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A web design degree used to be the obvious way to learn the craft. Now it’s competing with YouTube, AI, and people who spend those same years actually […]

Dark mode toggles are everywhere, but do users actually need them, or are designers designing for other designers? A growing UX debate is questioning whether […]

A practical guide to naming UI components, with useful resources, naming conventions, and structures. You’ll find more [useful […]

Turn any photo into gloriously retro ASCII art — made entirely from letters, symbols, and tiny bits of chaos. This free tool turns your dog, face, logo, or […]

October is just around the corner, which means it’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! Designed by the community for the community, they’re here to […]

For decades, web designers obsessed over perfecting menus, tabs, and dropdowns. Now a single empty prompt box is quietly replacing them all. As AI turns […]

AI isn't killing web development—it’s killing the boring parts. The real winners won't be the people who can memorize another framework. They'll be the […]

Before TikTok turned every moment into content, people uploaded shaky, pointless little iPhone videos to YouTube and forgot about them. This strange website […]

Canva just made a much more serious play for professional designers: Affinity now brings design, photo editing, and layout into one free app, while Canva […]

Nobody wants another app cluttering their phone—so why does every website keep begging us to install one? The web already perfected the experience: click, […]

A wonderfully weird typeface from 1973 has come back to life — and somehow it looks more at home in 2026 than ever. Meet Clippy, the retro font that bends, […]

We spent 15 years filling our phones with apps. AI could make almost all of them invisible... and the death of apps may already be closer than anyone realizes.

AI can now build a UI in seconds, but that doesn't mean it built the UI you actually designed. A new Applitools integration turns Figma designs into visual […]

AI images are taking over stock libraries, but the human-made web isn't dead yet. We found 25 places where designers can still find incredible free, real […]

Chrome can now measure exactly how obnoxious a website’s ads are, from how much of your screen they swallow to how much data and CPU time they burn. Those […]

Cloudflare just gave website owners a new weapon against AI crawlers: keep the search traffic, block the AI training. After years of watching bots consume the […]

After 16 years, WordPress just killed one of its most recognizable traditions. The predictable “Twenty Something” default themes are history, and their […]

Photoshop Elements is getting a serious AI upgrade, with Generative Expand, AI upscaling and a new assistant that helps you edit simply by describing what you […]

Despite broad browser support, container queries remain surprisingly underused and frequently misunderstood. Let’s look at how they differ from media […]

Apple moved key controls to the side of its new foldable iPhone to make them easier to reach — but easier for whom? The decision raises a surprisingly big UX […]

Figma is turning a wild idea into reality: instead of searching for the perfect plugin, you can just ask AI to build it. If this catches on, designers may stop […]

Strong UX ideas do not secure investment on their own. Through a worked example, Alex Williams breaks down how to define business value, calculate costs, test […]

TThe web is evolving beyond menus, forms, and endless clicks toward experiences shaped around human intent. For UX designers, understanding this shift means […]

Could there be a better way to welcome the new month than with a new collection of desktop wallpapers? Whether you’re holding tightly onto summer or eagerly […]

Data visualisation sits at the intersection of two disciplines that rarely talk to each other: data and design. Meriem Benhabiles explores what changes when […]

Every website peaks on launch day and slowly drifts from there, not because it breaks, but because nobody has time to keep it current. Autonomous websites, […]

Discover SMIL, the often-overlooked way to animate SVGs that works inside `` tags and can fully animate everything in an SVG without JavaScript.

New EU guidelines, why AI sparkles aren’t enough, when AI labels are required, and what the rules mean for AI-powered features and products.

When tasked with building a highly interactive, tactile web experience, the architecture must serve the art direction. In this article, Alexey Kopytin explains […]

The gap between “you need a library for this” and “the browser does this” keeps closing. A practical guide to auditing your dependencies and finding […]

Protect an Astro site with HTTP Basic Authentication using middleware, environment variables, and no extra packages. The post How to Add HTTP Password on an […]

Whether you’re enjoying some well-earned time off this August or are jumping headfirst into a new project, how about some new desktop wallpapers to accompany […]

A fresh batch of developer tools for July 2026, covering AI agents, self-hosted apps, PHP tooling, native Mac utilities, and more. The post Fresh Resources for […]

As AI reshapes product design, it could give designers greater autonomy or expose the gaps that autonomy makes harder to hide. Exploring both the bull and bear […]

Many of the AI tools we interact with take the form of text boxes. But what if there was a different way to interact with AI? Oleksii Hrzhehorzhevskyi explores […]

While React Server Components rely on the custom Flight protocol to stream interactive UIs, this same mechanism introduces powerful deserialization sinks that […]

The common rule of thumb is to never “block” the browser’s main thread when running JavaScript tasks. But is this a hard rule? Victor Ayomipo describes a […]

Many companies assume everyone craves new AI features. But the reality is that most people don't want more AI — at least not in the way most AI leaders […]

The strongest visual concepts don’t start in Figma. They start with the right questions. Explore the pre-concept phase of brand identity design, where teams […]

Many UI trends are designed to capture attention and signal innovation, but those goals often conflict with the needs of mental health apps: reducing cognitive […]

We have been building websites inside boxes for years on WordPress. Let’s take a closer look at [Kirki](https://kirki.com/), the first freeform visual […]

AI coding agents write functional code but lack design taste. These 10 installable AI skills teach your agent color theory, typography, and UI principles. The […]

A closer look at why users don’t need more tools in their daily lives. What they need are seamless integrations of useful features to match already existing, […]

These 1Password features go beyond saving logins, from Travel Mode and expiry alerts to shared vaults, Wi-Fi QR codes, and emergency access planning. The post […]

We’ve fallen into conversational tunnel vision, defaulting every AI capability into a chat-based interface simply because LLMs are trained on dialogue data. […]

React Aria ships with no animations by default. Here's how to add smooth transitions to Popover, Modal, and Menu using CSS or the Motion library. The post How […]

June is as good a time as any to highlight new tools and resources for our fellow web developers. This month’s batch covers everything from GPU-accelerated […]

Teams can generate UI faster than ever, but they still have to guarantee that what they ship is usable, secure, and maintainable. Accessibility as an […]

July is just around the corner, and that means... It’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! As every month, the wallpapers in this collection were created […]

In a world where AI is informing more design choices, it’s easy to mistake predictions for certainties. This article introduces Probabilistic Design, a […]