“Design tools are not like football clubs. Just because you support one, doesn’t mean you can’t support the other. That mentality will stunt you in your journey. Use the right tool for the right job.”

The future of design tools

What designers can take from video games.

What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages in 12 months

Common issues and ideas for better performing landing pages.

“World is saturated with design prototyping tools, but we’re missing the production tools for the last 5%, which is like, 90% of the work.”

UX design doesn’t end with your website

The many ways you can extend the UX design from your website.

“You haven’t mastered a tool until you understand when it should not be used.”

Design Regression

A journal about design for reading and reading-related research.

Halide for iPad

The powerful camera app, rethought for a whole new form factor.

Iconoir

A huge and diverse library of open source SVG icons.

Unveiling Material You

Google unveils Material You, the next level of its design language.

Designing between the lines

It’s all about designing the relationships between things.

aRty face

Create visuals like avatars from images using dots, lines, or ascii.

A generative SVG starter kit

All the technical stuff you need to make wonderful generative art.

“We don’t talk enough about how the majority of people who make UX decisions are not designers.”

New research study on small catalog, direct-to-consumer UX

What to consider when selling products directly to your end customers.

CSS container queries for designers

A long-requested CSS feature will change the way web designers work.

Why user-centred design struggles with ethics

It’s time for an opinionated but flexible model of design.

“We really can’t say ‘that’s a great UX’ or ‘this is intuitive’ without asking first who it’s for and what problem it is supposed to solve.”

Hello Halftones

An online tool to create and download halftone patterns from images.

Dinamo Font Gauntlet

An online tool to proof, generate, and animate (Variable) Fonts.

A practical guide to inclusive research

The why and how to make your UX research practice more inclusive.

2021 logo trend report

This year is about drama: comedy, tragedy and satire.

9 ways to get more email survey responses

How to send surveys email your subscribers want to fill out.

“The most satisfying thing in design is eyeballing the placement of the object, and later discovering it was perfectly placed.”

Responsive design and container queries? Oh my!

The practice of responsive design continues to evolve.

Always provide a submit button adjacent to the search field on mobile

21% of mobile e-commerce websites failed to provide one.

Cognitive bias and the design process

Let’s avoid that our own bias creep into the design process.

The perfect link

How to write, design, and code links that works for everyone on every device.

I helped pioneer UX design. What I see today horrifies me

Where did we go wrong?

Dark patterns that mislead consumers are all over the internet

Take a quiz to see if you can spot the dark patterns.

New styling tools in Adobe XD

More ways to shape, color, and shade your designs in Adobe’s UI/UX tool.

The 4 biggest UI trends shaping Apple’s future

What Apple’s recent product announcements have revealed.

“Hope” wakes

What if UX was a movement instead of a profession?

How to build better digital experiences with UX writing principles

Key principles of UX writing illustrated by examples.

Fidenza

Generative art: core algorithm, color palettes, special features, and more.

Learn how to improve your content with Search Console Insights

Get better insights on how your content is performing.

Flow

An image editor to create interesting effects with pixel-flows.

We’ve made Freehand available to everyone

InVision has improved its popular team collaboration tool.

Optical size, the hidden superpower of variable fonts

What it is, how it works, and how to use it yourself.

30 quality updates

Figma came up with 30 updates to enhance the design workflow.

Asynchronous design critique: giving feedback

How feedback can be adjusted for remote work environments.

Digital Design Talks

Interviews with design leaders from around the world.

AVE (Avian Vector Encyclopedia)

Beautiful illustrations of the birds of the world.

A simple tip to increase conversions

Handle common objections underneath call to actions.

Announcing Adobe Substance 3D

A suite of interoperable tools and services that support 3D creativity.

Storybook 6.3

New visual inspection tools, revamped integrations, and more.

NVIDIA Canvas

Turn simple brushstrokes into realistic landscape images.

YouTube Shorts vs TikTok

Which one is more addictive to use as a viewer and a content-creator?

“When designing, make as many bad ideas as possible. Make so many bad ideas that only ideas left are the good ones.”

Penzil

An online tool for sketching in 3D, primarily designed for touch screens.

“It’s been tough to recruit product designers with great visual design and an eye for detail. Did we atomic-design-system and product-manager-skills a generation out of having them?”

