Articles by Web Designer Depot from February 2018

With free tutorials you can teach yourself almost anything online. But premium video libraries are often much more detailed with pro-level instructors. These videos are very helpful when youre just ge...

Not keeping track of your websites metrics, or doing it but not taking action based on what you find, is more or less equal to walking around in pitch darkness hoping to somehow reach your destination...

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...

Storytelling is great for design, so long as you arent trying to sell a fairy tale Do you tell your users a story about how youll save them from their troubles? Its not very realistic, and users gener...

Trends often do little to push design forward or improve user experience...

What is DesignOps? Why does your team need this? And how can DesignOps help your design/development team succeed? This article answers these questions and also provides you with useful tips on how to ...

It looks great, but can you make it pop more? Weve all been there, the dreaded subjective design feedback, no use to anyone; lets stop a moment and look at what led to this subjective nonsense, what c...

Hey everyone! Its February, and you know what that means: Hallmark executives get bonuses! Also, people make a special effort to show love and affection to those they care about, which is cool too. Th...

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 ...

All modern browsers support the SVG filetype and its quickly becoming a favored choice among web designers. You can design beautiful icons as SVGs and scale them to any size without quality loss. This...

Starting any new business venture is exciting. Youre free from the shackles of corporate life and youre finally able to control your own schedule, rates, client base, and workflow. Life as a freelance...

Taking the complex and developing a system that appears simple, without reducing the core functionality of the site....

AMP is a contentious technology, to be sure. People seem pretty sure that Google intends to use it to shackle publishers and users to the search engine (like we werent already), and that its just anot...

This is a true story. The events described in this article took place at some point in the authors career. At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the clients,...

Sometimes you need to practice a little self-care. When it comes to self-care for work and design professionals that often means spending a little time to learn something new and re-energize yourself....

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 ...

If you are a web designer/developer who currently bills per hour, I hope I can persuade you to change your pricing method to value-based pricing. In this article, I will discuss both methods in detail...

Holistic web design: it just sounds so… 60s counter-culture acid-fueled epiphany-like. But its worth looking at anyway. I mean, everyone here has either read the Dirk Gently books, or at least w...

It seems like innovation just cant leave designers alone. At first, it was the computer revolution; As Adrian Shaughnessy put it, the introduction of Macintosh meant no more mechanical artwork, no mor...

Sometimes you run across a website or app that just blows your mind. You sit there for a minute, wondering just how in the heck they pulled that off. How indeed? Well, good news for everybody! Theres ...

Checkup Calls & Swag is the sixth and final part of The Ultimate UX Design Guide to SaaS Customer Onboarding....

The hamburger menu was initially introduced as a means to obscure secondary navigation items in an effort to maintain a cleaner and more focused web or application design. Android was one of the early...

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 a freelancer, there are times when you need to fill the gap between clients, or up your income a bit by completing micro-gigs. Micro-gigs can be ideal freelance projects because they typically don&...

Creating products which respond to the users needs has become the de-facto standard approach for product design. In the attempt to create the best possible experience designers constantly search for n...

Whenever someone asks, How can I increase traffic to my website? the answer is invariably, Regularly post new content. You could be alone in the forest where the proverbial tree fell when you ask this...