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Should You be Building Progressive Web Apps?

Should You be Building Progressive Web Apps?

Take a close look at Monetate’s Ecommerce Quarterly Report for Q2 2018 and you might not be happy about the state of mobile websites it depicts.The good news is that smartphones drive significantly mo

Why Web Design Must Finally Break Free from Its Graphic Design Roots

Why Web Design Must Finally Break Free from Its Graphic Design Roots

Web design has always been haunted by its graphic design roots. In the early days, we didn’t know what we were doing, so we stole shamelessly from print.Grids, type hierarchies, Swiss precision—if it

How Gmail’s UX Reflects Your Habits (and Exposes Your Flaws)

How Gmail’s UX Reflects Your Habits (and Exposes Your Flaws)

Gmail just celebrated its birthday—April 1st, no less. And no, it wasn’t a prank. Google launched Gmail on April Fools’ Day back in 2004, and two decades later, it’s still the most widely used email s

Dark Mode Is the New Comic Sans (And You Know It)

Dark Mode Is the New Comic Sans (And You Know It)

Somewhere along the way, dark mode stopped being a thoughtful accessibility option and became a design religion. In fact our obsession with dark mode might be UX poison disguised as user preference.A

Exciting New Tools for Designers, May 2025

Exciting New Tools for Designers, May 2025

It seems like artificial intelligence is at the core of almost every conversation in design, media, and marketing. That is obvious with the release of new design tools as well. There are AI-influenced

Korean Air Takes Off with a Fresh New Look

Korean Air Takes Off with a Fresh New Look

Korean Air has just unveiled a stunning new corporate identity and aircraft livery, marking a major shift in its visual brand.This update comes after over 40 years, reflecting the airline’s evolution

The Browser Back Button: Hero, Villain, or Outdated Relic?

The Browser Back Button: Hero, Villain, or Outdated Relic?

Ah, the humble browser back button. It sits there in the top-left corner of your screen (or hidden in your phone’s swipe gestures) like a trusty sidekick, always ready to whisk you away from the curre

Dogma Kills Design

Dogma Kills Design

It’s all in the title, really.I am no stranger to dogmatic thinking. I was once a very religious missionary, and currently am an open source enthusiast, a web designer, and a gamer. Of all the dogmati

Making your Mark: 6 Tips for Infusing Brand Essence into Your Website

Making your Mark: 6 Tips for Infusing Brand Essence into Your Website

Most of the time, it comes down to one thing: brand essence. Your brand essence, or brand identity, represents all of the unique components of your business that separate it from the competition. It’s

Web Design & Web Development Salaries Around the World in 2025

Web Design & Web Development Salaries Around the World in 2025

If you’ve been in tech for more than five minutes, you know salaries swing harder than a startup’s “pivot” plan.In 2021, it felt like everyone and their dog was being handed six figures and a sign-on

Unsticking Creativity: 8 Practical Tips for Beating Creative Block

Unsticking Creativity: 8 Practical Tips for Beating Creative Block

Have you ever found yourself staring at a blank screen, feeling utterly stuck? That’s the infamous creative block. It’s like a stubborn gatekeeper of your creative world, refusing to let ideas flow. B

7 Worst Fails in Email Marketing

7 Worst Fails in Email Marketing

But we also face problems, the most disappointing of which is people ignore emails, not performing the desired action, or worst of all unsubscribing. Why does it happen?The web is constantly progressi