The most popular design thinking strategy is BS

Why the “How might we” design prompt is insidious.

Whatever happened to UI affordances?

“Flat, minimalist, clean, material – whatever you want to call it – is an annoying antipattern.”

Streamline

100,000 icons, illustrations and emoji for your projects.

Icon fonts are usually a bad idea

There is a much better solution today, without web performance issues.

10 things I’ve learnt as a Content Designer

To build content for your users, make sure you understand them first.

Information Architecture Lenses

A set of lenses to help you interrogate information architecture decisions.

Asynchronous design critique: getting feedback

Getting good feedback starts earlier than we might expect.

Personality for voice interfaces

Humanizing the most human of user experiences.

“All designers really want is to have a say in… 1. designing the right thing 2. designing the thing right.”

“The west is still using QR codes totally wrong. A QR code on a restaurant table that opens the menu is not really what we want. A QR code can be unique to the table and allow food ordering directly to it. Should carry state and context.”

Design systems don’t kill creativity, but that wasn’t the question

Can product designers fulfill the expectations set for them?

“The word ‘intuitive’, when applied to computer interfaces, should pretty much always be replaced with ‘familiar’ (‘to me’).”

The large, small, and dynamic viewports

We will finally be able to solve an old bug in Safari on iOS.

Typedream

A powerful no-code website builder that is simple and intuitive.

Access Guide

A friendly introduction to digital accessibility.

To learn a new UX skill, read an old book

It’s an opportunity to learn something new to you.

Bringing markers back to UI design

How to make Figma play nice with freehand sketches.

UI fail

Why users abandon mobile sites and what you can do about it.

“A design system doesn't need 300 people involved right out of the gate. Give a small, smart, and scrappy team the time, resources, and autonomy to get things properly set up. Things will grow over time, but start small.”

SVG Favicon Generator

Submit your SVG logo or icon to get a modern favicon.

Google Font to SVG Path

Generate an SVG path from some words or characters in a Google Font.

Scenic Background Animated Pack

A collection of 60+ background scenes from around the globe.

Clover

A creative workspace with a daily planner, tasks, notes, and whiteboards.

The current state of e-commerce homepage UX

Design pitfalls to be aware of when you want to improve your homepage.

Comparing design mockups to code result

Ways to compare the original designs to the HTML/CSS result.

Polypane 6.2

HTML validation, robots.txt support, RTL emulation and more.

Programming with Ratio

A new environment for prototyping and building UIs and apps.

An emoji for your thoughts

Microsoft celebrates the diversity of expressions in its new emoji system.

Gradient Art

Advanced CSS gradient editor with many examples for your inspiration.

Unavatar

Get a user avatar based on username, email or domain across multiple services.

Designing for the unexpected

How can we create services for situations we can’t imagine?

New emojis in 2021-2022

A look at what the next emoji update might bring.

gridless.design

Do we need design grids for digital layouts at all?

RTL:WTF

Make your head spin and read the web like Right-to-Left readers do.

Tricycle

Make product design tools that automate parts of your design process.

From a colorblind designer to the world

Please stop using red and green together.

Mockup Hand Gestures

A collection of ethereal hand motions for your real-world designs.

Figmalion

A regular newsletter about Figma, the popular interface design tool.

Godly Website

A resource for those interested in web and interactive design.

The 2021 Design Systems Survey

How other folks are making their design systems successful.

“Desktop websites should just be 3 mobile websites in a trench coat.”

Introducing Showcase

Framer’s new home for community-created interactive designs and prototypes.

“The more we invest in UX research, the easier and better everything else gets when trying to deliver well-designed products and services. We burn so many wasted calories compensating for no or poor research.”

Are UI tips the new clickbait for designers?

Make sure you get UI tips from reputable sources.

In defense of simple charts

Simple visualization types don’t need to be boring.

A new age for teamwork in Webflow

The popular no-code web design platform empowers collaboration.

“All design debt is technical debt. All technical debt is design debt. There is no difference.”

“Trends fade. Fundamentals do not. I see so many designers that can design really pretty stuff, but when you break it down, it’s missing basic fundamentals and is an absolute mess. Work on fundamentals too y’all.”

The real ROI of making your products more accessible

A framework for teams for approaching accessibility.