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3 Essential Design Trends, January 2021
Don’t drop the ball on these website design trends for the new year. All of the trends featured here this month are visual in nature – not as many user interface elements as previous months, but all just as stunning and usable.
Here’s what’s trending in design this month.
1. 3D Scenes on White (Li..
Five questions designers with full-time jobs struggle with
How to find your way juggling between your full-time design job and your passion for design.Good designers are never satisfied. I’ve yet to meet a designer of any sort who’s completely happy with their job. You start off in design school learning about the importance of creativity and that time Sagm..
Why star ratings don’t make sense for all product & services
Star rating system is being used in most of the products & services we use today. Users who have extreme experiences (either very bad or very good) are more likely to leave rating & review than users who have average experiences, thus creating selection biases. The difference between 4.5 stars and 4..
How the Web Kept the World Moving in 2020
In much of the world, 2020 started off like any other year. January 1 provided a reason to celebrate and look forward to good things.
You don’t need to be a historian to know the rest of the story. The COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with social and political unrest, made 2020 a memorable year – mostly ..
Designer as writer
We all know that design involves a codex of taste—evident to its practitioners yet largely unwritten. To explain this understanding a key would help; that is, a system of good and bad that resembles design yet states explicit rules.
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Discovering design
A podcast featuring a different guest each episode recounting the journey of their career prior to Design, what sparked their interest in the creative arts, and how they pivoted to cement their career as a full-time Designer.
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Feature requests are stupid business activity
When the company’s leadership doesn’t give a space for uncertainty, the team often gets a feature request.
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My stack will outlive yours
My stack requires no maintenance, has perfect Lighthouse scores, will never have any security vulnerability, is based on open standards, is portable, has an instant dev loop, has no build step and… will outlive any other stack.
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Web design that focusses on text content is the best
I love text focussed website. There are no annoying consent forms, paywalls or popups. The reading experience is the best.
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Getting a seat at the table doesn’t mean you need to abandon your desk.
Leading with craft: A series about hands-on career paths in the design industry.
Getting a seat at the table doesn’t mean you need to abandon your desk. was originally published in UX Collective on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
