Alex Walker

Animation is a part of a UI designer's job. Here are 9 free animation libraries we think deliver the most power for the smallest file size, while being relatively easy to use for reasonably code-savvy designers that aren't full-blown developers.

Our CSSBattle Code Challenge requires some 'outside the square' CSS thinking. Here are four tips to get you started on the right track.

SitePoint's Code Challenge #2 is a battle of CSS wits. We're partnering with CSSBattles.dev and asking you to recreate the SitePoint Logo in HTML and CSS - oh and in the fewest possible characters too.

We've got CSS, SVG, canvas and JavaScript solutions to Code Challenge #1. Now it's time to pick a winner for the $200 Amazon Voucher.

The user interfaces we see in popular culture are often more fun than ones we build at work. Here's a code challenge to show us how you'd build your own.

Product mockups are used to showcase web/app designs in a device frame, but can we accomplish this without Photoshop? Yes, and today, Alex shows us how!

Daniel and Alex list the best design tools and resources featured on Product Hunt in August 2017. You really don't want to miss out on these!

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Though SVG Patterns aren't super widely understood, they offer a lot of really interesting design options – once you get your head around them.

Lots of companies talk about 'design sprints', but are we all talking about the same thing? Jake Knapp – the man who documented it – has some ideas on that.

Getting paid for your design talents in equity is romantic – but rarely actually pays off. But what if you happened to design the Facebook logo?

True North Design Podcast: Ben Newton talks to the Atlassian Design Team about how design – and the teams behind it – can successfully scale.

Finch.io is a new visual approach to finding and fixing bugs in your web projects. We take a test-drive of the beta to see what the fuss is about.

SVG might be a vector format, but it has some amazingly powerful pixel-based tricks up its sleeve. Follow Alex's journey – if you dare.

GIFs are the jokers of the web image formats – usually funny and playful. But can they be turned into a dangerous weapon in the right situation?

Good design comes down to 3 or 4 fairly simple decisions at the beginning of a project – and then just carrying them through.

Vertical rhythm is often worshipped or ignored. But perhaps its at its most useful when we treat it as a trusted advisor to our layouts.

Often the key to understanding complex things is to understand their simpler parts first. SnappySnippet is a tool that can help you with that.

We design features with the idea that they are helping our users – but sometimes these same features can be damaging to users with different needs.

Every year your workflow changes. For me, 2016 was the year when the Chrome App arrived as a serious web/UI design option.

We all think carefully about choosing a color, but – as Heider and Simmel show – the way an object moves can have a profound impact on how we feel about it.

Cinemagraphs are like the snow globes of the web – simple yet strangely mesmerizing. Here's how to use them in your web design.

While web designers have more typography choice than ever before, arguably our tools haven't caught up.Type Nugget hopes to fill the gap.

Visual prototyping tools are fast but lack the flexibility of hand-coded HTML prototypes. Why not both? Pingendo is a visual tool based on Bootstrap 4. 

We like to imagine that our morals and ethics are set in granite, but the reality is they are much more fluid over a 24 period. Can you design for that?

Research shows that looking at faces changes the way we think. Can you use this knowledge to trigger empathy in your users?

As 'web people', we talk a lot about 'capturing customers', but not so much about what to do with them when we succeed. We can learn a lot from airlines.

The Trolley Problem is one of the great 'thought experiments' in ethics. But it's a thought experiment that's about to play out in the real world.

'Push button' image filters have developed a bad reputation with design professionals. But perhaps a new image filter called Prisma can change their minds.

We'd all played with computers for years but SitePoint's Hack Day gave us a chance to make electronics with our first IoT project.