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Confessions of a Web Design Generalist (a.k.a. The Person Who Does Literally Everything)

Web design’s real MVPs aren’t specialists—they’re the generalists quietly doing everything. These multitasking heroes hold the internet together with duct tape and Google searches. This is your gloriously chaotic love letter to the people who do it all.

Flexbox vs CSS Grid: How Do They Compare?

Flexbox and Grid are the two layout systems that define modern CSS. At first glance, they seem similar. Both handle rows and columns, manage alignment and spacing, and replace the old float-and-table workarounds. The real difference is in how they… Continue Reading →

Exciting New Tools for Designers, September 2025

Web design tools that use artificial intelligence are still dominating new and beta launches, while hopefully making your workflows a little bit smoother. One of the most talked about launches this month is Google (Gemini’s) Nano Banana image generator tool,… Continue Reading →

Simplicity in Web Design? It’s All Smoke and Mirrors

Simplicity in web design is often hailed as the ultimate goal, but the truth is that it’s a myth that overlooks the complexity required to create functional, powerful designs. Great design isn’t about stripping things down to the bare minimum,… Continue Reading →

The Evolution of Web Design: From Pixel Art to AI-Generated Experiences

Web design has evolved from pixelated table layouts and Wacom tablet sketches to AI-generated, hyper-personalized experiences. As AI redefines creativity, designers aren’t being replaced—they’re becoming directors of a new, smarter web.

20 Footer Design Myths You’re Still Believing (And How to Fix Them

Footers are usually treated like the website’s leftover salad—tossed together with whatever’s left and shoved to the bottom. But here’s the truth: footers can be the secret sauce to boosting user engagement and conversions! With a little creativity and a… Continue Reading →

Designing Travel: The Zürich Card’s Flexible New Visual Identity

Forget boring tourist passes: the new Zürich Card is a masterclass in Swiss design. Clean typography, modular grids, and a shape-shifting card motif make it a pocket-sized identity system.

AI by the Numbers: How It Took Over Web Design & Development in 2025

In 2025, AI has gone from sidekick to co-creator in web design and development. 93% of designers use it daily, 91% of developers generate code with it, and Big Tech says 30%+ of new code is machine-written. —proof that the… Continue Reading →

What Is HSL And Why Designers Should Master It

Color is one of the most powerful tools in a designer’s toolkit, but working with traditional systems like hex and RGB can sometimes feel limiting. These formats work, but they don’t reflect how we actually see or think about color…. Continue Reading →

What Is Flexbox (And Why You Should Use It)

You can build clean sections all day, but aligning elements across every screen size can start to feel more like trial and error than intentional design. Flexbox fixes that. It gives you real control over how elements sit, stretch, shrink, and… Continue Reading →

Web Design & Web Development Salaries Around the World in 2025

In 2025, web design and development paychecks are more about impact than job titles — and the global salary gap is staggering. From $190k U.S. AI gigs to $15k local roles in Southeast Asia, the numbers show exactly where skills… Continue Reading →

10 “Fresh” Design Trends We Shamelessly Stole From the Past

Every “fresh” design trend you love is probably stolen—from Soviet posters to 80s neon, from Bauhaus to Blade Runner. We’re not inventing; we’re remixing. Here’s the proof that today’s hottest web aesthetics are just yesterday’s styles in shinier packaging.

Understanding Relative Colors In Web Design

In web design, even the simplest decisions can multiply. What starts as a single design choice quickly expands into dozens of visual variations for interactions, backgrounds, borders, and more. Your build can become cluttered with mismatched values and manual tweaks… Continue Reading →

Quickest Ways To Update Your Page Design With Divi 5

Divi 5 introduces a handful of smart new tools to help you work faster and design more freely. But with so much power at your fingertips, it’s easy to feel unsure about where to start, especially when updating an existing layout…. Continue Reading →

Exciting New Tools for Designers, August 2025

Our roundup of exciting new tools for designers is a smorgasbord of options, from open source editors to artificial intelligence tools are designed to speed up creative workflows. Most of the tools hitting the market right now include some AI… Continue Reading →

Your A/B Tests Are Lying to You! The Myth of Data Driven Design

A/B testing isn’t the ultimate truth in design—it’s often a flawed experiment with misleading results and false confidence. Instead of obsessing over data noise, designers should prioritize real user insights and meaningful design decisions.

