Articles by Web Designer Depot from July 2018

From light and bright designs to complex data visualizations and a new take on polygons, this months design trends are anything but ordinary. And they are so practical you can deploy them on single pa...

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...

UX is a crucial component of modern web design, and users expectations are constantly shifting. Though we cannot see into the future, changes made throughout the last decade indicate that adjusting fo...

All sites have a barrier to entry. The lower you can make that barrier, the most users youll encourage to use your site, and the more successful your endeavors. We look at five ways to reduce barriers...

The perfect link is simple, honest, and usable. Heres how to design it....

Welcome to our roundup of the best websites launched (or significantly updated) this month. July is a strange time to launch a site with the Summer slowdown in full effect, but these intrepid entrepre...

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...

Before the blog took off, before Tumblr became the face of fandom, but around a year after Geocities launched as a platform for Justin Timberlake fan sites, there was The Wiki. We looked upon The Wiki...

Stepping into a website thats already well-established isnt always easy. For starters, you have to be careful about not stepping on anyones toes (the clients or even the previous designers) when provi...

Data visualization has quickly become a standard for disseminating information on the web. Its used across a range of industries, from business intelligence to journalism, to help us understand and co...

What kind of projects are you working on? It might be the hotter days (with more time at a computer) that have me focused on ways to enhance productivity. In this months roundup of new design tools an...

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 ...

There are so many distractions when you are a freelancer. From kids coming into your home office or time sucks like Facebook, you need to focus and be more efficient. The key is arming yourself with t...

They say that an image is worth a thousand words, and web designers certainly seem to have taken it to heart: the trend for image-rich, stylised page design means that there is now often little room f...

Did you know that the longest word in the English dictionary is 189,891 letters long? It is (and you can see a full spelling here). This word is the name for a protein dubbed Tintin and would take you...

Hello again, Readers. Its time to stop playing those games you got on the Steam Summer Sale for a minute, cause its July nowI know, it caught me off guard, too. This month, I say minimalist at least a...

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...

Exposure. Engagement. Interaction. Trolls calling you horrible things in real time. You can have all of these buzzwords and more through the magic of live streaming over the Internet! Its not all that...

One of the biggest concerns that freelancers have is that they can be isolated from others in similar fields. So can a professional network offer the additional resources you need to succeed? The answ...

Its no real secret that the size of web pages is increasing. Were adding more and more assets, slowing down sites, and ruining user experience. But even though weve identified the problem, we still wo...

The quality of critique sessions is a clear indicator of how well the creative process is being managed. When a design critique goes well, it can create more ideas on how to solve the problem at hand ...

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...