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Learn about the trends shaping the design industry, and find tips and inspiration for incorporating new design trends into your work.

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Creativity Hasn’t Left Web Design – It’s Just Different

Creativity Hasn’t Left Web Design – It’s Just Different

It sometimes feels like web design has lost its creative flair. Has it? Or have we changed how we use our creativity?

Do We Really Need to Follow Design Trends?

Do We Really Need to Follow Design Trends?

Designers love to complain about superficial design trends that they don’t feel have any staying power or contribute anything meaningful. Are they right?

How to Handle Indescribable Uniqueness in Design

How to Handle Indescribable Uniqueness in Design

We discuss weird and indescribable uniqueness in design, share how you can handle it, and whether or not it’s necessarily a good thing.

15+ Examples of Hand-Written Typography in Web Design

15+ Examples of Hand-Written Typography in Web Design

First impressions are often lasting ones. This applies to the world of web design just as much as it does to our “real” world. A hero image on a homepage…

Playing with Fire: Examples of Creating Flame Effects with Code

Playing with Fire: Examples of Creating Flame Effects with Code

Enhance your web design projects with these mesmerizing and realistic flame effects and animations using CSS, JavaScript, and SVG.

12 Fantastic Examples of Incorporating Lines in Web Design

12 Fantastic Examples of Incorporating Lines in Web Design

There are many tiny trends in web design these days. We have already discussed lonely but eye-catching mouse tails, manipulations of the mouse cursor and triangles as decor. Each month…

8 CSS & JavaScript Snippets That Celebrate Synthwave

8 CSS & JavaScript Snippets That Celebrate Synthwave

Put on your cool shades, pop up your shirt collar, and explore these super-rad CSS and JavaScript Synthwave code snippets.

10 Beautiful Business Cards with Holographic Effects for Inspiration

10 Beautiful Business Cards with Holographic Effects for Inspiration

Holographic foil business cards can be truly inspiring. They’re not just paper with intricate coloring but can create dimension and exude beautiful light.

The Web Design Hack Hall of Fame

The Web Design Hack Hall of Fame

We celebrate some of the most useful and creative web design hacks from the past few years. They all, in one way or the other, helped push the boundaries of the web.

The Bright Side of an Increasingly Homogeneous Web

The Bright Side of an Increasingly Homogeneous Web

We discuss the positive effects of a more consolidated web and examine what this means for the web design community as a whole.

How No-Code Tools Disrupt the Design Process

How No-Code Tools Disrupt the Design Process