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| Get a Free .design Domain Name For Your Website! A .design domain name lets people know (especially your clients or future employers) what you do before they even arrive to your website. Unlike .com or .net, a .design domain name is more relevant and it helps with your branding. A .design domain name looks great on your portfolio, your resume, and as a custom email address. Your .design domain name comes with free email hosting, SSL Security, & a free site builder. Search for your free .design domain name! - AD | |
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| Strange Creatures Called "Designers" It never hurts to poke a little fun at oneself, as illustrated by this affectionate look at designers through the lens of anthropology. The self-deprecating history of the species includes insights such as designers being nocturnal, curious, and even sapiosexual. It's a fun read for anyone in the creative industries. | |
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| Bedrock Static Site Generator Bedrock is a fantastic, free, static-site generator that helps you document your design system, or even prototype a progressive web app. Document typography choices, color palettes, and even icons. Bedrock is built using HTML and CSS, and you can even hook up a framework such as Bootstrap, or Foundation. | |
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| Everything We've Learnt from 5 Years of Ghost It's incredible to think that the purist's favorite blog tool, Ghost, is only five years old. In this characteristically candid post John O'Nolan and Hannah Wolfe look back on everything they've learned in the past five years as they built the platform from a Kickstarter campaign to a $3million business serving 512,000 sites. | |
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| Windows XP 2018 Edition It's almost 17 years since Windows XP was first unleashed upon the world, and after several love-it-or-hate-it operating system updates since, XP remains one of the most popular OS ever made. But despite the popular UX, there's no denying XP looks dated, so designer Kamer Avdan decided to update it for 2018. | |
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| What's New for Designers, May 2018 May is a bumper month for new web design tools, and our monthly roundup of the latest and greatest additions to every designer's toolbox includes fresh new apps, handy scripts, tutorials to update your skills, and as always, some cool new fonts to download. Take a browse through this month's offerings and find some real workhorses. | |
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| The Next Mobile Decade A decade ago the first iPhone debuted and changed the web forever. The rush to mobile precipitated an era of responsive design, and made terms like "viewport", "device", and "touchscreen" common designer parlance. Adobe takes a look at where the next ten years will take us, with the help of some industry experts. | |
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| Progressive Image Loading Mobile users expect sites to load in three seconds or less. That means that even extreme image compression may not be enough. Mike Planzer shares an awesome technique for progressive image loading designed to retain far more users. It's incredibly easy to implement, even for non-coders. Check it out. | |
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| Introducing Airbnb Cereal It seems that everyone has a bespoke typeface these days; as one of the simplest ways to create a unique brand presence, and one of the cheapest ways of securing global font rights, it's easy to explain the burgeoning industry. Airbnb is the latest to jump on the trend with a new typeface designed to work everywhere from mobile UI, to billboard adverts. | |
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| The Future of Branding is 3D Branding, for the majority of its history has been 2D, existing in a horizontal and vertical plane. Even when logos are created as physical objects, they often simply mimic their flat counterparts. But with the arrival of AR and VR, a new plane opens up for branding. Mark Wilson spots an emerging trend. | |
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