13 lessons creatives wished they'd known earlier in their career
We’ve gathered essential tips from seasoned creatives to help you navigate your career with confidence, clarity and long-term success.
weeklyfoo #76 / 2025-03-17career
🎨 Design
13 professional fonts: Top business typefaces for a polished look
13 QR-Code Usability Guidelines
So obvious but good guidelines for QR code usability. And funny examples of how to not use QR codes.
weeklyfoo #20 / 2024-02-19qr
16 Lesser Known Accessibility Issues
21 UX strategies to maximize user engagement without exploitation
Discover the most effective behavioral design frameworks, learn how to drive daily active user growth and retention, and gain practical insights for developing sustainable, ethical strategies that keep your products engaging without becoming exploitative.
weeklyfoo #54 / 2024-10-14ux
35 Books Every Designer Should Read
There’s really a domain that just lists 35 books. Did I already mention that I love the internetz?
weeklyfoo #17 / 2024-01-28books
404 Creatives: Exploring the Artistry of 404 Error Page Design
404 Illustrations
5 Costly Branding Mistakes
50 fonts that will be popular with designers in 2024
58 rules for beautiful UI design
The right UI can elevate an application from functional to unforgettable, making the difference between a user who engages once and one who returns time and again.
weeklyfoo #15 / 2024-01-14uxui
7 Hottest UI Component Libraries of 2025 - Copy and Paste
8 exciting visual trends you should know about in 2024
9 Simple But Powerful UX Writing Tips for Designers in 2024
A look at the future of Midjourney
Accessible Numbers
Admire The Web
Daily web design inspiration from around the web specialising in minimal, clean and responsive websites.
weeklyfoo #45 / 2024-08-12inspiration
Algorithm-Driven Design
An accessible website won’t be beautiful… really?!
An HTML Switch Control
Animated backgrounds
A collection of looping 4K video backgrounds. Free to use for your next project.
weeklyfoo #2 / 2023-10-16backgroundanimated
Animation principles
Apple Device Icons
AppMotion
Art of Symbol
Avoid too light fonts in typography
Band Logo Fonts
Beautiful focus outlines
Anytime thought about customizing the default focus outlines?
weeklyfoo #59 / 2024-11-18cssfocus
bentogrids
Best Data Visualization Projects of 2024
Many datasets were analyzed and many charts were made this year. If I liked a project, it was on FlowingData. But only a handful can be the best. These are my favorite data visualization projects from 2024.
weeklyfoo #66 / 2025-01-06visualizations
Best Practices For Naming Design Tokens, Components And Variables
This post is dedicated to naming conventions, tips, and real-world examples that help you name things in a robust and flexible way.
weeklyfoo #35 / 2024-06-03design-tokens
Best Product Design Books
Better typography with text-wrap pretty
Support for text-wrap: pretty just shipped in Safari Technology Preview, bringing an unprecedented level of polish to typography on the web.
weeklyfoo #80 / 2025-04-14css
Box Shadows
Brand in Motion
Brands in Motion is an independent resource, showcasing the very best motion design in branding.
weeklyfoo #70 / 2025-02-03animations
Bring the Power of Motion with LottieFiles for Canva App
Burn your toast
Cal Sans
Cards for Humanity
cccolor
Changing Colors in an SVG Element Using CSS and JavaScript
Checkbox Interactions
Checkbox UI design: Best practices and examples
Using checkboxes the right way if you consider the best practices in this article.
weeklyfoo #18 / 2024-02-05checkboxes
Checklist Design
Choosing The Perfect Colour Palette For Your Website
Choosing the perfect icons for your typeface
A complete guide on how to pair icons and typefaces to create a consistent visual language.
weeklyfoo #28 / 2024-04-15icons
Clear patterns to establish a culture of craft
Twitter thread that describes observations made about teams in high quality products.
weeklyfoo #16 / 2024-01-22productsculture
Clicks is a BlackBerry-style iPhone keyboard case designed for creators
They already got me by the handles of the creators: MrMobile and CrackBerry
weeklyfoo #15 / 2024-01-14iphone
Color Claims
Color contrast accessibility tools with examples
Color Meanings
Competitive Usability Evaluations
Data on what works well or poorly on other sites saves you from implementing useless features and guides UX investments to features that your users need.
weeklyfoo #15 / 2024-01-14usabilityevaluations
Cookie Permissions 101
Cookie permissions need to follow the law and strike the balance between respecting user privacy and being user-friendly.
weeklyfoo #9 / 2023-12-03cookiesconsent
Crafting A Killer Brand Identity For A Digital Product
Create Outstanding Offboarding and Frictionless Experiences for Your Users
Started to think about how many offboardings are really bad
weeklyfoo #14 / 2024-01-07offboarding
Creating variations of icon styles
CSS relative color syntax
Create new colors based on another color’s channels and values.
