Check out a new dashboard built with Tailwind CSS and Flowbite featuring over 60 pages including a calendar page, kanban board, AI prompting, chatroom, and more.

More people than ever are using design in their daily work. By making our tools and processes more inclusive, we can empower everyone to practice design with confidence—regardless of their title.

For some time I’ve been working towards building a graphical code editor from scratch.

Designing a website is more than creating something that looks visually appealing. It is about balancing aesthetics with functionality, ensuring the site meets its goals while offering an intuitive user experience. This guide walks you through the complete web design workflow, from the initial planning stages to the final moments of review and launch.

The principle of design variety states that multiple contrasting elements can capture user attention. This is based on the human desire to indulge and explore and the fear of missing out. Like all principles of design, variety isn’t inherently beneficial to users, but it’s a good rule of thumb to keep in mind when trying to capture their attention.

Whether it’s an entirely new startup or just another initiative in an already productized tool, I always ask three core questions that help better draw the picture before I plunge into the work. Of course, answering them will not reveal everything you need to complete the project, but they will surely set the initial scene. We must remember that design processes are never linear, and all the particular steps can’t be…

As a UX designer, your job is to make sure Web-site visitors have the best user experience possible. However, users are bound to make mistakes. Whether because of their being unfamiliar with your user interface, clicking something accidentally, or simply misinterpreting your instructions, mistakes are all but unavoidable.

Neumorphism (or “New Skeuomorphism”) is a design trend that aimed to blend realism with minimalism. It gave UI elements a soft, extruded look, making them look dimensional and flat simultaneously.

The Figma team has introduced three updates to frame presets in UI3, designed to enhance your design efficiency:

I love talking to students for their refreshing ambition. I spoke recently at the UW HCI program (thanks to my friend and host Douglas Pyle) and their energy was delightful. They imagine great projects in their future and can’t wait to get started. Yet we all know after a few years in the workforce, that joy often fades. What can we do to bring it back? Here is one way.