Design

Web Standards, and the documentation to support them, provide huge insight into ‘the why’ and ‘the what’ of the world wide web. In this article, we take a look at the history of Web Standards, how to use them in your work and ways you can get involved in making them.

Are you making these HUGE mistakes when presenting web design mockups to your clients? Learn how to avoid mistakes and look like a pro!

Understanding eXperience Design to carry out your own design projects

Web designers have typically always been big-picture people, in that they like having really big screens in front of them. It's convenient, and it makes you feel very professional. At this point in my life, I don't think I could go back to having just one monitor, either. And yet, I find that many websites don't live up to the potential promised by big darned screens, or even that presented by phones with HD resolutions. This is because we live in a mobile-first world, with mobile-first people. They go to far off and exotic places like "outside", so they have to carry their screens around w...

A year long case study of applying design to business outcomes

You don’t want to be ‘that designer’ who picks up elements from a UI kit or a free illustration. Fortunately there are a ton of style…

For a short period of time I worked on a design system at WebNL, an agency specialised in web design, development and marketing based in…

A round-up of all Codrops resources of the year 2018.

And the role of development in design

From design systems to DesignOps, we're seeing some dramatic shifts toward more intentional systems and processes. Will 2019 be the year of open design?

Remove Image Background: 100% automatically – in 5 seconds – without a single click

Partner with Pantone for your color inspiration. Use this quick 'Find a Pantone Color' online tool - just enter #, name or choose from palette.

Learn how to design awesome UIs by yourself using specific tactics explained from a developer's point-of-view.

HTML and CSS are often seen as a burden. This is a feeling I’ve noticed from engineers and designers I’ve worked with in the past, and it’s a sentiment

Hue is a collection of hand-picked color palettes for inspire your design and make beautiful website and app.

Figma, an online collaborative interface design tool, has donated an organizational membership to the WordPress project. The browser-based application helps designers and developers collaborate mor…

Too much design effort goes into artifacts that are not part of the working software. There’s a better way to work.

An illustrated guide on the different ‘resolutions’ of user flows, and when to use them.

It’ll be love at first sight.

Uizard, the future of app development. Transform mobile hand-drawn wireframes automatically to Sketch and download the React Native code! Code less, create more.

Examples of common UI elements and interactions with HTML and CSS alone.

You’ve just finished an incredible course where the instructor has given you a huge range of tools and methodologies to put towards…

This year I’ve been involved in a lot of projects to help large organisations improve the web experience for their customers.

Search through 180 Color Palettes used throughout the last 4000 years.

We humans are quite adept at quickly assessing whatever happens to be in front of us. I’m sure it has something to do with that ancient “fight or flight” response....

Color scale generator by Hayk An

Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug

It's a universal truth that there's more than one meaning to just about every word. This is doubly true for industry lingo. If you're just getting started in web design, you need to know what everything really means, if you want to get ahead. So here it is: here's what the Secret Web Design Illuminati doesn't want you to know. Read this article, and you'll be able to dab on the haters with your hip new slang. Isn't that swell? .htaccess A file that sits on your web server which, if ever touched, is perhaps the quickest and easiest way to break your whole site. AJAX The practice of making al...