The Flexibility Of Extending To Different Element Types In Divi 5

Making design updates shouldn’t feel like checking boxes. But too often, even something simple, like changing a button style or updating a font, means editing each module manually. It’s slow, repetitive, and easy to mess up. Divi 5 fixes that… Continue Reading →

The Rise and Fall of the Web Mascot: Where Did They Go?

Web design once thrived on quirky mascots that made brands feel fun and approachable, but they’ve largely disappeared, replaced by soulless minimalism and corporate sameness. As startups prioritized looking “serious” over having personality, we lost the weird, charming creatures that… Continue Reading →

Skeleton Screens Are Just Gray Lies We Tell Ourselves

Skeleton screens aren’t clever UX anymore—they’re just visual duct tape over slow, bloated apps. In 2025, users see through the shimmering gray lies, and it’s time we stop pretending they work. If your site needs skeletons, maybe what it really… Continue Reading →

Nobody Waits for Your Fancy Animations Anymore (And They Never Really Did)

Everyone’s obsessed with animations and parallax effects in 2025—but guess what? Nobody’s watching. Users don’t wait. It’s time we stop designing for Dribbble clout and start designing for real people.

Dear Hamburger Menu: It’s Not the ’90s Anymore

The hamburger menu had its moment—but now it’s just a cryptic little sandwich hiding everything users actually need. This sarcastic love letter exposes how the once-innovative icon became the Houdini of UX, vanishing critical navigation with three innocent lines. If… Continue Reading →

Exciting New Tools for Designers, July 2025 - Web Designer Depot

Summer is here, and designers are buzzing about the upcoming Apple release, design changes, and trends that are coming with it. The biggest being a glass effect. You’ll see some new tools for designers in this roundup that reflect that… Continue Reading →

Dear Rounded Corners, You Win - Web Designer Depot

Rounded corners didn’t just win—they staged a quiet coup and made our interfaces soft, friendly, and suspiciously comforting. This satirical love-hate letter to border-radius explores how we went from brutalist boxes to UI that feels like a therapy session. If… Continue Reading →

The 7 Stages of Pushing Pixels: From Hope to Existential Dread - Web Designer Depot

If you often just obsessively nudge pixels until your sanity starts to fray… This painfully relatable (and slightly unhinged) journey through the 7 stages of pushing pixels is for you! If you’ve ever cried over a 0.5px misalignment, this one’s… Continue Reading →

AI Didn’t Kill Web Design —Templates Did It First - Web Designer Depot

The web isn’t dying because of AI—it’s drowning in a sea of templates. Platforms like Squarespace, Wix, and Shopify have made building a site easier than ever—but at the cost of creativity, originality, and soul. If every website looks the… Continue Reading →

A Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Shortcodes - Pagely Blog

Looking to add some slick features to your WordPress site but don’t want to wrestle code? Good news! That’s where shortcodes come in, little gems like or [contact-form] tucked in square brackets. These simple bracketed commands enable site owners to… Continue Reading →

Stop Using Hero Images! They’re Killing Your UX - Web Designer Depot

Hero images are the web’s prettiest dead weight—slow, vague, and visually overused. It’s time to stop decorating your homepage and start saying something that actually matters.

Editing Code Directly in WordPress: A Guide to HTML, CSS, and a Touch of PHP - Pagely Blog

Have you ever wanted to tweak your WordPress site just a bit, like change a button’s color or adjust a page’s layout? WordPress is great for building sites without coding, thanks to its easy dashboard and endless themes and plugins…. Continue Reading →

Dear Loading Spinner, We Need to Talk - Web Designer Depot

Tired of watching the loading spinner do its little dance of despair? This brutally honest breakup letter to everyone’s least favorite UI element calls out the lies, the stalling, and the silent screams behind every infinite loop. If you’ve ever… Continue Reading →

Web Design Will Become the Art of Profiling the User - Web Designer Depot

The next evolution of web design isn’t about looks — it’s about knowing you better than you know yourself. Get ready for a future where websites don’t just personalize your experience — they profile your soul in real-time. Creepy? Absolutely…. Continue Reading →

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