Every day design fans submit incredible industry stories to our sister-site, Webdesigner News. Our colleagues sift through it, selecting the very best stories from the design, UX, tech, and development worlds and posting them live on the site. The best way to keep up with the most important stories for web professionals is to subscribe […] The post Popular Design News of the Week: November 22, 2021 - November 28, 2021 first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

I had lots of fun producing my free pirate themed vector graphics pack a few months ago. Recently I’ve been indulging in western movies, which inspired me to create a variety of assets for a Wild West graphics pack to share with Spoon Graphics readers. Use these ready-made illustrations and editable logo templates to quickly […] The post Free Wild West Vector Graphics & Logo Templates Pack appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

Over the past decade, there has been a seismic shift towards conversational interfaces. As people reach 'peak screen' and even begin to scale back their device usage with digital wellbeing features being baked into most operating systems. To combat screen fatigue, voice assistants have entered the market to become a preferred option for quickly retrieving information. A well-repeated stat states that 50% of searches will be done by voice in year 2020.

Beginners are often frustrated when they first get into photography. Most want to capture the types of photos that they see in magazine spreads, but that requires skill and experience. The good news is that there are ways that even beginners can capture photos that are more professional-looking and stand

Partially visually hidden link names may be good for people who use screen readers, but they can be problematic for those who rely on voice control software. Here's a suggestion on how to solve this.

One of the most important aspects of pitching your startup is the presentation. In fact, it's your pitch deck that'll do most of the talking during your presentation. These startup pitch deck PowerPoint templates can make all the difference! It goes to say that your startup pitch deck needs to be more than perfect for […]

Every week is a learning week and this week I was reminded that viewport units are not all good to use. Also, choosing the right HTTP status code can be difficult and may not even be supported by the Apache version running on your server. I also learned how JavaScript error logging can be extended so that you can finally get easy-to-read and useful reports. As if that wasn't enough, I learned a lot about accessibility and progressive enhancement again, and discovered a slidedeck on how you can bypass CSP and why browsers can render elements with known boundaries as well as layout limitations incredibly faster than unknown. Are you ready? It's now your turn to learn all of this as well.The post Web Development Reading List #144: CSP Mistakes, JS Debugging And Failure Testing appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Markdown is a lightweight text markup language that allows the marked text to be converted to various formats. The original goal of creating Markdown was of enabling people “to write using an easy-to-read and easy-to-write plain text format and to optionally convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). Currently, with WordPress supporting Markdown, the format has become even more widely used. The purpose of writing the article is to show you how to use Node.

The problem with stock photos has always been that they are never quite what you envision. The new Photo Creator tool from Icons8 solves that dilemma. This neat tool actually allows you to create stock photos with elements that you can choose, move, and place inside a basic scene. The result is a "semi-stock" photo […]

Are you delighted when your favorite online shop makes a wonderful suggestion for an item you didn't know about? How about when your cart is stored even if you log off for a while? If so, you are just like many other users that like and have come to expect personalized web experiences. Personalization extends […]