Articles by Web Designer Depot from September 2017

The days of above the fold are over. Long scrolling and infinite scrolling sites are becoming more and more popular lately, and its no coincidence that this technique translates well to mobile devices...

Theres a lot you can do with just CSS and a web browser. Great developers love to push the envelope and show just how much is possible. While experimental projects arent always useful on production si...

Free stuff! Get your free stuff here! Well, its a free vector editor, anyway. We like those, right? To be more specific, I am talking about Gravit. Like I said, its free, it always will be, and it has...

The WordPress content management system has built quite an empire for itself, with a community of passionate fans that help push it to new heights. Its the customizability of the platform that has eve...

When it comes to technology, faster isnt always better. Its true that47 percentof people want web pages to load in two seconds or less (and 40 percent abandon sites that take three seconds to load). B...

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 am afailure. My side projects have not made me millions. Ive not been featured on the App Store. I have not won Site Of The Day on Awwwards, Ive not even had an Honourable Mention. Im now over the h...

Scaling design is one of the greatest challenges faced by product teams today. Thats because design just doesnt scale like engineering. As teams, products, and processes grow, things eventually break....

The colors you choose while designing a website, poster, or any other type of image, will have a huge impact on whether or not the overall design is successful. After all, there is a lot of psychology...

I like money. Clients give me money (when everything goes right). Ergo, therefore, and hopefullyclients = money, more clients = more moneyIm actually pretty terrible at math. When you first start out ...

Sometimes your typeface needs to convey feeling as much as meaning, and for that function more designers are turning to dramatic typography. This type of typography is used for more than just legibili...

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 ...

No matter how well-designed your user interface may be, at some point or another, people using it are going to have to wait for something to load. The loading time could harm the overall experience. M...

Okay WDD readers, this one is going to get real conceptual. Im here to talk about leaving two-dimensional user interfaces behind. Ditching the screen. Going 3D in the real world. Well, you know what I...

SaaS Customer On-boarding is the process that users have to experience while initiating their journey as a customer on a companys software application. Customer on-boarding initiates from the experien...

Icons are one of the most characteristic elements in many designs; theyre also one of the most readily available resources to be found online, with free icon packs all over the web. Free icons give de...

This months collection of new tools is a mashup of sortsthere are a lot of new elements, components and typefaces out there and they are all totally different. From patterns to UI kits to browser exte...

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 the last few years, machine learning and artificial intelligence have been hitting the headlines often. The technology has been making progress in leaps and bounds. The physical limitations on comp...

Modern web design involves a lot of moving parts like content design, icon work, andUX design strategies. One newer trend is the useof microinteractionson web and mobile projects. These look great in ...

Microcopy is the little bits of text that guide users through an experience. In apps and websites, microcopy includes things like button labels, hint text, and error messages. Often an afterthought th...

Greetings, Readers! Yep, its that time again, that sweet, beautiful time when all the kids go back to school and there is a daily eight-hour window when I can play online games in peace. But instead o...

Have you heard the dangerous lie thats going around? It goes like this: Design isnt that important. I have an ugly site and it sells like crazy. It outperforms the well designed site I used to have. T...

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 ...

Madonna once said that music makes the rebel and the bourgeoisie come together. I find it difficult to believe that either of these demographics would spend much time listening to pop from the year 20...

The checkout experience is arguably the most crucial aspect of your online store. Any hiccups and the customer could get distracted, disappointed, or leaveouting your company (that pays your salary) o...