Illustration is a big trend in 2021. Every designer should have some ability to illustrate, whether thats producing icons, creating lettering, mocking up layouts, or crafting full-blown illustrations. Designers workflows are as varied as their work, and one designers favorite tool is a frustrating mess to the next designer. Most design apps have a free […] The post Ranked: Top 10 Illustration App...

Rather than spring cleaning, do some spring shopping for tools that will make your design life easier. Packed with free options this month, this list is crammed full of tools and elements that you can use in your work every day. Heres what new for designers this month: Aprils Top Picks Charts.css Charts.css makes creating […] The post 25 Exciting New Tools For Designers, April 2021 first appeared...

Every month we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist whos one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world […] The post Comics for Designers #441 first appeared ...

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: April 12, 2021 ...

A weekly selection of design links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.Wait, do you really want to become a design manager? As part of the mentorship sessions I have been running for the past couple years, one question frequently comes up: What do I have to do to become a design manager?The question often comes from designers who have been at a Senior level for some time, now loo...

We dont have to remind anyone about the dramatic changes we all experienced in 2020. What we can tell you though, is that digital design and creative industries are going to benefit from the shift towards digital. Regardless of industry, every business will need to update and define its digital presence and designers can help...

Having a design portfolio online for your potential clients to browse through is important. If you need a web portfolio up and running in no time, this roundup of free online portfolio hosting sites has 15 options for you to consider. The post 8 Free Portfolio Websites (and 3 Paid Platforms) for Creatives appeared first on WebFX Blog.

After shutting down our first design system late 2018 we built a new and improved design system from the ground up.Back in 2018, when I started my job at WebNL, I was asked to look into ways to improve the bridge between design and development within our company. I came up with a system that automatically extracted design tokens from Sketch designs and translated them into SCSS variables. This wa...