Every day design fans submit incredible industry stories to our sister-site, Webdesigner News. Our colleagues sift through it, selecting the very best stories from the design, UX, tech, and development worlds and posting them live on the site. The best way to keep up with the most important stories for web professionals is to subscribe […] The post Popular Design News of the Week: August 9 2021 A...

Illustration is a big trend in 2021. Every designer should have some ability to illustrate, whether thats producing icons, creating lettering, mocking up layouts, or crafting full-blown illustrations. Designers workflows are as varied as their work, and one designers favorite tool is a frustrating mess to the next designer. Most design apps have a free […] The post Ranked: Top 10 Illustration App...

The world of web design is incredibly dynamic. Every year, new trends and opportunities emerge, primarily driven by the arrival of modern technology. In recent years, weve seen various updates to the web design landscape, such as the arrival of AR and VR solutions for making mixed media. Video content has increased in quality, while […] The post Designing UI for the Voice Era first appeared on We...

Ready to take your business online but not sure where to start? Its a surprisingly simple process, made all the easier by the tagDiv Newspaper theme that can shoulder the burden of code, leaving you to be creative. Professional web designers normally begin with broad brushstrokes, roughly hewing a site, before finessing on the finer […] The post Build Your Site The Easy Way With TagDiv Newspaper ...

Its almost time for another season of change. Although the temperatures might not reflect it, this is the time of year where most of us start thinking about whats next. This collection of tools and resources for designers is just the spark to propel you forward with work as you think ahead. Heres whats new […] The post Exciting New Tools For Designers, August 2021 first appeared on Webdesigner De...

A weekly selection of design links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.Wait, do you really want to become a design manager? As part of the mentorship sessions I have been running for the past couple years, one question frequently comes up: What do I have to do to become a design manager?The question often comes from designers who have been at a Senior level for some time, now loo...

Every month we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist whos one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world […] The post Comics for Designers #441 first appeared ...

After shutting down our first design system late 2018 we built a new and improved design system from the ground up.Back in 2018, when I started my job at WebNL, I was asked to look into ways to improve the bridge between design and development within our company. I came up with a system that automatically extracted design tokens from Sketch designs and translated them into SCSS variables. This wa...