Choosing the tone of voice for a digital product’s copy is crucial to creating a consistent and engaging user experience. Product teams come in all shapes and forms, but they often don’t have a dedicated UX writer. As a result, writing the UI texts might happen on the fly, and the final result does not always support users best. https://webdesignernews.com/finding-your-products-voice-strategies-for-effective-ux-copy/
Free tools are essential for any web developer’s toolkit, especially for those on a budget or looking to enhance their skills without incurring costs. These tools help developers save money while providing access to critical features and resources that boost productivity and creativity. https://webdesignernews.com/best-free-tools-for-web-developers/
We combined an image-to-text that analyses and understands images, generating description, with a text-to-speech model to create an audio description, helping people with sight challenges. https://webdesignernews.com/transforming-images-into-spoken-words-with-ai/
View Transitions are one of the most awesome features CSS has shipped in recent times. Its title is self-explanatory: transitions between views are possible with just CSS, even across pages of the same origin! What’s more interesting is its subtext, since there is no need to create complex SPA with routing just to get those eye-catching transitions between pages. https://webdesignernews.com/why-css-view-transitions-are-revolutionizing-web-design/
Influencer marketing is one of the most powerful and most effective forms of digital marketing available today. https://webdesignernews.com/7-key-influencer-marketing-trends-in-2024/
August 2024 brings us a collection of new tools, libraries, and resources to help you build better websites and applications, and improve your productivity as designers and developers. We’ve got everything from design inspiration to development tools, and everything in between. https://webdesignernews.com/fresh-resources-for-web-designers-and-developers/
Recently I took a trip down memory lane and explored my logo design archives from the ‘90s. I’ve been designing logos since then—almost 30 years ago, before the internet was even a thing. In this article, I’ve gathered some of those early logo designs, along with background information from the client projects I’ve worked on over the past three decades. https://webdesignernews.com/lessons-from-my-30-year-logo-design-archive-then-vs-now/
Collaboration between design and engineering can take different forms in different organizations. Designers can be more or less involved in software development, but whether they like it or not, they are essential to this process. I don’t mean that designers should code (although I think some should–I’ll explain it in another article), but rather, they should not switch to new tasks right after handoff. https://webdesignernews.com/the-essential-role-of-designers-in-the-full-software-development-
align-content works in the default layout in 2024, allowing vertical centering with 1 CSS property. https://webdesignernews.com/css-finally-adds-vertical-centering-in-2024/