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How to Keep Designing When Tragedy Strikes

Tragedy strikes from nowhere, and it’s devastating both emotionally, and financially. It might be a motorcycle accident…

10 Best WordPress Plugins for Digital Marketing

Currently somewhere in the region of 34% of websites are built with WordPress, it’s the most utilized CMS (Content…

What Does 5G Mean for Web Designers?

As we head into 2020, everyone is talking about 5G. The newest generation of mobile connectivity has some exciting…

The Latest Research for Web Designers, January 2020

One of the most powerful tools we have in web design is consumer and industry data. It’s like a gauge that tells us…

Can Best Practice Replace Design Research?

Tempting it may be to skip the consultation process, but a ‘first principles’ approach is not going to cut it with the…

Understand Your Users with positionstack

One of the best things about the Internet is that it (mostly) doesn’t care where you are. The person you’re interacting…

How Many Types of X Acronym Are There? And Does It Matter?

One of the problems with coining a term like “user experience” or its acronym counterpart “UX” is that it opens up the…

Take Off With aviationstack’s Real-Time Flight API

In our increasingly global world, people travel by airplane…a lot. With rapid turnaround times, unpredictable weather,…

UX For Enterprise: 3 Biggest Challenges (and How to Tackle Them)

When was the last time you created the perfect UX design for an enterprise application? For most (if not all) of us,…

Design from the Beach: How to Work and Travel

Are you experiencing full wanderlust with a side order of burnout in the first week of the new year? Has the…

The Art of Persuasion: How to Handle Clients With Mad Ideas

Crazy, impractical, out-of-budget suggestions are a fact of life for web designers everywhere. A deeper understanding…

Should a Web Page Have a Single CTA?

Does adding multiple CTAs to your web pages just confuse your users? That’s a heavily debated question in the digital…

19 Best Portfolios of 2019

Every month we roundup the best new portfolios released in the previous four weeks. This month we’re looking back at…

Less is (Almost) Definitely More: An Introduction to Hick’s Law for Web Designers

Hick’s Law describes how the number of choices you present to people affects the time it takes them to respond. This…

50 Best Websites of 2019

Every month we roundup the freshest website designs released on the web in the previous four weeks. This month is a…

How to Boost Customer Engagement with Video Marketing

Simply defined, customer engagement is when a customer interacts with a brand through social media, mobile devices, or…

Is The F-Pattern Still Relevant in Web Design?

It’s always good to have a set of guidelines to follow when designing a website — especially if you have little to no…

Pantone Announces its Color of 2020

Each year, at this time, Pantone nominates a color — or colors, in the case of 2016 — to represent humanity’s hopes and…