The web design industry, like any other visual-related industry, changes constantly. What was considered cool five years ago, today testifies to the outdated vision of their creators.

Motion design can help guide the user through the experience. With the right use of movements, animations, and transitions we can make our product more intuitive, more humane, and generally clearer to use.

Many stakeholders don’t understand the value of UX design and see UX as non-essential or “nice-to-have”. It’s our responsibility as designers to advocate for ourselves and communicate the value of good UX design for a few reasons.

Google has announced that two of its latest privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), including one that blurs objects in a video, will be provided to anyone for free via open source. The new tools are part of Google’s Protected Computing initiative designed to transform “how, when and where data is processed to technically ensure its privacy and safety,” the company said.

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A couple of months ago I started reading about designers’ thoughts on design. As I was digging deeper, I found an index with more than 200 manifestos from all around the world, some of which were over 100 years old. I was struck by the way people talked about the transformative power of our field and how it shapes the world around us, so I decided to read them all…

We’ve started making a tradition of rounding up the latest front-end research at the end of each year. We did it in 2020 and again in 2021. Reports are released throughout the year by a bunch of different companies and organizations researching everything from web design trends to developer skills to popular coding languages and so many other things.

Conversational UX requires a big-picture understanding of the landscape of both the frontstage, or what a recipient of a service sees, and the backstage, the behind-the-scenes work happening to generate their experience. It’s the interaction layer on top of an ecosystem that incorporates a range of device types. Wearables, intelligent assistants, augmented or virtual reality -you name it. The idea is not to confine design to an interface, but to…

The website CyclingTips had observed the furore around the new technology and decided to put it to the test, asking several AI models to generate images of cycling-related scenes. Close your eyes now if you want to avoid a horror show. Some of the results look like the aftermath of a particularly horrendous Tour de France pile up (to learn how the tech works, see our guide to how to…

Massimo Vignelli, the multi-faceted designer and thinker, was the last of the great modernist designers. A utilitarian, design reactionary, and vocal critic of poor design, his views feel unfashionable today, yet, younger designers can learn much from the Canon.