Common SEO Myths & Misconceptions

Common SEO Myths & Misconceptions

Web Design

There isn’t a day that goes by that I hear from a client something they have heard about SEO that isn’t even close to the truth. It seems there are…

The Guide To UX Design Process & Documentation

The Guide To UX Design Process & Documentation

UX Design

Documentation is instrumental for concepting, designing, creating and measuring the performance of products. But it shouldn’t be done just for the sake of maintenance. After all, there’s nothing about a…

Collaboration Between Designers and Copywriters

Collaboration Between Designers and Copywriters

Design / Freelance

Once upon a time, the assembly line revolutionized productivity. Instead of one worker or a small team performing all the steps to create a product, each person specialized in one…

What UX Designers Can Learn From Disaster Design

What UX Designers Can Learn From Disaster Design

UX Design

As long as there have been humans living in groups, there have been warning systems. Warnings for fire, for bad weather, calls for help from injured members of the group,…

Writing Good CSS

Writing Good CSS

CSS

I’m always trying to learn new things. However, I also try to learn ways to improve the way I already do things. Both at my full-time gig and for client…

7 Ways to Come up with Creative Ideas, Backed by Psychology

7 Ways to Come up with Creative Ideas, Backed by Psychology

Design / Freelance

They’re the kinds of problems you can’t seem to think your way out of. Whether it’s a unique layout for your site, a concept for a blog post, or an…

Critical Mistakes To Avoid When Quoting A Web Design Project

Critical Mistakes To Avoid When Quoting A Web Design Project

Design / Freelance

Striking out on your own as a freelance designer can be incredibly exciting and rewarding, but to be successful, designers who go this route must hone much more than their…

How the Foundation Framework Pushed the Web Forward over the Last Five Years

How the Foundation Framework Pushed the Web Forward over the Last Five Years

CSS

One of the most divisive issues in the web design community has been the use of frameworks. Front-end frameworks are collections of HTML, CSS and JavaScript that make up common…

Selecting the Best Format for Image Content

Selecting the Best Format for Image Content

Web Design

When it comes to adding images to a website, most developers have several formats to choose from – JPEG, JPEG-XR, PNG, WebP and GIF to name a few. But determining…

Common Mistakes When Presenting Design Ideas to Clients, and How to Avoid Them

Common Mistakes When Presenting Design Ideas to Clients, and How to Avoid Them

Web Design

You’ve spent weeks working on a client design, churned through the requisite nine terrible designs to get to that lone good one, tested iterations with the team and with your…

Some Ideas for Maintaining Your Freelance Mental Drive

Some Ideas for Maintaining Your Freelance Mental Drive

Freelance

If you’re reading this article and you work from home, it probably won’t be much surprise to you that one of the hardest elements to master is the ability to…

Multichannel Marketing 101: What Is It and Why You Need It

Multichannel Marketing 101: What Is It and Why You Need It

Marketing

Our means of doing marketing has come a long way. Today, there are plenty of different approaches marketers can use when it comes to advancing their products or service. Emerging…

Shifting Focus from Startup UX to Enterprise UX

Shifting Focus from Startup UX to Enterprise UX

UX Design

So you’ve spent your days working at an agency whose primary clientele are startups, and you’ve grown accustomed to the process. You like your fresh office cookies, the medium roast…

Combine the Best of Both Worlds with Material Design for Bootstrap Sponsored

Combine the Best of Both Worlds with Material Design for Bootstrap

Web Design

Material Design has become a popular topic of discussion in the design community of late. And we’re starting to see it implemented in sites across the web. The trouble is,…

Avoiding Generation Loss with Web Images

Avoiding Generation Loss with Web Images

Web Design

Everyone knows what happens if you make a photocopy of a photocopy: The quality deteriorates with each subsequent copy. This phenomenon is called “generation loss.” In theory, digital images shouldn’t…

How to Speak up to Your Clients When They Just Won’t Listen

How to Speak up to Your Clients When They Just Won’t Listen

Freelance

In 1996, I was an 18 year old web designer. Fresh out of high school, I was a bit shy and not very eloquent when expressing myself verbally. My first…

Typical Oversights When Designing for Print

Typical Oversights When Designing for Print

Design / Freelance / Print & Graphic Design

It is this crucial aspect that many designers forget to consider when designing for print. There are a number of problems that may pop up which can make your final…

Corporate learning: How to make it work on mobile

Corporate Learning: How to Make It Work on Mobile

Web Design
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