Design

Looking for UI design inspiration? Rather than adding a new color or changing a font, have you thought about your textures?

Setting up a new typography system is always a complicated task with literally hundreds of tweakable variables. The best way to save your sanity is a design system that can answers most of those little questions.

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

How can the lifecycle of the humble cicada help you to make better seamless tile backgrounds? It will all make sense soon...

Lottie animation is the newest and most effective way to animate websites. Learn why Lottie with BeTheme creates better user experiences.

A color palette is one of the most important aspects of a design system. Designers can use them to create a visual hierarchy, a unified look and feel, and evoke emotions.

Understanding user experience is crucial for successful business. Learn how user journey maps help to optimize your products and services.

Need to remove an image background? Learn six ways to remove a background in Photoshop, depending on the kind of image you're working with.

Too many Figma plugins to choose from? Supercharge your design workflow with our picks for the best Figma plugins.

Handing off designs to developers has a troubled history. Learn about 5 excellent apps that have revolutionized the design handoff process.

Take your wireframes and mockups to the next level by creating interactive FIgma prototypes that are navigable and animated. Here's how!

Web design trends come and go. 2020 was no exception. Web designers will see some familiar trends replaced by safer and more dependable design choices.

Wireframes are important for ensuring good UX. Learn how to use Figma to figure out the best UX design workflow for your layout.

You submit a form—but get no feedback. Wha? Did it submit? Learn how to make sure your UI elements provide feedback to users—so that you don't lose them!

Though browsers are arguably more reliable than they've ever been, we still can't forget about cross-browser testing tools. Here are 7 top options for you.

Michiel Mulders explains the meaning of positive reinforcement in terms of UX, and offers practical tips for improving the experience of website visitors.

Michiel introduces five best practices you can use to provide a more learnable interface to your users, from consistency to familiarity and storification.

We look at seven WordPress themes covering a wide range of niches that provide the perfect launching pad for designing your own, unique portfolio sites.

Learn why SVG is superior to pixel graphics in terms of scalability, responsiveness, interactivity, programmability, performance, and accessibility.

Flipsnack is a design/layout tool similar to InDesign and Affinity Publisher that helps you easily create professional layouts online.

A cheatsheet of the fonts and colors used by Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Messenger, Snapchat, Whatsapp and YouTube, with links to official brand assets.

Lucero del Alba walks through how to restyle the Django admin interface to match the look and feel of the rest of your site, with the help of Bootstrap.

Daniel Schwarz offers tips on designing for screen readers, and walks through how Adobe XD CC’s design handoff and voice prototyping features help with this.

Gal Shachar digs into all the things you can do to advance your design career, from marketing yourself, building a brand, experimenting, and launching a side business, to putting your name and work out there for people to find.

Gal Shachar introduces Bannersnack, an online, drag-and-drop interface that lets you design banner ads quickly and efficiently, saving time and money.

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.

Dave Kearney compares the top 15 prototyping tools disrupting the design tool market today, with video overviews of each one.

Jodie Moule tells the story of how she came to launch her successful Cook app, and how user research was all-important in making it the best app it could be.

Amanda Stockwell explains Design Thinking, Lean UX, and Agile, and how to implement elements of each for your team. Each approach is meant to solve a particular problem, and elements of each may be useful, so you’ll have to find what works for your team.

There were 5 Jacksons and 5 gold rings but Clark Wimberly has 5 golden principles that guide his product design. Read them. Recite them. Remember them well.