Articles by Web Designer Depot from January 2019

In January 2018 alone, consumers conducted over 1 billion voice searches. By 2020, its estimated that 30% of all online searches will take place without the use of a screen. Needless to say, voice sea...

Welcome to 2019! Its a brand new year and there are plenty of sites taking advantage of the optimism to start afresh. Every month we publish a guide to the freshest websites launched (or relaunched wi...

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...

For many designers, Photoshop is the number one tool for editing images, but for many other designers, Photoshop is an expensive, bloated, and inefficient tool. In the last few years, the number of ap...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a lot of photographers arent getting paid enough. When a writer actually manages to build a business for themselveswell lets just say we do okay. Most of us don...

Every December the color categorizing company Pantone nominates one of its colors as a hue for the next 12 months. The act is intended to create positivity around messages such as the environment, gen...

One of the must-have technologies for sites in 2019 will be geolocation. Not only does geolocation help with security, and legal compliance, but it also improves customer experienceone of the key metr...

New year, new design tools. As your start regrouping and reorganizing in 2019, why not make good on those resolutions and try a new design element or two. Weve got plenty to choose from here. If 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...

Theres been a fairly big update to Behance, also known as DeviantArt for designers. Heck, I remember when I used DA for my portfolio. Good times. Anyway Behance. Theyve gone and updated what has to be...

There were few logos more recognizable than Slacks. In the five years since the messaging service gained traction it has become a staple on desktopsas much a part of many professionals daily routine a...

The purpose of almost every web design is to entice customers into buying your products, or subscribing to your services. However, your website cant accomplish that goal without providing a superior u...

All of the work you do to grow your web design business requires an investment of time and energy. And if you do this song-and-dance routine for long enough, youre bound to become exhausted by it all....

Welcome back, WDD Readers. Its January 2019, and were all coming back to work bleary-eyed and bushy-tailed. Why dont you take a moment to put off wor I mean get inspired by these new portfolios? 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...

GitHub has made its first really big change since Microsoft acquired it a while back, and its a good one for small-to-medium sized design studios, freelancers, and anyone who writes front-end code for...

Oftentimes, no matter how you handle a project, the client is an *** and youve no choice but to walk away. JW Waste Management [not its real name] is that kind of client. If wed paid attention to our ...

Im a big fan of templates. Theyre an essential part of any productive designers workflow and they can also be really helpful in boosting your brands identity through greater consistency and profession...

Every human being needs, rather desperately, to feel accepted. They dont necessarily need to feel accepted by everyone, but they do need to feel accepted by someone. Its a part of our nature, and natu...

New year, new design trends! While everyone is talking about big-picture trends such as designing for voice and virtual reality, there are more immediate design elements that you can see (and deploy) ...

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...

Web designers have typically always been big-picture people, in that they like having really big screens in front of them. Its convenient, and it makes you feel very professional. At this point in my ...

Its going to happen at some point this year; you will face designer burnout. One of the reasons that burnout is so common for creatives is that its a never-ending process. (You cant just stop having i...

No, no. I didnt go researching modern-day witchcraft or anything like I did with Taoism. No, Im taking web design lessons from a set of entirely fictional witches who live on a flat, circular world wh...

Happy New Year to one and all! At this time every year we like to publish our predictions of what the web industry will be up to over the coming twelve months. It also serves as a chance to reflect on...