Articles by Web Designer Depot from January 2016

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 ...

Apps are everywhere. They have become an integral part of our daily lives thanks to the number of smartphones and wearable devices that we own. And because of that, apps are one of the single biggest ...

Yahoo is currently rolling out updates to its homepage and mobile app. The new design is being launched in the US, with other territories expected to follow shortly. The new experience, which visually...

The web is often seen as a decidedly two-dimensional medium. And, to be fair, it is. Thats what it was designed for. Whats more, the addition of three-dimensional graphics, rendered live, has traditio...

2015 witnessed a lot of changes and innovations, but 2016 has a lot more in store. With more people accessing the Internet via mobile devices than desktop computers, a sharp and continued decline in h...

Sketch aficionados will be excited to learn that theres an update to their favorite app awaiting them. Today makers of Sketch, Bohemian Coding, announced the availability of Sketch 3.5. Although the u...

Illustrations are taking over the Web. Designers are creating websites with everything from full-screen illustrations to hand-drawn divots that are used throughout projects. Its a trend thats likely t...

Your navigation menu makes or breaks your websites UX, which is what you should be primarily designing for at all times. Theres no better service you can provide your clients as a designer than to ens...

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 ...

Penguin Random House UK has undergone the first major redesign of its online presence since twopublishing giants merged in 2013. Aimed at reasserting its brand narrativesin a marketplace dominated by ...

They say nothing is harder, or more stressful than to design for yourself. Not to be a one-upper, but I can think of something worse: Re-designing. A redesign for yourself or your business can be quit...

One thing that not enough designers focus on when designing websites is cutting down on user errors. Thats a pity because user errors have a direct impact on a sites user experiencewhich has a direct ...

In today’s fast-changing eCommerce world, its challenging for any web designer to predict the future. Whats new today may be outdated tomorrow! To deliver customers a seamless shopping experienc...

In this months edition of whats new for designers and developers, weve included lots of jQuery resources, theme and mockup collections, email tools, productivity tools, collaboration tools, job huntin...

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 ...

As the number of mobile users continues to outpacethe number of desktop users, it should go without saying that designers, now more than ever, have to design with amobile-first mentality. With so many...

Hello all! And welcome to Januarys portfolio roundup. There will be a lot to appreciate about each portfolio listed here, so why not grab a coffee and browse through some of the best new sites to show...

Some site owners may well have been surprised this morning, when checking their analytics, to discover that customers are still visiting them using Internet Explorer. Despite the fact that yesterday M...

Theres probably no style and technology that are quite as well paired as the International Typographic Styleand CSS. When Detroit-based designer Jon Yablonski was looking for a way to flex his front-e...

In November 2015 I did a little talk at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City about designing Adobe Portfolio, and product design. You can watch the talk here. I originally wrote this artic...

Howdy friends! We’re back again with anotherroundup of some of the best freebies available for designers and developers. To helpyou through the post-Christmas blues and kick off 2016 in style we...

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 lot of web developers are making me angry. Why? Because theyre literally trying to make it harder for me to build websites. Well, theyre making it harder to use their latest and greatest inventions,...

When creating a website project, it’s always important to think about the end users of the site. Frequently it’s the case, however, that many designers focus too much on creating a site th...

When the world shifted from desktop computers to mobile devices, designers became even more focused on UX. Although the user interface plays an important role in creating mobile-friendly designs, the ...

Generally speaking, application design and web design are very different things. The key difference is that typically applications are designed to do something, while websites merely show something. I...

You spend weeks, months, maybe years, creating a product with an amazing UX. Doesnt matter if its an app, a website, a client project, or something else. Youve put all this time and effort into creati...

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 ...

Always do what you love. Thats what they say, right? If you follow your dreams and try to make it in the field that you actually enjoy the work, then you will be good at your job and (most importantly...

Every month we bring you the best new apps, frameworks, design and mobile resources, business resources, and more. Here we are at the end of 2015, and weve compiled a roundup of the best of what weve ...