weeklyfoo #2 / 2023-10-16csscolors
Dark
Dark Patterns Hall of Shame
Protect your online privacy and rights by learning about dark patterns and unethical designs. Stay informed and avoid manipulation in the digital world.
weeklyfoo #41 / 2024-07-14dar-patterns
Dead Simple Sites
The most minimal sites on the web, curated in one place.
weeklyfoo #21 / 2024-02-26minimalwebsites
Desigeist
Design better pagination
Design Isn’t Dead. You Sound Dumb
Design Principles
An open source collection of Design Principles and methods.
weeklyfoo #58 / 2024-11-11principles
Design Spells
Design system dilemmas: similar looks, different functions
Design Systems Database
Designer engagement report
Top 3 problems for designers - no research, no design strategy, and no career progression
weeklyfoo #36 / 2024-06-10career
Designer news is dead
For many years, it was the best place on the internet to discuss designing and building software.
weeklyfoo #19 / 2024-02-12designernews
Designing Better Reviews And Ratings UX (+ Checklist)
Designing for anyone
Designing For Gen Z: Expectations And UX Guidelines
There are many myths revolving around Gen Z and how they use tech. Time to take a look at actual behavior patterns that go beyond heavy use of social media.
weeklyfoo #58 / 2024-11-11ux
Designing Perfect Tabs
Designing profile, account, and setting pages for better UX
Disabled Buttons UX – Usability Issues and How to Avoid Them
Don’t Disable Form Controls
Just another usability and accessibility pro telling authors not to do the thing they continue to do.
weeklyfoo #20 / 2024-02-19buttonsdisable
drams
Framer components inspired by Dieter Rams’ design principles
weeklyfoo #21 / 2024-02-26components
Drawww
Drawww offers you significantly better drawing experience, powered by AI
weeklyfoo #14 / 2024-01-07ai
Dropbox redesigns its web interface and releases AI-powered Dash in open beta
DS events
durves.com
A tool for creating and exporting dot patterns for graphic designers, ui/ux and other visual professionals.
weeklyfoo #2 / 2023-10-16dot patterns
Emailspiration
The best emails, hand picked by the team building Audienceful.
weeklyfoo #9 / 2023-12-03emailstemplates
Enterprise UX - essential resources to design complex data tables
Read everything you need to know to design tables on enterpris level.
weeklyfoo #48 / 2024-09-02tables
Everything you need to know about Dev Mode
I’m a Figma consumer, but I’ve always wanted to learn more about Figmas Dev mode. That’s a great overview. Didn’t know there’s a VSCode extension to open Figma designs in VSCode.
weeklyfoo #18 / 2024-02-05figma
Everything You Need to Know About Responsive Logo Design
Logos need to work on smaller screens as well, and not just by shrinking the size.
weeklyfoo #14 / 2024-01-07logos
Experimental On-Scroll Text Animations with SVG Clip-Path
F-Shape Pattern And How Users Read
Features of your font you had no idea about
Footer
Fountn
Fun fatigue – is formality returning in branding?
Amid faltering public trust and a flood of AI slop, Mother Design’s Alec Mezzetti asks if brands are abandoning the informal aesthetics of the mass casual era.
weeklyfoo #82 / 2025-04-28design
Geist
Gen Z Attention Spans? Meet the UX Design Hacks That Win Them Over
Godly
Astronomically good web design inspiration from all over the internet
weeklyfoo #2 / 2023-10-16websites
Going beyond pixels and (r)ems in CSS - Relative length units based on font
Gradient Designer
Great Products Have Great Premises
The most powerful thing a product can do is give its user a premise.
weeklyfoo #22 / 2024-03-04products
Grids and key shapes
Handheld Design
Harmony
Heroicons Micro: What are these, icons for ants?
Hidden Gems of Tailwind CSS
I’m just using the basics, reading through this let me feel like tackerman!
weeklyfoo #31 / 2024-05-06tailwind
Hide or Disable
A simple questions lets you know if to hide or disable an element.
weeklyfoo #20 / 2024-02-19hide
Hotlist 2025: the 25 most popular graphic designers, as voted for by their peers
Need a creative boost? Get inspired by these 25 talented graphic designers whose innovative work has earned them recognition and admiration from their fellow creatives.
weeklyfoo #65 / 2024-12-30designers
How Airbnb Became a Leader in UX Design
Indeed AirBnB makes a difference if it comes to designing a great product.
weeklyfoo #20 / 2024-02-19airbnb
How Canva Activates Users
How Comic Sans became the Crocs of fonts
After 30 years of abuse, Comic Sans is ready for its redemption.
weeklyfoo #57 / 2024-11-04fonts
How design works at Supabase
How I Developed the 10 Usability Heuristics
Jakob Nielsen’s 10 usability heuristics were defined from a factor analysis of the use of a much larger set of usability principles to explain a database of usability problems in development projects.
weeklyfoo #21 / 2024-02-26principles
How should designers code?
