Layout

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.

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

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

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. 

Human beings are sensitive to color. We process it without us even realizing, and we can’t help noticing differences. This is useful in form design.

Human beings see things that are close to each other as being related. Conversely, things that are not related usually have some space between them.

Create a straight, unobstructed, vertical path to completion. Now it's faster for your form to be filled out, and it looks neater and simpler too.

The following is a short extract from our book, Jump Start Adobe XD, written by Daniel Schwarz, a highly practical tutorial.

In this article, we'll look at some of the uses for prototypes -- and also some of the things that you shouldn't use prototypes for.

Smart guides illustrate how objects align to one another — they can display the distance between layers, or whether a layer has snapped to another.

Boachie Pius talks about analysis paralysis and three of the most overlooked website usability optimizations, and shows us how to fix them.

John Stevens talks about how Amazon is breaking records when it comes to conversions, and what you can do about your own UX to mirror their success.

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!

Suzanne explains the user psychology behind nostalgia and how we can utilize nostalgia marketing in web design for higher conversions.

It's easy to think of AI as the stuff of abstract computer science, but, increasingly, we're beginning to seeing Artificial Intelligence in UX design.

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.

Have you ever been scrolling when you realized you didn't read anything in the past 10 seconds? That's 'Zombie Scrolling'! Petras can save you.

Our brains are amazing instruments – but they're not perfect. Tomas shows you how to use cognitive biases to help your design, rather than undermining it.

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.

Ada Ivanoff shows 10 of her favorite Free UI Templates for Android Lollipop and iOS 8 application design.

Abbas Rajani shows us how to offer users a better mobile UX by optimizing the layout and content of long-scrolling mobile websites.

We've waited and improvised, but now the wait is over. Sketch now offers responsive design features, but how does it compare to the Auto Layout Plugin?

Gabrielle Gosha reveals which web design trends you need to try in 2017, including meganavs, overlapping content and neutral tones.

SVG is more important to web design than ever before. Today we no longer need to leave our web browsers to create it. Ada looks at the options.

Development teams are getting larger and collaboration never more challenging. Can Sketch and Invision help?

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.

The GIF format has been around for so long that sometimes it's easy to overlook its usefulness. Tim wants you to reconsider the power of GIFs and CSS.