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For the past few weeks there has been lots of talk about HTML headings in web standards circles. Perhaps you've seen some of the blog posts, tweets, and Gi

You know about Photoshop actions – well, scripts can do so much more. We've rounded up 15 of the best.

SVG icons for popular brands.

Being pretty self-taught as far as UI design goes, I’ve always wondered why so many articles and books talk about color theory and palettes…

A handy technique I learned from the wrong job… Years ago, I spent an awkward patch of my career as an instructional designer, creating courses for online learning. It was a bad fit and I moved on hap…

Tomorrow I’m speaking at ImageCon. It’s been over a year since I last gave my talk. As I dusted off my presentation and updated it, it seemed like a good time to assess the state of the…

Being pretty self-taught as far as UI design goes, I’ve always wondered why so many articles and books talk about color theory and palettes…

We don’t live in a black and white world. From Pantone to Pinterest, color theory impacts the way we see and feel the world...

Using videos as background – a design trend that emerged a couple of years ago – continues to be the subject of much debate among designers. On the one hand,...

Tips for designing and building a consistent design system.

Andy Kirk looks at some neat techniques to achieve responsive CSS patterns while we wait for element and container queries to be available!

What if you could redesign everything? The Circular Design Guide is a collaboration between IDEO and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. It's an action-oriented set of methods, mindsets and thought starte…

Your freelance website can be more than just another portfolio. Turn it into a lead-driving machine with these simple, yet effective tips.

Height is often overlooked in responsive design. On mobile, pages can get pretty long. Should we address this?

Designlab is a part-time, online course that helps you improve your UI/UX design skills through 1-on-1 mentorship from an expert designer.

You want the best possible employees to your team, and it seems like the more skills that they have, the better candidate they are.

Using Chemistry + Design To Build Interfaces 🔬 🖌️ 🖥️

If you’ve been building websites and applications for even a little while, you’ve most likely already heard of progressive enhancement. The idea has been around since 2003, it’s one that is often conf…

How it works is more important than how it looks

The one piece of advice to instantly improve your design skills.

Nolan, who’s been leading a lot of our product design decisions, shared this idea in our Slack channel the other day as we reviewed our next product design iteration: One of the typical challenges…

How to make your navigation obvious and keep people engaged

Mobile-first is a standard for a reason, but don't let a dogmatic approach sacrifice creativity.

We take a look at the navigation elements that are making UIs easier to use this year.

Although navigation design is always going to be an ongoing debate, there are a few best practices that every user experience designer in 2017 should adhere to for website navigation. Stephanie Lim shows us a few to stand by!

Mobile-first is not specific enough to user needs. Learn more about journey-driven design and how it emerges from a user-centered approach.

See how you can design scalable, responsive logos without losing the very personality of your brand in this responsive logo design & branding guide!

Sparkbox is a team of web designers and developers based in the midwest and answering the call for a better web. Driven by a deep conviction in a web liberated from device constraints, Sparkbox leads the way toward a greater standard as we write, educate,

Component Based Design is often talked about in context of large, complex projects. In this post we’re making the case that it can also be…

Designlab is a part-time, online course that helps you improve your UI/UX design skills through 1-on-1 mentorship from an expert designer.