Design

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

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.

Want to lose users? Miss out on sales? No? Learn seven easy ways to make sure the wording on your app isn't sending users and profits away!

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 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.

Without design handoff, devs are forced to make guesses that can result in mistakes and bad UX. Daniel Schwarz looks at the best design handoff tools currently available.

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.

Mads Soegaard introduces customer journey maps, explaining how to measure customer engagement, how much customers feel they’re in a relationship with your product, business or brand, and the best tools for getting the job done.

Daniel Schwarz introduces wireframing — a design exercise that can radically improve user experience — and looks at the best wireframing tools.

Delivering a speedy UX isn't all about code and servers – it's about how things feel.  Chris shows you how to use 'skeleton screens' to speed up your UX. 

Joe Natoli looks behind the scenes to discover the real cause behind most UX issues, finding that it's not lack of staff, awareness or expertise, but something a whole lot deeper: misalignment of individual intent — personal, organizational and political. Here's what you can do about it.

Daniel Schwarz shows how the Location feature of Google Analytics can be used to spot UX problems that may be related to culture or regional issues.

Daniel explains the difference between descriptive and diagnostic analytics, and how diagnostic analytics needs to inform descriptive analytics.

David Attard covers the KPIs every designer needs to know about, and how to measure them to gain insights into the behavior of the users that visit it.

Daniel Schwarz discusses the mindset required to understand the needs of your users, and five pitfalls to avoid when interpreting analytics data.

In this article, Callum Hopkins provides an introduction to grid systems, explaining what they are, their purpose, and some of the theory behind them.