Web Design Blog
Dark mode toggles are everywhere, but do users actually need them, or are designers designing for other designers? A growing UX debate is questioning whether that little…
Turn any photo into gloriously retro ASCII art — made entirely from letters, symbols, and tiny bits of chaos. This free tool turns your dog, face, logo, or worst holiday…
For decades, web designers obsessed over perfecting menus, tabs, and dropdowns. Now a single empty prompt box is quietly replacing them all. As AI turns websites into…
AI isn't killing web development—it’s killing the boring parts. The real winners won't be the people who can memorize another framework. They'll be the builders who can…
Before TikTok turned every moment into content, people uploaded shaky, pointless little iPhone videos to YouTube and forgot about them. This strange website found five…
Canva just made a much more serious play for professional designers: Affinity now brings design, photo editing, and layout into one free app, while Canva connects it to…
Nobody wants another app cluttering their phone—so why does every website keep begging us to install one? The web already perfected the experience: click, load, done…
A wonderfully weird typeface from 1973 has come back to life — and somehow it looks more at home in 2026 than ever. Meet Clippy, the retro font that bends, rocks and…
We spent 15 years filling our phones with apps. AI could make almost all of them invisible... and the death of apps may already be closer than anyone realizes.
AI can now build a UI in seconds, but that doesn't mean it built the UI you actually designed. A new Applitools integration turns Figma designs into visual baselines…
AI images are taking over stock libraries, but the human-made web isn't dead yet. We found 25 places where designers can still find incredible free, real photography…
Chrome can now measure exactly how obnoxious a website’s ads are, from how much of your screen they swallow to how much data and CPU time they burn. Those ad-stuffed…
Cloudflare just gave website owners a new weapon against AI crawlers: keep the search traffic, block the AI training. After years of watching bots consume the web’s…
After 16 years, WordPress just killed one of its most recognizable traditions. The predictable “Twenty Something” default themes are history, and their replacement…
Photoshop Elements is getting a serious AI upgrade, with Generative Expand, AI upscaling and a new assistant that helps you edit simply by describing what you want.
Apple moved key controls to the side of its new foldable iPhone to make them easier to reach — but easier for whom? The decision raises a surprisingly big UX question…
Figma is turning a wild idea into reality: instead of searching for the perfect plugin, you can just ask AI to build it. If this catches on, designers may stop choosing…
After 53 years working with type, Pat Lightizer got the ultimate retirement gift: her own font.
TikTok isn’t just hosting videos anymore—it’s quietly letting web-based experiences live inside the app. TikTok Minis could blur the line between social network…
Google is quietly testing a way to bring Search outside Chrome and directly on top of whatever app you’re using. It’s called Project Loom, and this little floating…
