The Benefits & Dangers of a Designer’s Ego
An ego, in and of itself, isn’t an evil thing, but there’s a fine line between using it healthily and letting it get in your way.
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Dealing with Terrible Business Ideas from Your Clients
Knowing how to spot a bad business idea or tell when a particular business relationship looks rickety is an important skill every designer should learn.
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6 Free Starter & Barebone Themes for WordPress Development
A collection of free starter themes for WordPress that will allow you to quickly build a theme to your own custom specifications.
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How does a combination of paragraph spacing with indentation rate for legibility and aesthetics?
Conventional wisdom says either indent paragraphs or have a space between them but don’t do both. The argument is that since the point of both methods is to show where one paragraph ends and another begins, either way is sufficient.
Suffi…
8 Free Maintenance & Coming Soon Plugins for WordPress
A collection of the best free WordPress plugins for creating a coming soon page or adding a maintenance page to an existing website.
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Finding and Using Your Own Design Voice
Your design voice – or design style, if you will – is how you choose to relay information to your audience. That sounds simple, but for the uninitiated, it can…
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10 Free Onboarding UIs Built With CSS & JavaScript
With these free CSS and JavaScript snippets, you’ll have plenty of onboarding UI ideas that offer both inspiration and code samples to help you get started.
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What should you consider when prioritizing information and features across screens on a product?
Based on solutions and ideas from "Can you make it more prominent?" stakeholder phenomenon I decided to list out and prioritize each of the features on each screen in the product.
Turned out it’s not so simple, some screens woul…
10 WordPress Plugins to Help Improve Website Accessibility
We have a fantastic collection of WordPress plugins and tools to help you overcome the challenges that come along with website accessibility.
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What Is Atomic Web Design and Do I Need It?
Web designers may use a number of techniques, approaches and philosophies while creating compelling and engaging digital interfaces. Each designer has their own preferences – some prefer to work from…
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