How Powerful Micro-Interactions Boost Your UX

Micro-interactions have become increasingly important in a world with a dizzying number of digital platforms, and an ocean of content. While micro-interactions used to be thought of as a cool feature in the early days of digital design, in the hyper-competitive...

Trippy CSS Distortion Effects

Sometimes a cool glitchy, distorted effect is the perfect addition to your web design. Maybe you’re creating a tech site, a developer’s portfolio, or something completely experimental. Distortion effects are an unconventional but interesting way to grab visitors’...

How to Decrease Decision Fatigue and Increase Conversions

With so much of our lives spent trying to choose from oversized lists of options, why not make your website simpler? Here’s what you can do to reduce decision fatigue and make your website easier to say “yes” to. It sort of feels like our lives are nothing more than...

5 Design Hacks Guaranteed to Put Your Conversions on Fire

If you want to increase ROI from your website, you can go about it in two ways: increase traffic or increase conversions. It is much easier to increase conversions, however. Depending on what you do, it costs little to nothing to increase conversions and the resulting...

Four Common Font Types and When to Use Them

When you’re first learning the nuances of typography, all those different font types can be confusing. You might know the difference between serif and sans-serif, but do you know the right time to use them? And what about the dozens of subtypes? There are four main...

20 Freshest Web Designs, September 2019

Welcome to September’s edition of our monthly roundup of the best sites to be launched (or relaunched with significant updates) in the previous four weeks. This month, there’s tons of color, and some elegant transitions. Video is huge this month, with a number of...

40+ Motivational Quotes for Creatives

Sometimes we all need a little motivation. The road to creating something great can be tough. There are many twists and turns, failures, trials and tribulations. We all grow a little weary. The goal of this article is to reinvigorate your creativity with empowering...

Popular Design News of the Week: September 9, 2019 – September 15, 2019

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...

15 Best APIs for Web Designers and Developers

There once was a time when your clients desired certain features that either left you scratching your head as to how you’d pull it off or dreading all of the work it would take to manually put something like that together. However, with the rising popularity of...

Top Prototyping and Design Handoff Tools for Designers

The advantage of prototyping is that it allows designers to prove or disprove their concepts. Also, to fine tune their designs. And it can demonstrate how the final product will work once production is completed. Prototyping tools are used to simulate application...