Latest stories

3 Essential Design Trends, August 2023

There’s an overall movement in website design right now where there are no dominant hero image or video on the homepage. Look at some of your most visited websites, and you might see this trend in action. You’ll surely see it among the three other trends we explore in website design here.

Recreating YouTube’s Ambient Mode Glow Effect

Discover with Adrian what’s behind the charming glow effect on Youtube and how you can use it to make your own videos more immersive. Deconstruct YouTube’s “Ambient Mode” feature and learn how HTML <canvas> and the requestAnimationFrame function are used to create this glowing effect.

Twitter’s rebrand to X is destined to fail, critics say

Tech companies can’t compel people to change what they call platforms. Ask Facebook.

Generative AI Experiments with Midjourney

One of our recent favorites is a series of experiments utilizing a generative AI tool called Midjourney. With the uncanny ability to turn imagination into reality, this tool interprets prompts based on popular movies such as The Warriors or iconic video games like Final Fight, generating detailed, vivid images that exceed expectations.

Does X mark the spot? How the creative industry feels about Twitter’s rebrand

As we say goodbye to Twitter and its famous blue bird today, how does the design industry feel about the rebrand? Is it the final nail in the coffin for the social network? A colossal branding disaster? Or the start of a much-needed new chapter? We asked the creative community for their thoughts.  

Musk’s Twitter Rebranding as X Is Off to a Confusing, Haphazard Start

Over the weekend, Elon Musk issued the unexpected fiat via late-night/early-morning tweetstorm (x-storm?) that Twitter would now be known as X — complete with a new X logo that has replaced the bonny blue birdie on the service’s website.

Figma isn’t making you a bad designer

You like pen and paper, I like Figma. We’re both great designers.

How to find your forgotten Gmail accounts

With Google planning to delete any unused two-year-old accounts, it’s a good idea to see if you’ve forgotten any from way back when.

‘Designed by Apple in California’

Book design documenting past and current Apple products through 450 photographs.

Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible

In recent news, Google has put forth a proposal known as the “Web Environment Integrity Explainer”, authored by four of its engineers. On the surface, it appears to be a comprehensive effort to enhance trust and security in the digital landscape. However, as with many sweeping technological proposals, it’s not without controversy.

1 2 217 218 219 220 221 396 397

Submit an article

You can submit new articles related to web design / development, UX, apps and graphic design. No homepage submissions, no spammy affiliate links will be accepted.
Title
URL

Thank you!

Thanks for submitting your story. We will review it and approve it if relevant.