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.

Kolormark

The color naming platform: let’s give colors beautiful names.

“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.

What Does 5G Mean for Web Designers?

How you can prepare for the 5th generation of mobile browsing.

The Risks of Imitating Designs

Even from successful companies.

DSKO

Discover creative people and brands.

Standards for Writing Accessibly

What to keep in mind when writing to meet WCAG2 standards.

“Great designers are never satisfied with anything. That’s their biggest asset and their most annoying feature.”

Framer: Beta

A fresh interface for the interactive design tool.

“No design tool solves the need for proper communication. It’s an underestimated design skill.”

3D Folding Layout Technique for HTML Elements

Fold illusion with endless possibilities.

Introducing Cloud Inspector: free developer handoff in the browser

What’s coming in Sketch Cloud.

Play

Design and build better products, all on your mobile device.

Motion

Simple animated SVG icon editor with icon library.

Color Theft

Visualization of the most used colors of 50 famous artists.

Design Lint

Plugin for Figma to help you fix errors in your designs.

Maze + Figma

User testing tool meets interface design tool.

Undervaluing User Research is a Deadly Disease

Get out of the downward spiral of poorly-designed products.

The 20 Levers for Return on Design

Increase your influence as designer by creating more business value.

Design Trends Predictions for 2020 From Top Designers

What they have to say.

7 Principles of Icon Design

What to keep in mind when creating high-quality icons.

Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open

When input devices have a privacy policy.

“More designers should be founders—the quickest way to get a seat at the table is to build the table.”

Flow Fields

A technique to create a huge variety of interesting curves.

Neumorphism

Shadow generator, inspired by the new skeuomorphism trend.

YEStifications

How users engage with notification prompts across the web.

Large screen phones: a challenge for UX design

Let’s try to find a basic solution for the screen size problem.

Repper

Online generator to easily create eye-catching geometric patterns.

Variable fonts’ past, present and future

A talk with the creative director at type foundry Dalton Maag.

The Theory: A Semantic Color System

A new approach to colors with new opportunities.

The Origins of Famous Microinteractions

Fun stories and trivia.

Glitch Art Generator

Create and share beautiful gradient glitch art wallpapers.

One of my favourite accessibility testing tools: The Tab Key

What it will quickly tell you about your website.

On Design Thinking

Promise and limits of the popular problem solving method.

Google Fonts Analytics

Top trending Google Fonts with indication of total views in the wild.

The Design Graph

Answers to practical questions when implementing design systems.

Create Diagonal Layouts Like It's 2020

Let’s bring some dynamic to all the rectangular boxes.

Open Peeps

A hand-drawn illustration library to create scenes of people.

“So you’re tellin’ me a user centered this design?”

What Does A Foldable Web Actually Mean?

The impact of foldable devices on responsive web design.

Calculating ROI for Design Projects in 4 Steps

Prove the value of your design efforts by estimating return on investment.

FontGoggles

Font viewer to preview and compare various font formats.

Beautiful Dingbats’ Pattern Generator

Create seamless and repeatable patterns for your website.

Website of the Year 2019 Nominees

Nominees for the CSS Design Award 2019.

Iconset

Cross-platform SVG icon organizer for designers and developers.

Stop Using ‘Drop-down’

There are better terms that accurately describe what you want.

A Variable Fonts Primer

The what, why and how of Variable Fonts.

Unscreen

Online tool to automatically remove video backgrounds.

“A lot of designers are afraid to try new things because of criticism. But the greatest joys are from pursuing your passion and overcoming fear of feedback.”

The Performance Benefits of Variable Fonts

The impact of variable vs. standard fonts on web performance.

Utopia

Elegantly scale type and space without breakpoints.

Designing with Variable Fonts

Understand the power and flexibility of variable fonts.

“I want to go from being a designer who codes to being an engineer who designs.”

Web Accessibility Checklist

16 things to improve your website accessibility.

Glyphfinder

Character search for designers, developers and writers.

The world’s most innovative companies in design: 2020

Fast Company’s favorites.

CSS Mondrian

Piet Mondrian style art using CSS grid.

Introducing: A brand new Dribbble

The first complete redesign in the last ten years.

Automating the Boring Parts of Product Design

Speed up your design process with Figma Plugins.

The problem with snackbars and what to use instead

Let’s talk about alternatives.

The future of design tools

And why developers should care.

Why I Blur the Lines Between Prototype and Real Product

Designing for real-time experiences.

Photo Stream

Self hosted, easy to use, no tracking, just photos.

Animockup

Create animated mockups and share them as videos or animated GIFs.

Tools for Remote UX Workshops

What’s the best tool for your remote workshop?

Samsa: Variable Font Inspector

A web app that visualizes how variable fonts work.

Glass

A community-focused app for photographers.

Glimpse

Image editor based on GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program.

colors.lol

Color palettes with anything but ordinary descriptions.

What Should You Do When A Web Design Trend Becomes Too Popular?

What makes the most sense for your site.

How to create a remote usability test for fast, actionable insights

Guidelines and tips.

Remote Work for Design Teams

How design can thrive despite distance.