From dev tools to productivity to a little bit of fun with sudoku, this month’s collection of new tools is packed with something for everyone. Here’s what new for designers this month. May’s Top Picks Am I FLoCed? Am I FLoCed?[1] Is a tool to see if you are part of a Google Chrome origin trial. It tests a new tracking feature called Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC). According to Google, the trial currently affects 0.5% of users in selected...
Every day design fans submit incredible industry stories to our sister-site, Webdesigner News[1]. Our colleagues sift through it, selecting the very best stories from the design, UX, tech, and development worlds and posting them live on the site. The best way to keep up with the most important stories for web professionals is to subscribe to Webdesigner News or check out the site regularly. However, in case you missed a day this week, here’s a handy compilation...
YouTube is the Web’s biggest video channel. Hundreds of hours of video are uploaded to the service every minute. The volume of data it stores and streams is beyond comprehension. Owned by Google, YouTube has been central to our lives online in such a big way, that it’s almost unbelievable that it’s been with us for less than two decades. If you’ve ever wondered just how big it is, which videos broke its records, or how many users...
WordPress powers nearly 40% of all websites, thanks to its commitment to making publication possible for everyone, for free. Combined with premium plugins and themes, it’s possibly the ultimate tool for building attractive, unique, and feature-rich websites without any coding or design experience. However, you do pay the price for this experience, with WordPress and its third-party products not always being built for performance – whether it’s page loading times or SEO. Image optimization is a particularly big...
Sometimes you just don’t give a damn anymore. Possibly the only thing worse than designer’s block is designer’s apathy: that sinking feeling you get when you realize that you just don’t care about this particular piece of work anymore is disheartening. The dread of going back to it is paralyzing. There are many reasons you can stop caring about your work. Maybe you’ve just done the same thing too many times in a row. Maybe your client is...
Spring and fresh designs are in the air. This month, it’s obvious that designers are feeling creative with new and interesting concepts that range from a new style for cards, homepage experimentation with multiple entry points or calls to action, and risky typography options. Here’s what’s trending in design this month. 1. “Flat” Cards Card-style design elements that allow users to click through to other content aren’t new, but the design of these cards is fresh and interesting. Rather than...
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Every day design fans submit incredible industry stories to our sister-site, Webdesigner News. Our colleagues sift through it, selecting the very best stories from the design, UX, tech, and development worlds and posting them live on the site. The best way to keep up with the most important stories for web professionals is to subscribe […] The post Popular Design News of the Week: April 26, 2021 – May 2, 2021 first appeared...
We’re rounding up the week with a fun quiz for anyone who loves fonts. You’ve seen these typefaces used in hundreds of designs — from presidential campaigns, to corporate branding — but do you know who crafted those curves? We’ll start off with an easy one: Do you know who designed Futura?Powered by WPeMatico...
This week, in a move like something from a particularly eventful episode of The Office, popular project management app company Basecamp banned political and societal discussion in the company’s internal communications. In a post[1] that has been revised for “clarification,” the company’s co-founder Jason Fried listed six rules for employees: No societal or political discussions at work; No more ‘paternalistic’ benefits; No more committees; No more lingering on past decisions; No more 360 reviews; No forgetting what...
Landing pages are central to successful marketing campaigns; they allow you to target particular customers with particular solutions to particular problems. It’s easy to confuse what a landing page is because users “land” on many pages. When we talk about landing pages, we mean a page that is entirely dedicated to a particular type of customer. In fact, if we could create a unique landing page for each individual user, that would be awesome. You might think your...