You can ship a lot of “smart” UI this year while quietly making it less trustworthy, less coherent, and harder to operate.

Working solo is one of the benefits of being a freelance web designer. You don’t have a boss breathing down your neck or tracking every mouse click. That’s one reason why many of us choose this career path.

Design systems have evolved from static libraries to key drivers of business revenue, customer loyalty, and product strategy. Here’s what you need to know about how to track and communicate the value of your design system, based on new research from the Design Executive Council (DXC).

Free heavy and ultra-bold fonts are the fastest way to make a headline, poster, or thumbnail punch through the noise—without burning your budget or fighting licensing fine print.

CSS relative colour values are now widely supported. In this article, pioneering author and web designer Andy Clarke shares practical techniques for using them to theme and animate SVG graphics.

You know that feeling when you have this amazing app idea in your head, but the journey from “cool concept” to “actual working thing” feels like climbing Mount Everest in flip-flops? Yeah, I’ve been there. Multiple times.

We’re nearing the end of a transformative year for Dribbble, during which we reinvented ourselves as a revenue-sharing marketplace and delivered hundreds of thousands of leads – billions of dollars in opportunity – and millions of dollars in payouts to the service providers on our platform.

In this roundup, we’ve gathered a selection of open-source and free utilities designed to boost productivity, streamline tasks, improve your coding experience and your browsing privacy.

Your senior management is excited about AI. They’ve read the articles, attended the webinars, and seen the demos. They’re convinced that AI will transform your organization, boost productivity, and give you a competitive edge.

The UI design industry has completely changed. In 2026 we will be seeing more vibe-coding platforms venture into the UI design and visual design space – a space dominated by tools like Figma.