Articles by Web Designer Depot from December 2016

Those not completely familiar with Samsungs Galaxy S7 smartphones may not have heard about Gear VR, the companys mobile virtual reality headset. Users wearing the Gear VR get to utilize their phone as...

Design, by its very nature, is there to be judged. We do it every daywhether its our own creation, or that of someone else. When we see something, were looking at it and forming an opinion (positive o...

User experience is a broad term that gets bandied around at meetings and swapped with user interface as if the two are the sametheyre not. This confusion has probably affected your career as UX and we...

Web surveys are important tools that websites and businesses can use to gauge important feedback from their site visitors and customers. Web surveys are also somewhat unsung elements of a site because...

User interface design is a hot topic these days and for good reason. In a world where digital experiences are such a large part of our lives, the value of a quality user experience is higher than ever...

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 coined a term today: Loathsome Design. It means something along the lines of design decisions that make me want to die.In other words, its the opposite of the recently populardesigning for delight c...

Vivaldi is a browser thats an alternative to better-known browsers like Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Launched only earlier this year, it has a long way to go before it claims a fair share of the browse...

Nothing can ruin a design like typography that doesnt fit. Whether its too big (or too small), improper type scaling is a major problem. Its a problem for more designs than you might think. Too common...

Spark Video, Adobes video-storytelling app, just got a huge update. While users have always been able to use Spark Video to create animated videos that feature photos, narration, icons and text, users...

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 2016, and weve compiled a roundup of the best of what weve ...

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 ...

Wow! is the usual response on trying VR for the first time. Even after spending hours in a headset, the experience is still extraordinary. From a designers point of view, VR introduces a range of new ...

Its that time of the year when people all round the world gather in their homes, with their loved ones. They sing songs, consume beverages both warm and cold, and tell stories of the greatest portfoli...

Photography is one of the ever-evolving disciplines of art direction that we can never get enough of. Alongside typography and illustration, photography does more to add character to design than any o...

Have you heard of pattern libraries, style guides, component libraries, design patterns or UI toolkits? Dont worry if youre confused or dont know the differences. Here’s a secretmost people in t...

Theres just 12 shopping days to go until Christmas, finding the perfect gift in that time can present a challenge. To relieve some of the stress of the holiday season were making it easy for you with ...

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 ...

In a definite shift towards platform parity, Affinity Photo has finally been relased for Windows, delivering everything that the hugely popular Mac software does. The availability of a Windows version...

Want to make a great first impression? It starts with your websites header. The image a user sees will leave an impressiongood or badand determine whether that user clicks and continues, or leaves the...

Themes are a great way to speed up a website launch. They make for a fantastic minimum viable product when you need to get going, and fast. Put a little work into them, and you might never need a cust...

This month we got the opportunity to interview Kevin Ball and Rafi Benkual from ZURB. We got to talk about the future of the web, the state of web design today, and of course, about Foundation. Webdes...

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 ...

Lettering is all the rage at the moment. Creating expressive text, that goes beyond what you can do with a single font adds a creative touch to any project. But learning to craft high-end lettering ta...

On Tuesday we presented the Ultimate Guide to CMS, Part 1; today, were going to complete the picture Choosing a CMS OK, so youve got an idea of how many different kinds of CMS there are out there. Now...

Bread crumbsthey bring up associations with the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel, where Hansel leaves bread crumbs to help him find his way home again. Although the association with bread crumbs is per...