Design principles are guidelines that designers follow to create aesthetically pleasing and functional designs. These principles can be applied to a wide range of design disciplines, including graphic design, interior design, architecture, and product design. Some common design principles include balance, contrast, hierarchy, unity, and simplicity.

Web Design Museum exhibits over 2,000 carefully selected and sorted web sites that show web design trends between the years 1991 and 2006.

App design is no easy feat, but these hand-picked works by leading UIand app designers provide the perfect source of creative inspiration. Let their remarkable mobile and web designs be your guide!

Currently going wild on Reddit, the ads depict close-up shots of people wearing seatbelts. Adorning their chests is their date of birth and, presumably, death – with the latter covered by the seatbelt. Because it saved their life, of course! (Looking for more inspiration? Check out the best print ads of all time.)

AI is here. What will it bring? Is it the end of the design field? I can only tell you one thing: don’t be afraid.

Imagine — you have two illustrations with the same meaning but different style at your disposal and you have to decide which one is better. How would you do it? Do you decide by yourself or by user’s opinion? And even if you include users in the process, how would you interpret their decisions?

A wireframe in web design is a schematic structure of a future page or screen. Usually, web designers use only one color and its shades to implement it. At the same time, details such as images and text are absent. Below we propose to understand the need for wireframes, as well as the principles and tips for their use.

Defining the identity of iA Presenter next to iA Writer was a three-year process that went hand-in-hand with the UI development. Design takes time. Here is how it went, what we learned, how far we got, and what you get in return.

A Curated Collection of AI-generated Abstract 3D Shapes

There are many ways of working on a computer — but some are faster than others. And for us designers, every second saved by working faster is that much more time to do the things that we love. In this article, Ashish Bogawat shares some of his favorite ways how to boost productivity and do things faster by using efficient tools and workflows.