The hamburger menu was initially introduced as a means to obscure secondary navigation items in an effort to maintain a cleaner and more focused web or application design. Android was one of the early adopters of this design component, going as far as to include it in their popular Material Design […]

Creating products which respond to the user’s needs has become the de-facto standard approach for product design. In the attempt to create the best possible experience designers constantly search for new techniques that allow them to create better user experiences. One of the methods that recently became popular among many […]

Analytics are all the rage. But all those numbers can get overwhelming fast. Here are five website metrics that you can’t ignore—traffic sources, keywords, visitors, top 10 pages, exit pages—and design tweaks you can make so that you’ll see improvement in those areas. (You can find all of these metrics […]

The web is a diverse platform, but that diversity impacts usability and user experience. We explore the case for an open source design system for the entire web. Unlike mobile applications, the web has no set design guidelines to which a designer can refer. Instead, each web project tends to […]

10 Tools and Apps that Made Me a Better Designer in 2017 10 Logo design Trends that will Dominate 2018 An A-Z Checklist for 2018 Web Design Inspiration Which JavaScript Frameworks Should You Learn in 2018? The Most Hearted Pens of 2017 12 Points to Improve your Website in 2018 5 […]

How Did I Do in 2017? This time last year I made seven predictions for 2017 that were surprisingly accurate. Last year I predicted that 2017 would not be the year of VR. I was proved correct, the constraints of the physical tech is too much of an obstruction. I predicted that […]

I might have noticed a trend or two in web design this last year. Let me rephrase that: I spend the vast majority of my time online. I do my shopping, here, and my work, and a lot of my leisure reading. I browse the Internet mid-gaming, whether to look […]

Too often we find ourselves producing content piece after content piece without ever once defining what the goal of the content is. If you’re about to create a new piece of content and haven’t yet asked yourself why you’re creating this content, do so and do it now. While you’re at it, […]

Containerd 1.0 Released 2017: The Year of the Blob 10 UX Design Predictions for 2018 The Front-End Checklist 2017: The Year in WordPress Manageable Utility Systems with CSS Variables Site Design: 10×17 Chrome Apps are Dead, as Google Shuts Down the Chrome Web Store Section Poly API by Google – […]

The SEO Power of Links Today One issue often cited by those who believe links aren’t as important to SEO today is that they believe that spammers have made them less useful as a ranking signal. This was a big problem for Google for many years until things started to […]