Googles Material Design continues to be a popular approach to contemporary web design. An almost-flat style, the set of principlesoriginally designed as brand guidelines for Googledescribe a layer-bas...

Every new field of knowledge and endeavor develops its own jargon and acronyms. Web design is no different; we have terms like tags, keywords, analytics, user testing, mobile first, responsive design,...

The Elegant Vector Kit is a set of beautifully rendered workspace elements, designed by Nasti Funny.Great for creating hero images, and desktop illustrations, many of the elements are also useful for ...

Two words of microcopy can double a sites sales or lead conversion numbers. Microcopy is more than just verbs on buttons. Its the words that show someone how to sign up for your newsletter. Or the ins...

The ugly duckling of the social media world, Google+, has just undergone a significant redesign. Far more than a simple facelift, the social network has been entirely refocused on interests, and in th...

Foundation 6 is almost ready to exit beta, and its better than its predecessors in nearly every conceivable way: it’s more streamlined, it’s simpler, and yet somehow more sophisticated. Zu...

Users want individual experiences when they interact with devices. From geolocation tools to voice activation systems that respond to a voice or call someone by name, users want tools that seem to kno...

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 ...

To mark its 101st birthday this month, and following on from a redesign of its print version this Summer, Americas oldest liberal political magazine, The New Republic has launched a redesigned website...

Created by LA-based designer, Vladimir Kudinov, Hue is a collection of 49 backdrops and gradients that lend atmosphere to layouts and product shots. The collection is photo-realistic, blending seamles...

A lot has been said recently about the merits of static sites. But in many situations a dynamic approachis a necessity. Whether a content management system, a customer relationship tool, or online sto...

BPGstands for Better Portable Graphics, and its a new image format, the aim of which is to replace JPG. To do this, BPG delivers the best of both worlds: superior quality, and smaller file size. But w...

Im stood in the center of a room, confident my choice to go all static had been a good one. Its a serene scenenothing can touch me. There are website owners running around wildly, chasing WordPress se...

Im stood in the center of a room, confident my choice to go all static had been a good one. Its a serene scenenothing can touch me. There are website owners running around wildly, chasing WordPress se...

In this months edition of whats new for designers and developers, weve included lots of productivity apps, design plugins for Photoshop and Sketch, best practices guides, educational resources, testin...

With web users increasingly time-strapped and suffering from information overload, theres definitely a sense of relief when encountering a site where less is more, with fewer pages, fewer choices, and...

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 ...

Somehow, weve come to accept the notion that digital technology is the answer to all of lifes problems. That conclusion has resultedin more and more app ideas, which are uploaded to the web, and to st...

When Viktor Hanek started designing for the Web, he struggled to find good stock images, so he started using his own photos. They were so popular that he started his own site. Two years later Viktors ...

The contact page of a website can make or break conversions.If yourvisitor has had a good experience up until the point of visiting the contact page (would they still be on your site if they hadnt?) a...

The big news at this years Adobe MAX conference was the announcement of Project Comet, Adobes new UX design tool. With just a few months until we expect to see a public release of the groundbreaking a...

Last month, when Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey moved into his new office and set about broadening the platforms appeal, little can he have anticipated the twitterstorm he would unleash with one tiny tweak. ...

Last week, streaming media service Netflix unveiled its new identity. Designed by New York-based agency Gretel the rebrand aims to unify the companys output across the 50 countries in which it now ope...

Here we are again with another month-worth of freebies for your enjoyment! Scroll down and youll find amazing icons, templates, mockups, themes, ui kits, fonts, layout tools, JavaScript snippets, and ...

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 ...