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Google’s Willow and the Quantum Menace: A Design Perspective | Web Designer Depot
When Google announced its new quantum computing marvel, the Willow chip, the tech world buzzed with excitement. Capable of solving problems in seconds that would take classical supercomputers millennia, Willow promises to revolutionize fields from healthcare to logistics. But for those in design and technology, Willow raises profound questions about security, ethics, and the future…
10 Free Resources for Web Designers, January 2025 | Web Designer Depot
Everyone loves to work smarter. This list of free resources for web designers will help you find tools, themes, fonts, and other resources that can make design and development faster and more efficient. Starting this month, we’ll post a monthly collection of these tools to help you design better. Enjoy! 1. Portfolio X – Free…
How ProductHunt.com Became Overrun with AI Products | Web Designer Depot
If you’ve ever been a fan of Product Hunt, you probably remember the excitement of finding something genuinely cool—a new app, a fresh productivity tool, or a clever gadget that made you think, Wow, I didn’t know I needed this! For years, it was the go-to place to discover the latest in tech and innovation….
Evolving Usability: Advanced Heuristics for Pro-Level Interfaces | Web Designer Depot
In the world of User Experience (UX) design, Jakob Nielsen’s 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design have long been the cornerstone for crafting intuitive, user-friendly digital interfaces. These principles—spanning visibility of system status, match between the system and the real world, user control, and error prevention—are as foundational to UX as grammar is to…
40 Best New Websites, 2024 | Web Designer Depot
As regular readers will know, each month we roundup the best new designs of the previous 4 weeks. And now, at the end of the year, we’ve selected our 40 favourites from the monthly collections. All the sites chosen stand out in some way, whether that’s through the approach to a design problem, embracing a…
How Airlines Leverage UX (and Dark Patterns) to Monetize Seat Selection | Web Designer Depot
In the world of advanced UX strategy, few industries demonstrate the power of persuasive (and often problematic) design better than the airline industry. Airlines have transformed what was once a basic feature—seat selection—into a $12.4 billion revenue stream, all by reimagining the booking experience with deliberate, revenue-first design decisions. This isn’t just about clever marketing….
The 30 Best Fonts of 2024 | Web Designer Depot
2024 has been a great year for type design. Over the past few years geometric sans have been less apparent, with cursive and serifs having something of a renaissance; that trend continued this year. There’s been a very clear fashion for French design. Experimental fonts are more usable than ever. Here — in no particular…