Design & UX

Daniel Schwarz compares the best monospace fonts for developers that make coding a little easier on the eyes.

Michiel Mulders explains the meaning of positive reinforcement in terms of UX, and offers practical tips for improving the experience of website visitors.

Michiel Mulders discusses the importance of microcopy for enhancing UX, and offers five tips for helping users better understand your site.

Improve your user experience with machine learning. Learn five strategies where machine learning solutions can realistically solve design problems today.

Michiel introduces five best practices you can use to provide a more learnable interface to your users, from consistency to familiarity and storification.

We look at seven WordPress themes covering a wide range of niches that provide the perfect launching pad for designing your own, unique portfolio sites.

Learn why SVG is superior to pixel graphics in terms of scalability, responsiveness, interactivity, programmability, performance, and accessibility.

Kilian Valkhof introduces Polypane, a multi-function web browser built for developing websites in multiple views at once.

We dig deeper into the build versus buy dilemma of adding analytics capabilities to apps and explain why it’s better to use embedded analytics.

Flipsnack is a design/layout tool similar to InDesign and Affinity Publisher that helps you easily create professional layouts online.

A cheatsheet of the fonts and colors used by Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Messenger, Snapchat, Whatsapp and YouTube, with links to official brand assets.

Daniel Schwarz suggests the best places to find free fonts in 2020, along with tips and usage advice to think about when choosing a font for the web.

Dan Schwarz looks at some of the best Figma plugins you can install to get extra functionality and improve your design workflow.

In this ultimate ADA compliance guide, we’ve laid out the things your web design agency needs to know to make accessible websites.

There's no lack of tools and services out there that you could put to use to improve your products or your business.

Daniel Schwarz offers tips on designing for screen readers, and walks through how Adobe XD CC’s design handoff and voice prototyping features help with this.

Everyone has a business card—is yours any different? Designing the ideal card for your business is a project that deserves real time and thought.

We review 15 WordPress themes that will supercharge your web design process and save you time and stress.

Image optimization affects site performance, and here we cover some standard approaches to image optimization and explore advanced image processing options.

Gal Shachar digs into all the things you can do to advance your design career, from marketing yourself, building a brand, experimenting, and launching a side business, to putting your name and work out there for people to find.

Gal Shachar introduces Bannersnack, an online, drag-and-drop interface that lets you design banner ads quickly and efficiently, saving time and money.

Daniel Schwarz looks at the types of mind maps that are used in UX, and the mind mapping tools that are used to create them.

Let’s take a look at some of the worst UX mistakes we’ll really, really want to avoid while trying to “scale up” our businesses.

Daniel Schwarz investigates various ways Google Analytics can uncover how your users are navigating your website and to give insights into user journeys and potential problem areas.

Mark Seabridge provides an overview of the fundamentals for each of the most commonly used user research methods.

Georgina Laidlaw explains why content is a vital part of user experience, and suggests looking at content in a different way — looking at content as UX, rather than as something for filling spaces.

The right tools and resources can be invaluable for getting things right. Let's look at several of the best.

Dave Kearney compares the top 15 prototyping tools disrupting the design tool market today, with video overviews of each one.

Jodie Moule tells the story of how she came to launch her successful Cook app, and how user research was all-important in making it the best app it could be.

Amanda Stockwell explains Design Thinking, Lean UX, and Agile, and how to implement elements of each for your team. Each approach is meant to solve a particular problem, and elements of each may be useful, so you’ll have to find what works for your team.