Forms in Framer

The popular no-code design tool now includes form creation.

9 ideas about design

Ideas to make your next project more interesting.

Free Design Stuff

Curated design resources for personal and commercial use.

Spectrum

A collection of vector shapes to spice up your designs.

A plea for the lost practice of information architecture

Without IA, designs can turn into confusing labyrinths.

Affinity’s creative suite is now free for six months

The Adobe-rivaling offer includes Affinity Designer, Photo, and Publisher.

Lummi

Searchable and customizable images made by AI creators.

Checking and documenting accessibility in mockups

Accessibility documentation in Figma (or similar design tools).

Affinity Photo vs. Photoshop

Can Affinity Photo replace Photoshop in your toolset?

Dark patterns in online subscription services

The majority of the examined services trick users.

Daminik

An open-source digital asset manager with built-in CDN.

Not Boring Sound Kit

A set of sounds designed for user interfaces.

Why designers need to be more like gardeners

And how it would benefit both people and the planet.

What even is my role anymore?

The future of the interaction designer role.

The 2024 UX Researcher Salary Report

What are fair and competitive salaries in various countries?

Your survey is your user experience

Make sure your survey doesn’t harm your site’s UX.

2024 Logo Trend Report

Logos are getting reimagined through experimentation.

Mazeletter

Anything but an ordinary pattern generator.

Onlook

An open-source, local-first Webflow alternative.

High UX salaries have held steady for 26 years

But the gap between UX juniors/seniors has grown.

Why great design thrives on personal relationships

“It’s the human touch that truly makes design great.”

Never hide your email unsubscribe link

Make opting out easy and avoid deliverability risks.

Button Stealer

Collect buttons from the websites you visit one by one.

Japanese web design: weird, but it works

A look behind Japan’s cluttered and vintage user interfaces.

The death of Lorem Ipsum

“There’s no excuses for Lorem Ipsum no more.”

Designing depth

How can we capture depth and story in a 2D frame?

Sendune Email Designer

A simple and easy-to-use HTML/CSS email creator.

Designing for forgiveness

How to create error-tolerant user interfaces.

Alternative text in action

How to use alternative text in different scenarios.

Losing is part of being a designer

“It takes the pressure off and you do better.”

Fediverse Iconography

Consistent vector icons for all Fediverse projects.

One Million Screenshots

Explore the World Wide Web by zooming into it.

Public Work

An immersive search engine for public domain visuals.

The sustainable web design checklist

Suggestions for creating eco-friendly websites (PDF).

The ethical minefield of generative AI

“Like any tool, you have to use it responsibly.”

Clean + Format

A UX pattern for high-quality user input fields.

Rage clicks are microdoses of pure horror

“Both online and offline, another world is possible.”

Glossary UX deliverables

Key terms and concepts related to UX deliverables.

Design patterns and WCAG

The ARIA design patterns are advisory, not mandatory.

Figma and the cost of collaboration

“It took 5 years of loving Figma and 30 days of decline into distrust.”

Choose the right image format

An up-to-date guide on what you need to consider.

Stop inventing product problems

“Forget the product, focus on the customer.”

Avaaatars

A collection of customizable avatars for your project.

The benefits of learning programming as a designer

How coding skills can strengthen your design choices.

Alternatives to pure black for text/backgrounds

Twenty-two shades of gray for modern UI design.

Framer vs. Webflow

The ins and outs of the popular no-code website builders.

Using the serial position effect in UX design

How to take users’ short-term memory into account.

Screen Ruler

Measure elements, distances, and spaces on the web.

From role playing games to UX

How progress indicators affect user engagement.

Mastering typography in logo design

“Choosing the right typeface for a logo goes beyond personal taste.”

The design process selection matrix

What if we stop debating THE design/development process?

Design Playlists

What designers are listening to while they work.

It might be worth converting that GIF

It makes sense to move to (animated) WebPs.

Do we really need icon bounding boxes?

Ways to address icon inconsistencies in system design.

8 Figma tips for UI3

What to expect from the design tool’s redesigned interface.

The monospace web

What if we used only monospaced fonts in web design?

Slop is good

“The generative AI slop is going to be a great thing for the open web.”

Polotno Studio

A design editor for quickly mixing text, images, and more.

Departure Mono

A font for data, code, documentation, and pixel/ASCII art.

Where AI enhances UX design, and where it doesn’t

Drawing the line between AI and human creativity.

A note on estimated reading times

“They aren’t that useful, at least not in the way people think.”

Before Midjourney, there was NightCafe

The wild story of one of oldest generative AI web spaces.

Canva says AI features justify the 300% price hike

Some of their subscribers can expect much higher prices.

Digital product design vs. web design

How usage frequency impacts our design approach.

The Figma auto-layout dilemma

To use or not to use,  that is the question.

Information architecture first principles

What IA makes unique among other design disciplines.

The story of Figma

Living long enough as a hero to become a villain?

Every webpage deserves to be a place

What happens when blog users’ cursors meet online?

Icon IQ

Test your digital icon knowledge with a quiz.

Take off your glasses

A proven way to test the fundamentals of your design.

In search of a clutter metric for websites

How do we quantify the perception of website clutter?

Why anticipatory design isn’t working for businesses

Can we fulfill user needs before they are even articulated?

Frame0

A Balsamiq-like design tool to sketch UI ideas.

Reducing UX debt (or die trying)

Ways to cut debt and free up time for consistent design.

UX needs more punk

Disrupting the status quo in design.

SVG texture variations

A collection of subtle textures generated with SVG filters.

The fallacy of federated design systems

“Don’t choose federated. Instead, add federated. Gradually.”

Youform

An affordable form builder that challenges Typeform.

Introduction to XR accessibility

Key considerations for building inclusive XR experiences.

“Telling designers they shouldn’t use high-fidelity designs early in the exploration process can be the equivalent of telling an artist they shouldn’t use paint and instead only start with rough pencil sketches.”

Don’t rely on Google Fonts for hosting

“If you want consistency, self-host your fonts.”

The over-confetti-ing of digital experiences

How can we make surprises and delights special?

Webzibition

Freshly hand-picked websites for your inspiration.

Is your UX copy culturally sensitive?

A guide to crafting culturally sensitive UX content.

Button group UI design

The art of designing user-friendly button groups.

The rise of the design engineer

Where they come in, and why they’re so valuable.

Growth design

The role of growth designers in driving business success.

Simultaneous contrast

How you can make your colors appear more vibrant.

Embracing introversion in UX

The power of introversion in UX research and design.

Pop icons

The bold and joyful style makes your project pop.

Creative menu patterns and animations

Inspiring design examples, from minimal to playful.

Managing dangerous actions in interfaces

Ways to prevent users from making mistakes.

Weird Web October

A challenge to create a website every day of October.

Data whisperers, Pinocchios, and sentient design

From content artifacts to new experience paradigms.

Figma’s approach to designing UI3

What’s new in the design tool’s interface and what’s next.

A UX designer guide to prompt

How humans and machines can understand each other.

How bottom-up design enhances site accessibility

Towards a more equitable website and new niches.

Sneaking

The deceptive UX pattern you never saw coming.

PWA icons for all platforms/devices

Progressive Web Apps require a set of three icons.

Icon usability

When and how to evaluate digital icons.