Forget the same safe fonts you see on every other website. These five independent foundries are making typography weird, expressive and impossible to ignore—and they might convince you to never reach for Inter again.
The Macintosh didn’t always smile. Susan Kare gave it one — and with a handful of black pixels, helped transform the computer from an intimidating machine into something that felt human. More than 40 years later, we’re still speaking the… Continue Reading →
A polished portfolio used to get you hired. Now AI makes polished work cheap, and clients want proof you can solve problems, communicate clearly, and deliver today.
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 photo into something that belongs on a 1980s terminal. You… Continue Reading →
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 million of them—dogs, holidays, car rides, bad concerts—and lets you fall into a random stranger’s… Continue Reading →
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 motion, AI, and team-friendly publishing tools.
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 wobbles its way into the digital age.
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, automatically catching the subtle differences AI coding agents leave behind before… Continue Reading →
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, art, and imagery for commercial use.
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 websites can finally be measured, and the results are public.
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 content, publishers finally have an easier way to tell AI companies where to… Continue Reading →
After 16 years, WordPress just killed one of its most recognizable traditions. The predictable “Twenty Something” default themes are history, and their replacement, Ipsum, signals a surprisingly different vision for what WordPress thinks a modern website should start with.
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.
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 the tools in their software—and start inventing them on… Continue Reading →
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, browser, and app platform, and web designers should be paying attention.
Firefox is getting its biggest makeover in years—but Mozilla has already backed away from some of its boldest ideas. Project Nova reveals what happens when modern design trends, millions of opinionated users, and the internet’s unstoppable obsession with rounded corners… Continue Reading →
Adobe is quietly testing a mysterious new web-based design tool called Project Oasis—and designers can apply to get inside. Details are scarce, the beta is under NDA, and Adobe isn’t showing much yet… which only makes us want in more.
The ampersand is nearly 2,000 years old. yet designers still can’t agree on what it should look like. From ancient Roman *et* to hundreds of wildly different & designs, the story behind typography’s favorite squiggle is stranger than you might… Continue Reading →
Canva isn’t just for presentations and social posts anymore. Nearly 1 million websites are now being published through Canva every month—and with 100+ new Visual Suite updates, web designers may want to start paying attention.
