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3 Essential Design Trends, June 2021
If you are feeling like me right now, you have mixed emotions about the world in general. And this is translating into a pretty distinct design trend that’s happening almost across the board: Websites aren’t using many images of people right now.
There are just too many questions about what is appr..
VS Code Extensions for HTML
Let’s look at some extensions for VS Code that make writing and editing HTML (and languages that are basically HTML with extra powers) better. You may not like all of them. Maybe some of them don’t appeal to you, solve a problem you don’t have, or feel like more clutter than you need. That’s OK. The..
Should Web Designers Worry About Competition?
Virtually every business out there has competition – and it can get heated. For example, consider automobile manufacturers. Think about all the money they spend trying to one-up each other in both product features and marketing. Must be quite a stack of cash, huh?
Web design, at least at the freela..
Popular Design News of the Week: May 31 2021 – June 6, 2021
Every day design fans submit incredible industry stories to our sister-site, Webdesigner News. Our colleagues sift through it, selecting the very best stories from the design, UX, tech, and development worlds and posting them live on the site.
The best way to keep up with the most important stories..
20 Booklet Mockup PSD Templates for Photoshop
There are some things you can’t explain in a few words, or with website copy. You need a booklet or a brochure. Now, there are all kinds of brochures. Practically every business is giving them away these days. If you want your audience to take you seriously, both your content and your booklet presen..
Principles for user-centered front-end development
Colin Oakley:
• Accessible — Use semantic HTML, and make sure we meet the WCAG 2.1 AA standard as a minimum and it works with assisted technologies (this sits alongside the DWP Accessibility Manual)
• Agnostic — Build mobile-first and make it work across a range of devices, and user contexts
• Robu..
25 Beautifully Designed Examples of Brand Presentation
Branding is a vital and integral part of any business. In fact, even before trying out your products and services, branding is what helps people recognize and identify your business. No matter how big or small your business or venture is, your marketing strategy will not be successful unless you pay..
Can I :has()
I just joked that we’re basically getting everything we want in CSS super fast (mostly referring to container queries, my gosh, can you imagine they are actually coming?). Now we might actually get parent selectors?! As in .parent:has(.child) { }. Traditionally it’s been nope, too slow, browsers can..
40 Free Web & Mobile UI Templates for Figma
Designing an effective user interface is not an easy task. However, when you have the right tools at your disposal, it becomes easier.
The first step is to find a tool that you’ll enjoy working with and that has all the features you need in UI design software. Luckily, Figma fits that bill quite ni..
Weekly News for Designers № 595
DevHuntr – Quickly search through repos, documentation and more with this handy tool.
Dynamic Favicons for WordPress – Generate as many different favicons as you’d like with the help of PHP and SVG.
Helsinki Design System – This open-source design system is focused on usability and accessibility.
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