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By Natasha Colyer | 2 days ago Community & Inspiration 3 Essential Design Trends, August 2020 Do the lazy days have you longing for a new design technique to try? You are in luck. This month’s collection of essential design trends is packed with functional ideas to spruce up design projects. And all of them are fairly easy to accomplish and will give your project a modern – or intentionally old-school – look. Here’s what’s trending in design this month: Angles There are so many ways to add and use funky angles in design projects.... By Carrie Cousins | 4 days ago News Popular Design News of the Week: July 27, 2020 – August 2, 2020 Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the most popular designer news that we curated from the past week. Stroke... By Cameron Chapman | 5 days ago Business & Tech Is Change Positive for Web Designers? As a web designer, you’re constantly being bombarded with messages that tell you to acquire new skills, try new tools, and keep on hustling. But if you’re constantly changing things up, does it do the opposite of what you originally set out to do? In other words, if you always have to start over, is it possible to ever really achieve anything? I think it ultimately depends on why you’re making the change. When Change Is the Right Move for Web... By Suzanne Scacca | 7 days ago Community & Inspiration 20 Unmissable Websites, July 2020 After six months of uncertainty 2020 is finally beginning to find a style of its own. There are nods to Brutalism, a delightful blending of 80s pastels with 90s primaries, and the font style of choice is anything but geometric sans-serif. In this month’s collection of the freshest sites from the past four weeks you’ll find tons of new portfolios, from big agencies to freelancers, and some amazing primal scream therapy. Enjoy! Looks Like... By Paddi MacDonnell | Jul. 29, 2020 Tools & Resources 17 Tools I Can’t Design Without I think of a creative practice as a combination of an approach (a design philosophy) and a series of techniques (craft skills); a good tool facilitates a technique, which in turn supports an approach. It wasn’t until I sat down to write a list of tools I can’t design without, that I realized just how many tools I rely on as an integral part of my creative process. The danger of tools is that they promote certain techniques, and that bias can alter... By Ben Moss | Jul. 27, 2020 Popular posts News Popular Design News of the Week: July6, 2020 – July 12, 2020 News Popular Design News of the Week: May 18, 2020 – May 24, 2020 News Popular Design News of the Week: June 29, 2020 – July 5, 2020 Sponsored Perfect Your Feedback Process With BugHerd News Popular Design News of the Week: July 27, 2020 – August 2, 2020 News Popular Design News of the Week: July 20, 2020 – July 26, 2020 Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the most popular designer news that we curated from the past week. 4 Design... By Cameron Chapman | Jul. 26, 2020 Interactive Design Case Study: 8 Design Tips That Increased My Ecommerce Conversions By 42% When it comes to increasing sales for your ecommerce store, there are 3 levers you can pull: You can increase your average order value; You can increase the amount of traffic to your site; You can increase your conversion rate. While all of the above are important, the cheapest, most effective way to grow your sales is by improving your conversion rate. For most online stores, low conversion rates are typically the result of a poor design or a bad... By Steve Chou | Jul. 23, 2020 Sponsored How to Improve Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and SEO Contentful; Webster’s Dictionary defines “contentful” as… not found. Clearly someone made up this word, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. The world of user experience metrics is moving quickly, so new terminology is needed. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of a number of metrics measuring the render time of content on a web page. What is Largest Contentful Paint? Google defines LCP as “the render time of the largest... By WDD Staff | Jul. 21, 2020 Visual Design The Designer’s Guide to Letter-Spacing Most of the information we consume happens through reading, so it makes a lot of sense to pay attention to the words when designing. There are many aspects to typography, but one of the things that helped improve the quality of my design was letter-spacing. Letter-spacing is about adding and removing space between letters. Some people confuse it with kerning, but these two are different; letter-spacing affects the whole line of text, whereas... By Denis Valetin | Jul. 20, 2020 News Popular Design News of the Week: July 13, 2020 – July 19, 2020 Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the most popular designer news that we curated from the past week. Squircley... By Cameron Chapman | Jul. 19, 2020 Business & Tech In Memory of Flash: 1996-2020 We are gathered here today…. Today I write in memory of Adobe Flash (née Macromedia), something that a bunch of people are actually too young to remember. I write this with love, longing, and a palpable sense of relief that it’s all over. I have come to praise Flash, to curse it, and finally to bury it. We’ve been hearing about the death of Flash for a long time. We know it’s coming. December 2020 has been announced as the official timeframe... By Ezequiel Bruni | Jul. 16, 2020 Popular freebies Free Download: 60 Free Investment and RWD Icons Free Download: 30 Script Fonts Sponsored Grab Free SSL Certificates From ZeroSSL Like it or not, we’re slowly edging towards a two-tier web: those sites that are secure, and…everything else. There was a time on the web, when we didn’t have SSL certificates, and lots of people’s data got stolen. To address the problem, and regain users’ trust SSL certificates were introduced to secure sites handling sensitive data. And because they were initially a niche technology, you paid through the nose for them. (An SSL... By WDD Staff | Jul. 14, 2020 Tools & Resources Exciting New Tools for Designers, July 2020 Some of the changes we are seeing with where w...