Before Midjourney, there was NightCafe

The wild story of one of oldest generative AI web spaces.

Canva says AI features justify the 300% price hike

Some of their subscribers can expect much higher prices.

Digital product design vs. web design

How usage frequency impacts our design approach.

The Figma auto-layout dilemma

To use or not to use,  that is the question.

Information architecture first principles

What IA makes unique among other design disciplines.

The story of Figma

Living long enough as a hero to become a villain?

Every webpage deserves to be a place

What happens when blog users’ cursors meet online?

Icon IQ

Test your digital icon knowledge with a quiz.

Take off your glasses

A proven way to test the fundamentals of your design.

In search of a clutter metric for websites

How do we quantify the perception of website clutter?

Why anticipatory design isn’t working for businesses

Can we fulfill user needs before they are even articulated?

Frame0

A Balsamiq-like design tool to sketch UI ideas.

Reducing UX debt (or die trying)

Ways to cut debt and free up time for consistent design.

UX needs more punk

Disrupting the status quo in design.

SVG texture variations

A collection of subtle textures generated with SVG filters.

The fallacy of federated design systems

“Don’t choose federated. Instead, add federated. Gradually.”

Youform

An affordable form builder that challenges Typeform.

Introduction to XR accessibility

Key considerations for building inclusive XR experiences.

“Telling designers they shouldn’t use high-fidelity designs early in the exploration process can be the equivalent of telling an artist they shouldn’t use paint and instead only start with rough pencil sketches.”

Don’t rely on Google Fonts for hosting

“If you want consistency, self-host your fonts.”

The over-confetti-ing of digital experiences

How can we make surprises and delights special?

Webzibition

Freshly hand-picked websites for your inspiration.

Is your UX copy culturally sensitive?

A guide to crafting culturally sensitive UX content.

Button group UI design

The art of designing user-friendly button groups.

The rise of the design engineer

Where they come in, and why they’re so valuable.

Growth design

The role of growth designers in driving business success.

Simultaneous contrast

How you can make your colors appear more vibrant.

Embracing introversion in UX

The power of introversion in UX research and design.

Pop icons

The bold and joyful style makes your project pop.

Creative menu patterns and animations

Inspiring design examples, from minimal to playful.

Managing dangerous actions in interfaces

Ways to prevent users from making mistakes.

Weird Web October

A challenge to create a website every day of October.

Data whisperers, Pinocchios, and sentient design

From content artifacts to new experience paradigms.

Figma’s approach to designing UI3

What’s new in the design tool’s interface and what’s next.

A UX designer guide to prompt

How humans and machines can understand each other.

How bottom-up design enhances site accessibility

Towards a more equitable website and new niches.

Sneaking

The deceptive UX pattern you never saw coming.

PWA icons for all platforms/devices

Progressive Web Apps require a set of three icons.

Icon usability

When and how to evaluate digital icons.

Crafting QR codes

How QR codes work and how to customize them.

Exploring the AI solution space

AI is powerful if used well, but what does ‘well’ mean?

“When you don’t hear from teams using your design system, we’ve learned over the years that it’s typically not a sign of ‘everything is going great’ but ‘something is probably wrong.’”

Introducing Adobe Content Authenticity

A web app that helps creators protect their work.

Using movement to guide user behaviors

The many ways movement can power UX design.

Colors for race, ethnicity, and world regions

What to consider when choosing colors for cultural diversity.

BBC Sound Effects

An archive with 33,000+ clips from across the world.

Photo Edit Tools

Handy tools to bulk edit digital photos and images.

Player Style

Themes for video/audio players, built for many frameworks.

Component spec

Why the delivery of design system components matters.

How to pair fonts

Considerations for selecting and combining fonts.

MynaUI Icons

A large and rich collection of open-source icons.

Adobe Photoshop 2025 updates

New features and announcements from Adobe MAX 2024.

UX Strategy Kit

Digital product development methods for your business.

PicLooks

AI-generated profile pictures for your designs.

The user experience of developer tools

Key learnings from years of designing for developers.

Choice is not the enemy

“Let’s ditch the ‘don’t make me think’ mindset.”

How I organize variables in Figma

Managing variables in the design tool requires many decisions.

What makes a font accessible?

Selecting the right font goes beyond aesthetics.

VTracer

A web tool to turn raster images into vector graphics.

Design systems glossaries and primitive tokens

The ideas driving conversations about design systems.

Color fonts

A selection of COLR, COLRv1, and OpenType-SVG fonts.

Adobe made its painting app completely free

Fresco users no longer require a subscription.

Simplifying design system documentation

Where to start and how to approach it.

just build things

A collection of handy web tools for digital creators.

Pelicans on a bicycle

How AI models handle something they weren’t trained on.

Figma vs. Canva

When and why you might choose one over the other.

Managing multi-library design systems

How can we orchestrate similar UI libraries?

Calculating the ROI of your design system

An inspiring selection of some practical approaches.

Penpot plugins

Discover plugins for the popular open-source design tool.

Woah, opacity!

How opacity can simplify your design process.

A good design is a good essay

UX design isn’t just solving problems; it’s making a case.

Designing for Gen Z

Why standard design advice for Gen Z might not work.

Using constraints in Figma

How they help us build adaptive interfaces.

The power of accessible products

“Accessible design isn’t designing for everyone; it’s designing for anyone.”

State of Designer-Developer Collaboration 2024

36% of engineers vs. 10% of designers say teamwork is smooth.

S.Y.N.C.

Ensuring navigation consistency in complex platforms.

A new home for Pixelmator

Apple has signed a deal to acquire the image editor company.

Flexible Typesetting is now yours

The classic web typography book is freely available.

Practical visual collaboration in 10 minutes

The essentials to cultivate visual collaboration.

Web design inspiration

A collection of websites to spark your creativity.

Designing for decision making

The psychology of choice in digital spaces.

Beautifully crafted animated icons

A collection of dynamic icons available as open-source.

Your UI designs suck

Tools that will help you find UI flaws and issues.

Alternatives to typical tech visuals

Intriguing ways to present technical data/information.

UI Fonts

Test font pairings for your design needs in real time.

MingCute

A vast and versatile open-source icon library.

Goodbye 4px spacing, hello Fibonacci

A fresh perspective on spacing systems in design.

Don’t forget to localize your icons

It can undermine the trust you’re trying to build.

Should destructive buttons be hard to find?

“We’re all prone to misapplying a rule or two.”

Choosing the right words for effective UX

What to consider when naming global website elements.

The 2024 UX Tools Map

An illustrated guide to the UX software landscape.

Landing page templates

A collection of pre-designed web page layouts.

The joy of accidentally weird-looking websites

Why proper fallback fonts make a difference.

Design systems Q&A

A session on modern design system practices.

Using auto layout in Figma

How to create responsive and robust components.

Checkout UX 2024

“Most sites have a long way to go to improve checkout UX.”

The root causes for the development-design mismatch

“Product designers will have to give up their beloved free-form canvas.”

Types of disability

Overview of seeing, hearing, moving, and thinking disabilities.

AI’s transformative impact on web design

Supercharging productivity across the industry.

Clashing colors in UI/UX design

How we can use them mindfully and effectively.