Benjie Moss
Webdesigner Depot
United Kingdom
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50 fresh resources for designers, September 2016
It’s that time again. Here’s this month’s collection of the best free stuff for designers. We’ve got fonts, icons, brushes, templates and few extra litt → Read More
Popular design news of the week: August 29, 2016 – September 4, 2016
I Quit Freelancing This Could Be Mozilla’s Next Logo Prismic.io: CMS Backend for your Websites 5 Design Jobs that won't Exist → Read More
Comics of the week #355
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in o → Read More
Poll: Should designers just…design?
Every single designer reading this runs a blog, or at the very least a Medium account; around 5% (wildly anecdotal statistic) actually post on it. Most designer → Read More
Prototyping for the web with Framer
Framer is a really powerful tool that can prototype anything you can think of but if you take a look at Framer’s Gallery you’ll quickly notice something: → Read More
5 freelance tests you’re probably failing
Marketing is a waste of time. At least that’s how it feels for many designers. They’re not getting enough traffic, clients or sales. In fact, everything ab → Read More
Fixing JPEG’s “Photocopier Effect” problem
If you make a copy of a copy of a copy, the quality will deteriorate with each subsequent version in a phenomenon called “generation loss.” It’s easy to u → Read More
The rise and rise of the brutalist design trend
Brutalism in web design is raw, rough, unpolished and everything that today’s standard of the aesthetically beautiful website isn’t. It goes way beyond mini → Read More
Essential design trends, August 2016
Color and layers. This pair of design elements has been the driving force behind many of the year’s trends. While we haven’t seen anything take over, like f → Read More
Twitter’s new button lets users DM you direct from your site
Twitter wants to be your everything. In the grand tradition of social networks since time immemorial (read: the mid-‘90s?), Twitter is putting a greater empha → Read More
Popular design news of the week: August 15, 2016 – August 21, 2016
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 t → Read More
5 ways to feel like a design rock star, working as a roadie
There are many reasons to love being a web designer. Personally, my favorite part is the creative process. I love taking ideas and creating something with them. → Read More
Google moves to restrict advertising
Do you hate it when ads straight up block access to the content you want to see? Well Google does too! No, really. Starting now, Google will be penalizing sites → Read More
Introducing CSS’ new font-display property
We take web fonts for granted these days. We didn’t always have the option of setting our text in almost any typeface. I mean, we could, but then we’d have → Read More
Pretty isn’t enough…designing the web with brand values
Websites have become table stakes for companies. Even the newest start-ups—who don’t yet have products—have a website. The reason being, a website is the → Read More
Comics of the week #353
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in o → Read More
Adobe Typekit unveils major redesign
Adobe Typekit has just released a long-overdue update to its font browsing interface. Currently still in beta, the new UI makes finding, and using fonts substan → Read More
Deal: 1600+ hi-res backgrounds
Flat design has lost its lustre, and designers are now looking to pack their designs with texture, color, and pattern. So if you want to add a bit of punch to y → Read More
4 clear benefits of an A/B tested website
A/B testing (also known as split testing) is generally used to test different elements of a website where improvement of a measurable goal can be seen. → Read More
Vivaldi 1.3 is a bold new vision for browsers
If there’s one thing you can count on from the folks at Vivaldi, it’s that they’re always seeking to make their browser faster, better and more stable, wh → Read More