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The way you use your mobile phone can affect your brain. A research study has found that daily mobile phone users have a larger somatosensory cortex.

Menu on hover, category landing page on click: we discuss challenges and solutions for replicating this pattern on touchscreens.

There are definite right and wrong ways to design navigation menus. This basic part of a website is often overlooked in the design process and it shows in terms of usability. Clunky, overcrowded or mi…

Create stunning responsive HTML e-mails in a minute

The first step to building a successful website is ... defining success.

Coolest handpicked Gradient Hues and Swatches for your next super amazing stuff

Design can benefit immensely from cognitive bias.

You want to create a strong brand presence. You’ve got your logo, you’ve picked the font, and you’ve selected a strong color palette to represent your brand. But how do you ensure that you’ve consi…

Are design principles still serving a purpose?

Pattern Library: https://natashahockey.github.io/pattern-library/

One of the most frustrating scenarios for a UX designer is when a client’s team takes time to think things over and comes back with a batch of design changes without any explanation. Everything may se…

Should logos be SVG or PNG? A screenshot, JPEG or PNG? Understanding how each format works and what are the trade-offs can help answering these questions.

Designed on a 24x24 grid with an emphasis on functionality, consistency and simplicity.

The internet is a tangled mess that’s visually overloaded. There’s so much to look at… and read… and comprehend, that it can be difficult to find focus and figure out what is important. If your design…

Our brains are amazing instruments – but they're not perfect. Tomas shows you how to use cognitive biases to help your design, rather than undermining it.

How many people like filling out forms? I think, not many. It’s not what users want from the service — they just want to buy tickets, chat…

How in the world has shaming users become a marketing trend? Who thinks you can get a positive behavior by insulting users?

Get inspired and create something beautiful.

An op-ed from the front lines of product design at MetaLab.

Many companies still struggle to justify the expense of a professional website service. But the truth is that bad web design will damage your bottom line.

Brush up on your knowledge of image resolution, from pixel size to DPI.

Information density is the amount of information in the form of content that a site visitor is greeted with as soon as he lands on a website or webpage. The greater the information density, the greate…

Tips in the article could be handy for every designer, focused on maximing the usability of his mobile designs for iOS and Android.

A couple of days ago, I wanted to log in into my Mailchimp account, as I usually do, and saw this:

What they are, why you shouldn’t use them and what to do instead.

A little question is a big deal when it comes to shaping people’s experience with your product. How do we ask people for their gender in a…

by Nick Babich