Carrie Cousins
Carrie Cousins is a freelance writer with more than 10 years of experience in the communications industry, including writing for print and online publications, and design and editing. You can connect with Carrie on Twitter @carriecousins.
What’s New for Designers, June 2017
There’s a mix of function and fun in new design and development tools this month. From adding emojis to links, to fonts…
3 Essential Design Trends, June 2017
Sometimes a simple design tweak can move your website design from ordinary to trendy. Each of this month’s trends is…
7 Ways to Design at Lightning Speed (and Still Be Good)
Some of the world’s best designers – and even the best designers where you work – all have something in common: Many of…
What’s New for Designers, May 2017
This month’s collection of new tools has a theme – they are mostly time-savers. Many of these elements are small in…
Essential Design Trends, May 2017
Making a good first impression is a vital part of website design. The homepage is often the first experience a user has…
7 Steps to a Flawless Design Review
The design review can be one of the most stressful milestones in any website project. While feedback is a valuable part…
What’s New for Designers, April 2017
From new tools to code snippets to typefaces that will make your design life better, this month’s design newbies are a…
Essential Design Trends, April 2017
It’s all about geometry. The trend is design right now centers around interesting shapes and layers that combine to…
7 Ways to Tell a Great Story with Design
A website is more than just a place to hold information about your app, portfolio or products. It should tell a story…
What’s New for Designers, March 2017
From new tools to code snippets to typefaces that will make your design life better, this month’s design newbies are a…
7 Secrets for Designing Great Forms
Almost every website design includes some type of form. From simple email address collection to sign up for a…
Essential design trends, March 2017
Here’s the point of emphasis…
That’s the theme this month. This collection of trends focuses on adding emphasis to the…
What’s new for designers, February 2017
Everywhere you look there are new releases, and new tools popping up, but how do you know which elements are worth your…
Essential design trends, February 2017
An interesting visual presence above the scroll is the first impression a user gets of a website. Whether that user…
8 reasons 80s flair will rule design in 2017
Trends come and go in waves. The latest wave when it comes to web design is totally 1980s.
From bright color to flat…
8 simple steps to better icon design
Icons are everywhere. From app icons on home screens to graphic representations that lead users through a design, icon…
What’s new for designers, January 2017
New design tools are like new toys. You are probably always looking for elements to make your life easier. Here we have…
Essential design trends, January 2017
New year, new design trends. One of the great things about web design is that it is constantly evolving. You can find…
