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AIGA Eye On Design article that describes how designers are falsely motivated to duplicate others’ work because of fear of failure and their desire to be accepted. Read more

While browsing through the discussions on the Shopify Community website, I came across a few posts from people requesting feedback on their new stores and felt inclined to offer some helpful advice. Read more

I’ve always avoided terms like “click here” or “click below” on any interactive element, and now that I’m doing more accessible design work, avoidance of these things is so important. This article by Stark explains why. Read more

I recently switched my website from using a .com.au domain to a .design instead. Here’s why. Read more

I’m not sure why anybody, developer or not, would want to turn off/hide scrollbars on a desktop. This macOS setting has always puzzled me. Read more

The BBC Sport website just marked their 20th anniversary by publishing this article describing the all the design changes the site has gone through. Read more

All of Dieter Rams’s “Ten Principles for Good Design” are just as important today than when he said this back in the late 70’s. He asked himself the key question “is my design good design?”, which lead to his ten principles. Read more

When I first started in design over 20 years ago, I would go straight into Fireworks or Photoshop and begin composing the look and feel of the website without much thought about content or messaging. I guess this is how web design was back in those days. Read more

There’s over 100 CSS colour names, most of which are unknown. You can find all of them here. Read more