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Designing and selling themes can be a lucrative business, but there are plenty of pitfalls. Dan's guide will help you avoid the big traps.

Fontcloud is a tool designed to help you browse, choose and manage you fonts – and their licensing – through your browser. Roemie takes you on the tour.

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.

Trends are interesting, but more important is how these 2017 web design and UX trends boost conversions.

Sometimes small changes can make a big difference to your UX. Saad has 5 relatively simple ways you can improve your UX in a morning's work.

 Why are we afraid of safe things, and cheerfully cavalier about things that are actually dangerous? Science (and Jason) has some useful suggestions.

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

According to the Direct Marketing Association, you can expect an ROI of $38 for every $1 you spend on email marketing. Small tweaks can be big money.

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.

Often our goals and those of our user are in alignment – but not always. Sometimes you have a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other.

Designers can look at Analytics as tools for marketers and SEO people. Luke shows us how design is about understanding, and understanding is about data.

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.

Successful global brands can become so ubiquitous that we don't almost don't notice them. Andrei shows they have some valuable typography tips to teach us.

Adobe have finally offered a genuine competitor to Sketch. The big question is: Adobe XD or Sketch? Is the new kid on the block a real contender?

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.

The top right of screen is a difficult area of the screen to design for. Michaela shows you how to select the best images for your layout.

Watching an SVG image drawn onto screen is powerful effect. Ivaylo shows you how to create the 'Invisible Pen' Effect in SVG using Vivus.js

There's a lot of social buzz around 'Figma' , a new Browser-based UI Design tool. But is it a serious alternative? We look at Figma for Sketch Designers

Jan Losert has spent 4 years refining his refining his design product dashboard design – now he's ready to share his insights and secrets. Read on.

There are few things more disconcerting than getting legal notice from seemingly nowhere. But if you receive a cease and desist letter, Adam has your back.

Micro-interactions are subtle “moments” centered around accomplishing a single task. Daniel shows how they count for UI designers.

How can you create a single SVG graphic – maybe a logo or icon – that can be easily restyled and recolored in any setting or device? Massimo has a solution.

Icons are about communicating meaning but meaning isn't fixed – it moves. Catarina looks at the icon choices that are causing problems for users.

Jessica Enders looks at how even the giants of digital media can slip up in their web form UX.

Every day the world changes – so does your audience. UX benchmarking is the most effective way to track and identify potential disasters.

We know that users are less patient and we need to reduce waiting times. But there are also tricks to help us 'bend time' in our favor.

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. 

Websites are so often boxes in boxes in boxes. Daniel has 5 different ways to break your habit of rectangular website designs.

Today I have three more innovative ideas from psychology involving human reactions to color, change and attention spans that take things to another level.

Wireframing is a key component of modern frontend design but often overlooked in design and development courses. Saad can help.