Articles by Web Designer Depot from June 2016

As a designer or developer of responsive websites, your ultimate goal, no doubt, is to maximize an image for each unique device, while not making the files so big they slow down the load time or use e...

Hollywood is the holy grail for the whole movie industry, and its where all blockbusters (or most of them at least) come from. These movies cost a lot of money, but they (usually) also make a lot more...

Designers are changing the rules for web design, thanks to creative problem solving. Auto-play sound, mixing real and illustrated images and even layering logos on top of photos are some of the hottes...

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 ...

The importance of design in the tech industry has grown over the last few years, along with a greater appreciation for designers who know how to work within development constraints. We produce our bes...

If youre building a brand for a client, youll sell the pitch far more effectively if you can deliver not just flat design concepts, but detailed mockups too. To give you a boost in the right direction...

The concept of the user experience is often broken down into two areas: theory and practice. Theyre not the same thing because what may work in theory obviously doesnt always work in practice, and thi...

If weve said it once, weve said it a hundred times: you cant have too many fonts. Different typefaces are like the voices with which an actor speaks; they give you the power of expression, allowing yo...

Craft is InVisions suite of screen-design tools that lets designers easily add content with a click. Two things designers value in their workflowsspeed and dataare efficiently brought into their proje...

If youre a web professional, theres a good chance youve found yourself spending at least some time on the wrong problems. Maybe you were asked to implement a useless feature. Maybe youve ended up spen...

Adobe has just released a major update to its Creative Cloud apps. Updates have been made to Adobe Stock, and Creative Sync, meaning that almost every application in the ecosystem is affected. The upd...

Netflix has just updated its branding with a new logomark. Or is it just a really short logotype? In any case, the saga of 2016 logo updates continues with a brand new N made in a ribbon-style. First ...

MacOS 10.12 is out in beta. Early beta tests can be buggy though. If you want that fresh Mac feel on your current version without the riskor on your PC for that matteryou can download the new wallpape...

In this months edition of whats new for designers and developers, weve included new apps, JavaScript libraries, mobile dev tools, graphic design apps, blogging platforms, CSS frameworks, color resourc...

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 ...

With the amount of time we spend online, it seems like more people know us by our avatars than by our faces these days. But who wants a dodgy iPhone selfie, when you can have one of these awesome vect...

What is a design-driven organization, according to designers? What organizations put a legitimate emphasis on design? Conversely, which industries seem to lag behind the rest? All of these questions a...

One of the hottest trends right now is illustrationits the perfect way to give your site some contemporary cool. But illustration takes a lot of skill, and a lot of time. Imagine if you had unlimited ...

One of our biggest challenges when producing client workis communicating technical information effectively with clients. Many developers in our community face similar obstacles. Selling and shipping t...

Yesterday a federal court in the US ruled that the Internet must be treated as a utility, not a luxury. The court, specifically the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit,...

Google Fonts is the latest Google service thats gotten a design makeover. The directory of free web fonts makes it a cinch for designers to customize fonts, share fonts with their colleagues, and even...

Your business is starving.Youre struggling to get the clients and projects you need to keep your business going. Sometimes, it feels like youll never be able to get enough clients. Youre not like ever...

On Monday, Microsoft and LinkedIn announced that Microsoft would buy LinkedIn in an all-cash deal for $196 a share, at $26.2 billion. In a news release on the Microsoft website, both companies vowed t...

2016 has been one of the best years for type design in decades. The lettering craze has pushed a lot of illustrators towards digitizing their work. Theres a ton of great font software available these ...

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 ...

Big news from the Affinity Designer team! No, its not out on Windows yet (theyre still working on that). Theyve introduced two new features that will make working with Affinity Designer a bit easier. ...

More than any other medium, the web offers the opportunity to redesign, republish, reedit, revamp, and redo our work over and over again. Print designers hit thedeadline at 5pm on a Friday, send the a...

It doesnt really matter how big your monitor is, its not big enough; you could always use a few extra pixels for those occasional-use panels, or perhaps to run a couple of browsers side-by-side. Tradi...

Website builder Wixhas just announced the release of a system it has dubbed Artificial Design Intelligenceor ADI for shortthat its marketing as The Future of Website Building. Wix ADI claims to be an ...

Working as a freelancer means that your business is all about you. Youre the sole person in charge of making the tough decisions. Youll decide how to market your business, which services to offer and ...

Greetings, readers! Summer is here. Its time to beat the June heat by staying inside where the air conditioner is. While youre there, have a look at our latest collection of portfolio sites. This mont...

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 ...

Have you ever looked at a font and thought: I could do that!? Well, now you canfor a fraction of the price of professional font publishing software. Our sister-site, MightyDeals, is running a fabulous...

Despite valiant efforts to come up with an alternative approach, pop-ups still infest the web. It seems like every site you visit wants you to sign up for a newsletter, take advantage of an offer, vis...

Adobeis introducinga new feature for Photoshop that designers using this software should find useful. Thats because the new feature addresses an old problem that many users have come across, but could...

Have you ever been caught in a revision loop? Where youre stuck in an endless cycle of revisions, edits and corrections?If youve gone through this, you know its a disaster. A client, your bosssomeone ...

If youve ever done any kind of design work, especially on the web, youll know that a great source of stock images is an essential component in your toolbox. Very few clients can afford all-bespoke pho...