Design & UX

Daniel Schwarz looks at the factors you need to consider when choosing stock photography that increases conversions.

James George lets us in on his 7 most-favorite Chrome extensions for designers, including a new design app called Gravit that works solely in the browser!

Duotones, Muted Black & White, Targeted Blur Effect, and more. Gabrielle has four fresh Photoshop styles to spice up to your repetoire.

Alec McGuffey looks at four types of design education, and helps you figure out which one is the best fit for you.

For all its sci-fi modernism, Star Wars used a lot of classic methods. Nadya has extracted 7 sure-fire design hacks that you can apply to your projects.

Daniel Schwarz discusses UX writing, why it's important for designers to be excellent writers, and how punctuation can make copy look and sound appealing.

This is a section from a 500 year old woodcut from perhaps the 'Andy Warhol of woodcut artists' - Albrecht Dürer. Woodcut is an old printing technique where the image is hand...

Giannis Konstantinidis lists some great Material Design CSS frameworks and compares them to make it easier for you to choose what best fits your needs.

Web and interface designers are becoming a dime a dozen, Tobi explains what great designers do to stand out from the crowd.

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

SVG is a powerful format but you need to make good decisions to get great results. Ivalyo walks you through exporting SVG in Adobe Illustrator.

Most of us have heard of it, but what is SVG and precisely makes it different from pixel graphics? And is there any reason you should care?

Craig Buckler takes a renewed look at why, in 2017, some users might disable JavaScript and asks if progressive enhancement is still worth the effort.

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.

A cheatsheet of the fonts and colors used by Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Messenger, Snapchat, Instagram and Pinterest, with links to brand asset info.

99designs is a marketplace for finding the best design talent, but did you know that you can curate your own on-call team of super-designers? Here's how.