Users Prefer Tappable Stories On The Mobile Web

The power of full-screen visuals.

History of grids

From the printing press to modern web design.

Font Pairings

Try font pairings and see how they look in your project.

The UX Writing Library

All you need to follow, read or join as a UX writer.

Adobe Brings Fonts to iOS in Creative Cloud Mobile

All fonts within Creative Cloud can now be used on iOS 13.1.

Introducing the Design Circle

A new collective of leading voices in the design industry.

Adobe is developing Illustrator for iPad to be released in 2020

Vector graphics, simplified for the tablet.

November 2019 Release of Adobe XD

Coediting, document history, component states, and more.

Adobe and Twitter are designing a system for permanently attaching artists’ names to pictures

It’s called the Content Authenticity Initiative.

52 UX Cards to Discover Cognitive Biases

How cognitive biases might influence people’s behaviour.

Preloading fonts: when does it make sense?

Pros and cons of different options.

“As designers, our primary role is to overthink a design solution before simplifying it.”

Mobile Dark Patterns

Make sure you’re keeping your ethical obligations in mind.

Google in 2020

From everyone’s search engine to everyone’s competitor.

“The longer I work in design, the more confident I become in my certainty that I know almost nothing.”

Minimap

A Sketch plugin to navigate large pages with ease.

Expect change in your design career. Choose growth.

How you can future-proof yourself.

Dynamic Typographic Systems, Modern CSS & Variable Fonts

Where we are and where we are going to.

Color & Contrast Picker

A tool to explore accessible color spaces.

Diez

An open-source framework for creating design languages.

Curious Listening

6 ways to get the most out of UX interviews.

SVG Favicons

Chrome now offers basic support for SVG favicons.

The Department of Useless Images

When a picture is a thousand words of crap.

Global Design Survey

Designer salaries, career trends, and what’s next.

‎Moodboard

An app to create photo collages with images and text.

Framer: Web Beta

The popular interactive design tool is coming to the web.

Opening up the data behind your design systems

Figma introduces Design System Analytics.

CrUX.RUN

A fast mirror of the Chrome User Experience report database.

Passwords Are a Design Problem

Password managers can help but huge gaps remain.

Types of Content Hubs: 5 Approaches & 30+ Examples

How to handle topic clusters, content hubs, and pillar pages.

Loom

A new and playful way to create hand-drawn animation.

Angle

1,000 vector and 3D device mockups for Sketch, Figma and XD.

Samsa

A web app that visualizes how variable fonts work.

Who Can Use

Find out who can use your color combination.

Design APIs: The Evolution of Design Systems

Design systems are beginning to look and work like APIs.

illlustrations

Open source illustrations for your design projects.

Scaling SVG Elements

Instead of thinking of SVGs as images, let’s change our mindset.

Storybook for design

How to integrate your favorite design tools with the development environment.

Happy Hues

Curated color palettes in action.

Epic Black Friday

Best deals for designers and developers.

Can you really convey luxury through digital product design?

How we can do it.

Print to CSS

Magazine layouts recreated with CSS Grid.

Vectornator

All-in-one graphic design tool for Mac.

Wireframer

Flawless SVG text for your wireframes.

Animated SVG favicons

What can already be done in which browser.

WebGLStudio.js

A full open-source 3D graphics editor in the browser.

Future Accessibility Guidelines

For people who can’t wait to read them.

“Don’t launch something too pretty. It may lead you to thinking you have product-market fit but you may actually just have design-designers fit.”

The Deep Sea

An interactive visualization of the ocean’s deepness.

Sketch in 2020

What’s next for the popular digital design toolkit.

“Apps are just spicy websites.”

Animated CSS Background Generator

Customizable pure CSS animated backgrounds.

The State of UX in 2020

What our industry is thinking, writing, and talking about.

2019 Design Tools Survey

Over 3,000 designers shared their toolkits.

Design more, resize less, with Auto Layout

Figma now lets you create dynamic designs.

Creepyface

A Javascript library to make faces alive for resumes or team sites.

Smooth Shadow Generator

Control the progression of values via easing curves.

Leonardo

Generate colors based on a desired contrast ratio.

Figma Mobile Upload

Snap photos with any phone and send them to Figma.

Introducing Unsplash for Brands

How the popular photo community aims to make money.

Fonts Ninja

Try fonts in your designs without buying them.

Pizdata

Virtual designers on demand, tasks done in 24 hours.

Rich docs with Storybook MDX

The UI component development tool now with fully custom docs.

“It’s easy to mistake aesthetic quality for product quality. Many of the prettiest apps of the last decade no longer exist.”

Microbrowsers Are Everywhere

How you can unleash the hidden power of website previews.

'The Decade of Design'

How the last 10 years transformed design’s role in tech.

VisBug v0.2.21 released today

What’s new in the ‘FireBug for designers’.

Website Audit Checklist

Check your website for formatting, performance, accessibility, and security.

55 of the most actionable ways to scale design

Advice from design leaders in a summary format.

The SQL Murder Mystery

Learn the structured query language by solving a crime.

A Designer’s Guide to the Terminal

Learn how to use the terminal in a short amount of time.

Visualizing Every Pantone Color of the Year

22 Colors From 2000-2020

All I Font for Christmas

A holiday calendar filled with typographic surprises.

Generative Placeholders

Use generative art as your image placeholders.

Tools for designing good-looking accessible interfaces

Online checkers/generators and Figma plugins.

The digital handbook for agency people

What you need to know from A to Z.

Happy New Year!

Let’s create greeting cards with the Space Type Generator.

Storybook Docs for new frameworks

Best practice docs for Vue, Angular, Web components, and Ember.

Gimlet X-Ray Font

A variable font that exposes how a variable font works.

Re-Imagining The Bottom Navigation Bar

How we can deal with the increase in device diversity.

“Don’t underestimate the ‘delight’ in making software that’s basic, fast, and actually solves someone’s problem.”

What is the future of product design in the 2020s?

Design leaders share their predictions.

Canvas Cards

A gallery of card designs created with JavaScript canvas.

“Design Leaders need to act less like conductors of craft and more like business leaders that apply craft as a powerful tool to reach business objectives.”

“It doesn’t matter what design tool you use if it gets the job done.”

All Design Conferences

A list of design and frontend conferences around the world.

Color stuck?

Try the color palette finding technique graphic designers love.

Hamburger Heaven

The not so universal meaning of unlabeled icons.

7 UI trends to watch in 2020

There’s plenty of new stuff to be excited about.

calcolor

A new way to manage digital colors: calculate colors, share palettes.

Design’s Unsexy Middle Bits

Design Thinking is not a synonym for UX/Digital Product Design.

Storybook 5.3

Build production design systems faster.

Defining ‘Toast’ Messages

How to deal with the oddly named design pattern.

Design System Checklist

Helps you plan, build and grow your design system.

Font licensing is ill, please help heal it

Why font licenses based on page views make no sense.

The Design Squiggle

A simple illustration of the design process, in use since 2002.

Making painless guest wifi with QR codes

How to use QR codes to share wifi credentials.

The New Generation of Performance Metrics for Better User Experience

Calibre’s user centric performance metrics.

Designing your digital product like a concept car

What we can learn from the automotive industry.

Dark Isn’t Just a Mode

Dark mode for UX designers, beyond trends.