The last inspirational website of the week is Constance Souville’s lovely portfolio which boasts a visually appealing and distinctive design with engaging details.

Outlook’s key design challenge is that of many heritage products: how do you chart a path forward that modernizes a beloved product, while also honoring its legacy and maintaining familiarity for the millions of people who rely on it?

If you are happily avoiding producing full-blown illustrations with these tools, there are plenty of more ethical, smaller ways to include them in your process for a product or web design.

Microsoft Paint has always been there for us, so when I heard the ‘Microsoft Designer’ announcement, there was a natural excitement. Combine that with AI, and the hype was real – Microsoft are bringing AI to the masses! Not only with Microsoft Designer, but they’re sprinkling AI onto many Microsoft products.

Design critiques, also called “crits”, are one of those feedback-focused design rituals that feel so essential to the design process. When done well, they help us improve our design, avoid blind spots, explore new angles, and create higher-quality work.

Build healthy technology habits with a mindful approach to internet browsing, encourages self-accountability, and automatically start Pomodoro whenever you visit your focus sites.

Expect the tech to go more mainstream—and to see heightened scrutiny from regulators.

In this post, we’ll take a look at some of the fresh resources for our fellow web developers to stay ahead of the curve and start the new year off right. This includes a host of new JavaScript, PHP, HTML, JS, and CSS libraries, plus a breakthrough in WordPress.

Space is one of the core elements in design that is often overlooked. Proper spatial organization helps to achieve consistency between screens, pages, or even products. It also creates visual rhythm, limits decision-making, and helps to achieve better readability and scannability. In this guide, Paul Matvienko discusses the basics of defining a spatial system.

A micro-interaction is a small, focused interaction between a user and a product or service that serves a specific purpose or goal. Micro-interactions are often used to provide feedback, confirm actions, or guide users through a process.