Ben Moss
Ben Moss has designed and coded work for award-winning startups, and global names including IBM, UBS, and the FBI. When he’s not in front of a screen he’s probably out trail-running.
Interview: Ash Hewson talks Affinity Photo
Last week, Serif launched its bitmap editor Affinity Photo, and the response from the design community has been…
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Serif releases Affinity Photo
Today, Serif launches Affinity Photo, the highly anticipated companion app to 2014’s Affinity Designer. Whilst Affinity…
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Google unveils Material Design Lite
Yesterday Google announced the release of Material Design Lite. Not, as the name might imply, a streamlined version of…
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Facebook reveals new logo
Yesterday, Christophe Tauziet, a product designer at Facebook, shared a shot of the new Facebook logo.
Reportedly…
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Adobe releases major Creative Cloud update
Adobe have just rolled out a major update to their Creative Cloud suite of design tools. In addition to the usual bug…
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Safari 9: Everything web designers need to know now
Yesterday’s keynote at the Apple WWDC featured two new OS. The new MacOS is named El Capitan after a rock formation in…
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Aol.com redesigns mobile-first
Very few of the major players from the Web’s early days are still with us. Business models that thrived in the days of…
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How to successfully combine typefaces
Combining typefaces is one of the most challenging skills for a designer to master. Setting two fonts together in the…
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Designing patterns: the biggest web trend of 2015 so far
2015 has inherited a lot of trends from previous years, there’s been a steady evolution of ideas — Flat Design into…
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Microsoft Edge: What designers need to know
This week Microsoft introduced its new browser, Edge, the project that had formerly been known as Project…
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Is Neue Haas Unica the perfect grotesk for the Web?
This week, the Web went giddy at the knees over the release of Monotype’s Neue Haas Unica. The typeface is a redesign…
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Discovery of 2nd web has wide-ranging consequences for net neutrality
In the last year there’s been an increasingly passionate debate over the possibility of a two-tier internet. However,…
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The future of responsive web design
It’s almost incomprehensible in 2015 to build a website that isn’t responsive. The technique has developed to the point…
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Is it time to embrace responsive branding?
Consistency, we’re taught, is the hallmark of quality. Whether it’s in copywriting or color, layout or lettering,…
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5 rules for choosing the perfect web typeface
Selecting a typeface for a project is a defining moment. Occasionally you’ll be looking to add personality to a design,…
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7 simple rules for mobile typography
You’ve probably heard that good typography is invisible, but it’s more accurate to say that good typography makes the…
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How to perfect your websites with marginal gains
A little over a decade ago, British competitive cycling was nowhere. With a couple of notable exceptions — Tom Simpson…
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Are design patterns destroying web design?
Design patterns are common solutions to common problems. When you add a slider to a homepage you’re employing a design…
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