Articles by Web Designer Depot from April 2016

Design is about problem solving, whether that be visual, structural, conceptual, or any other al. If theres a problem, it follows that there is a solution. When Steve Jobs hired design legend Paul Ran...

Design is about problem solving, whether that be visual, structural, conceptual, or any other al. If theres a problem, it follows that there is a solution. When Steve Jobs hired design legend Paul Ran...

This week Adobe announced the first update for Experience Design CC since its public preview. The update is a response to the feedback Adobe received from the design community. In a blog post, the com...

Starting out on your own as a freelancer is exciting. Youre making your talents available to the world, and are ready to make your mark. While this career path can be very rewarding (monetarily and ot...

Picking colors for a design, a piece of art, or a living room for that matter, has never been easy for a lot of us. Even the pros sometimes get lost in all of the potential variants and combinations. ...

Building a brand online is a different task to traditional brand building. Of course it wont hurt to combine the offline and online marketing techniques, and indeed for best results, you should do tha...

Hey there! We are proud to return fully stacked with a collection of resources and tools that will help you make the most of your web design/development skills. This month we have an appealing 3D text...

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 ...

One of the biggest buzz phrases at the moment is Conversational UX. It refers to a user experience in which your interaction with a company, or service, is automated based on your prior behavior. Cont...

In a move thats billed as worldwide brand unification, the Coca Cola Company announced a major redesign of its look this week. The new design language, pioneered in Mexico and soon to roll out globall...

In a move thats billed as worldwide brand unification, the Coca Cola Company announced a major redesign of its look this week. The new design language, pioneered in Mexico and soon to roll out globall...

Ten years ago, building a web site was a marketable skill; today, there are a myriad of site builders that can do the job, and increasingly web designers are finding themselves moving into the more ad...

For over a decade, designers have debated what constitutes simplicity in user experience design. As Robert Hoekman Jr. points out in his articleWhen It Comes to UX Design, Simplicity is Overrated, the...

If theres anything Ive learned workingfor a tech company, its that in order to build a websitea really amazing, beautiful and high-functioning websitea multitude of different talents and elements have...

Microsoft knows how to keep eager developers waiting and waiting. For approximately one year, the company has kept its cross-platform text editor for developers in beta. That all changed now thatMicro...

You know that unsettling feeling when youre half way through a project and youre presenting design concepts? No major feedback, smiles across the table, heads nodding yes. Home run right? No, that fee...

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 ...

Successfulweb design hinges on good research, targeting the rightdemographic, identifying key problems and developing appropriate solutions. But how you start when your target demographic is literally...

Adobe is arguably the designers program of choice when it comes to anything video-related. Now, we have the opportunity to use Adobe Premiere Pro in a truly, collaborative fashion. Recently, Frame.io,...

WordPress 4.5 is out, and all over the world, writers, editors, designers, and developers rejoice! Or, you know, scramble to update their themes and plugins, as the case may be. As features go, this i...

Compiled from years of experience of the diverse, exciting, complex, and engaging creative industry, Radim Malinics Book of Ideas is a compilation of everything hes learned throughout his career. An i...

Users of Adobe Post will no doubt already be familiar with its ability to create social graphics in no time at all. Today, Adobe released Post 2.5, which gives users more features and control over how...

Simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything. Thats the entire premise of Carrd, and it delivers in a big way. Who is it for? If youre the kind of person who sells a variety ...

In this months edition of whats new for designers and developers, weve included productivity apps, static website builders, stock photo sources, community resources, WordPress tools, open source tools...

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 ...

Its just four years until the Tokyo Summer Olympics and Paralympics, and while the eyes of the sporting world may currently be set on Brazil, attention will turn to Tokyo once the torch is (literally)...

Its fitting that Operas ex-CEO is now releasing the finished Vivaldi browser. After all, some say that Vivaldi caters to the demographic that Opera left behind. There was a time that Opera was being d...

Hey everybody, its time to look at other peoples portfolios and get slightly jealous again! And guess what? For the first time ever, the majority of the websites we feature come from our very own read...

The FS Untitled micro-site is a digital playground packed with typographic experiments. Designed in-house by London-based type foundry FontSmith to advertise their new typeface of the same name, the s...

Users whove been clamoring for new features in Microsofts Edge browser finally have reason to be excited: the company recently announced in a blog post that there are new extensions for Edge, which wa...

Hewlett-Packard, that giant of computing, has just released its new logo. Um… again. Well, not really again. Sigh. If you havent heard, theres two Hewlett-Packards now, okay?Now, Id really like ...

Whether you are a designer, a developer, or both, chances are high that you have several versions or instances of the same project on your computer at any one time. The problem is, it can be hard to k...

Prototyping, as a concept, has been around since before the Internet. Typically, people developing a new physical product would first build the thing, and make sure that it worked as intended. The fir...

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 ...

Since 2014, Google has been redesigning its apps and services according to its own Material Design principles. Yesterday it announced on its design blog that an upcoming release of its Chrome browser ...

As citizens of the digital world, we are constantly flooded with data. From website analytics to our fitness tracker, data is all around us. As a result, for the front-end designersit is becoming incr...