Articles by Web Designer Depot from June 2018

An OnDeck Vacation Study reported that only 57% of small business owners planned on taking a vacation last year. Further, only about a quarter of these owners would allow themselves a few days away fr...

When designers and developers work on projects, they have a lot of questions: What do our users expect to see on this screen? How are users supposed to interact with our product? What should our onboa...

Once upon a time in the long lost world of the 1997 (more or less), a little boy was growing up watching Hercules: the Legendary Journeys, and Xena: Warrior Princess on the weekends. He got a Hotmail ...

When you work for a user experience design company for as long as I have, you start to notice the cyclical nature of industry trends. Just like fashion or art, what goes out of style inevitably resurf...

With the heat of summer comes a little bit of a design slowdown, but there are still plenty of projects worth your attention. Most of the major design trends happening right now feature structural com...

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 ...

Your team is all spread out your designers are working from Lisbon, your content team is in New York, and your project manager is in Argentina. How do you create a system that makes it simple to organ...

As every kid knows, making cool stuff is the fun part. You dump all of your toys on the floor, and sort through them until you find what you want, and make it all fit together to build a spaceship, or...

A website is a place where a business can educate its audience about its brand. What it does. Why it does it. What theyll get out of being there. That, in and of itself, is a lot of information. When ...

No summertime blues here. With so many new tools, the dog days of summer will be filled with playing with new elements and expanding your design portfolio. If weve missed something that you think shou...

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...

Why isnt my site ranking in searches? Why has traffic not improved since we hired you? Calls from customers are actually down… do you even know what youre doing?! Ahthe music of irate customers,...

Consumers and designers alike look to giants of any industry for inspiration. Often times, the inspiration has to do with the specific product the company develops. In the tech world, there a quite a ...

Alright, so let me begin by addressing the title because there is a method to my madness: There are literally hundreds of articles out there with tips, tricks, and best practices when it comes to e-co...

Its been just three years since Adobe unveiled Adobe Stock, and in that time the service has grown from 40 million photos and vectors, to over 90 million assets ranging from professional photographs, ...

Bauhaus (meaning School of Building) is a legendary design school, based in Germany in the early part of the 20th century. Although it survived just 14 yearsclosed by political pressure as the Third R...

Welcome back, Readers. Its June, and if I got paid extra for every instance of the word minimalist in this article, I could probably afford to vacation in Canada. Well, my point is that minimalism is ...

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...

By most terms of reference, 70 years is a long time70 years ago, copywriter David Ogilvy decided to part ways with his former business partner, Edmund Mather; together, they had made up what was known...

Weve been developing websites using the Joomla CMS (Content Management System) since its inception way back in September of 2005. During this time we have planned, designed, developed and supported hu...

So yeah, what the title said. Microsoft is buying GitHub for 7.5 BILLION with a B US dollars. This is officially this weeks Big DealTM, and everyones going to be talking about it. It would not be quit...

The best format for images on the web in 2018 is SVG. Not only is SVG resolution-independentmeaning that SVG graphics stay crisp at any size, on any devicebut SVG file sizes are smaller than other com...

Sometimes the most fun part of looking at design trends is when you start to notice subtle shifts in trends that create new design patterns altogether. Each of the trends this month is an evolution of...

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 ...

Looking to boost your search rankings? While nothing can help you reach an audience better than great content, there are simple habits that can help you boost search ranking and provide valuable infor...

CSS Grid is here, people are starting to use it, and its even referenced by our industrys latest official buzzword. I could go on about how its the future of web design and layout. I could wax lyrical...

The animation and VFX scene is growing everyday with almost all feature films now containing some clever CGI. Even the movies with no monsters or other worlds have cleverly swapped out landscapes and ...