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3 Essential Design Trends, October 2022

This month, it’s all about the images. Each of the design trends we spotted has to do with the images you select – or don’t select – for a project and how you use them. Here’s what’s trending in design this month. 1. Floating Images Sometimes you design off the grid intentionally. Other times you […] The post 3 Essential Design Trends, October 2022 first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

Posted by on 2022-10-10

How To Build A Design Portfolio With Zero Clients

A design portfolio is an excellent way to demonstrate your skills as a freelancer. As a web designer, you compete with millions of other web designers. Therefore, you must have a strong portfolio to land a high-paying web designing job in such a competitive space. A strong portfolio sets you apart from others. Having no […] The post How To Build A Design Portfolio With Zero Clients first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

Posted by on 2022-10-05

15 Best New Fonts, October 2022

Each month we publish this roundup of the best new fonts for designers to help you find new ways of packing personality into your designs. In October’s edition, you’ll find a number of revivals and a ton of vintage inspiration, all wrapped up with a modern twist. After years of geometric sans-serifs, a few decorative […] The post 15 Best New Fonts, October 2022 first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

Posted by on 2022-10-03

How To Make Your Designs Scannable (And Why You Should)

Jakob Nielsen’s How Users Read on the Web is 25 years old this week, and one glance at an eye-tracking study will tell you its key observations are still relevant today. Simply put, users don’t read a web page; they scan it for individual words and sentences. A typical pattern shown in eye-tracking reports is that […] The post How To Make Your Designs Scannable (And Why You Should) first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

Posted by on 2022-09-28

20 Best New Websites, October 2022

The design world fluctuates back and forth, swerving between love and hate for different design trends. Sometimes we see a wide range of approaches, and sometimes designers all hop on the same idea. This month, the web is dominated by animation. Designers are cramming in motion in unexpected ways. And it’s fun to explore. Here […] The post 20 Best New Websites, October 2022 first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

Posted by on 2022-09-26

5 Ways That UX Developers Influence SEO 

User Experience is a crucial consideration for any web developer or designer; the only way to ensure that you’re delivering a successful website is to ensure that the end-user or customer will feel comfortable using it.  A strong user experience increases your client’s chances of successful audience engagement and conversions. What you might not realize, […] The post 5 Ways That UX Developers Influence SEO  first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

Posted by on 2022-09-21

Adobe Has Acquired You

There were mixed reactions on Thursday morning when Adobe announced it had acquired Figma. Excited press releases extolling the benefits of the “collaboration” followed the news. Dylan Field, founder and CEO of Figma, said: “There is a huge opportunity for us to accelerate the growth and innovation of the Figma platform with access to Adobe’s […] The post Adobe Has Acquired You first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

Posted by on 2022-09-19

Exciting New Features in Safari 16

Apple has released an OS update. Packaged in with it is the latest version of Safari, 16. Expected to be released ahead of next month’s macOS 13, Safari 16 is packed with updates, making it one of the most capable browsers available. For web designers, the significance is the forward momentum in web technologies that […] The post Exciting New Features in Safari 16 first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

Posted by on 2022-09-14

Exciting New Tools for Designers, September 2022

The Summer’s over, and we’re back at our desks to discover that the web’s best app builders, font designers, asset creators, and developers have been hard at work to deliver this bumper collection of exciting new tools for designers and developers. Below you’ll find productivity apps, icons, gradients, AI, and some awesome new fonts. Enjoy! […] The post Exciting New Tools for Designers, September 2022 first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

Posted by on 2022-09-12

Are Modals In Web Design A UX Disaster?

Modals, a nifty little feature that allows you to display different messages at the top of your website, have been touted as extremely useful. Some even claim that they are helpful enough to completely replace the banner ads we all hate so much. But are modals in web design a UX disaster? If you are […] The post Are Modals In Web Design A UX Disaster? first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

Posted by on 2022-09-07