Whether you’re a Google Superfan or just love a great wallpaper, we hope you use and enjoy these free birthday patterns for your Pixel phone.

Emoji Kitchen has just hit Google Search, enabling everyone to cook up their own weird and wonderful emoji mashups. With a vast selection of emojis to choose from, users select the two icons they’d like to combine and the tool serves up a custom emoji, and as you can imagine, some of the results are suitably strange.

Rotating parallax sliders are a popular way to display content. They are most commonly positioned in the so-called Hero section and are tasked with presenting content in an interesting manner and capturing the visitors’ attention for the product you are selling at first glance.

Even if you love typography, your view of it may be blinkered by geographic and historical filters. This new project provides a glimpse into Canadian type history from 1752-1985… and that’s just the start.  

A clever new app called Slingshot is combining the serendipity of BeReal snaps with the friends-only photo sharing popularized by apps like Snapchat. But while the app’s inspirations are familiar, the way you interact with Slingshot offers something unique.

Want to create appealing graphic designs to market your business or increase social streams? Explore CapCut’s AI-powered free photo editor and start with free ready-to-use templates.

Firefly-powered features like Photoshop’s Generative Fill tool are now out of beta. Adobe is also introducing a new bonus scheme to pay its stock contributors for helping to train its AI models.

Three hover effects based on a grid design by Alena Orlova.

When browsing for web design inspiration from Japan with the web design galleries that I previously introduced, I found a few design characteristics that are truly unique in Japan and not commonly seen in English-based website. Without further ado, let’s dive into it.

Picking and pairing fonts really well is hard. It takes a lot of time too, especially if you don’t have experience with it. Can AI tools help you do this task better and quicker? Can it teach you how to do it well, if you’re less experienced?