I’m a big fan of designers that code as well. This article shows some practical paths toward shipping to production
weeklyfoo #18 / 2024-02-05coding
How to Create a Memorable Logo In 2024
How to Create Better Error Alerts: A Guide to Improving User Experience
Effective error alerts inform, guide, and reassure users with clarity and empathy. Prioritize actionable messages, avoid jargon, and iterate based on feedback to improve user experience.
weeklyfoo #74 / 2025-03-03errorsux
How to create the perfect icon
How to design hand icons
How to Pair Fonts: A Practical Guide
How we redesigned the Linear UI (part Ⅱ)
html.to.design
Import websites into Figma to iterate, redesign, benchmark and more; without building each element from scratch.
weeklyfoo #21 / 2024-02-26figma
HTMLrev
I studied the UX/UI of over 200 onboarding flows
Icon Usability: When and How to Evaluate Digital Icons
Effective icons depend on recognizability and interpretation. Evaluate them with methods appropriate for your specific research questions
weeklyfoo #54 / 2024-10-14icons
iiisometric
Immanuel Kant — What is Beauty?
Why is beauty so important? It leads us to truth and goodness, says Immanuel Kant.
weeklyfoo #17 / 2024-01-28beauty
In Praise of Buttons – Part One
Inside How Stripe Crafts Quality Products
A deep dive into Stripe’s rituals and principles to produce surprisingly great work
weeklyfoo #55 / 2024-10-21stripe
InspoVault
Inter 4.0
Interviews about visual design
Intro to colour contrast
Colour contrast makes a big part of the user experience for all users. Accessibility guidelines however, are not always easy to follow. In this article we will see how to meet the requirements with practical examples.
weeklyfoo #39 / 2024-07-01colors
Introducing Kermit: A typeface for kids
Using design to empower children by making reading easier, improving comprehension, and helping dyslexics.
weeklyfoo #81 / 2025-04-21fonts
Item Flow, Part 1
Landbook
Layout Land
Learn the logic of great typography
Loading & progress indicators — UI Components series
Engage users and enhance waiting experiences with these simple recommendations.
weeklyfoo #51 / 2024-09-23ux
Logo Artists Reinterpreted 38 Of The Most Recognizable Logos With A Single Unbroken Line
French designer Stephane Leopold, co-founder of Loooop Studio, reimagines iconic logos in his project One Line Famous Logos, using a single, unbroken line to distill their essence.
weeklyfoo #64 / 2024-12-23logos
Marbla
Marbla is an experimental display typeface exploring the possibilities of variable fonts to change the mood and personality of a typeface.
weeklyfoo #9 / 2023-12-03fonts
Methods for random gradients
An overview of techniques I’ve used to generate random gradient images.
weeklyfoo #61 / 2024-12-02gradients
Microsoft Paint’s OpenAI-powered ‘Cocreator’ image generator is here
Minimal Gallery
mmm.page could make you enjoy the internet again
First time I hear about mmm.pages and I really like to explore pages!
weeklyfoo #17 / 2024-01-28pages
Mobile search: which pattern should you choose?
Motionimo
Your daily dose of quality resources and beautiful animations.
weeklyfoo #21 / 2024-02-26animations
Naming Design Tokens
NaNGlyphFilters
Navbar Gallery
Find the best navigation designs from leading websites to fuel your inspiration.
weeklyfoo #22 / 2024-03-04navbars
neobrutalism components
A collection of type-safe components written in React and Tailwind
weeklyfoo #1 / 2023-10-07reactcomponents
new CSS logo?
New Front-End Features For Designers In 2025
Searching for the most flexible front-end workflows and toolkits, it’s easy to forget how powerful some of the fundamentals on the web have become these days. This post is a journey through new front-end features and what they are capable of.
weeklyfoo #67 / 2025-01-13css
No-Code Tools Every Designer Needs
Now in Baseline - animating entry effects
OGimage.gallery
Oh shit banners
Okay, Color Spaces
Onboarding for Active Users
First time read about progressive onboarding and I like it!
weeklyfoo #33 / 2024-05-20onboarding
Onboarding Study
Open Database of Design Salaries
Promoting salary transparency & pay equity amongst design professionals across industries, experience levels & geographies.
weeklyfoo #36 / 2024-06-10career
Open Design Docs
Open Runde
paaatterns
Free collection of beautiful patterns for all vector formats
weeklyfoo #16 / 2024-01-22shapesvector
Patterns and Predictions for 2024
Thoughts on what will have a lasting impact on us at the intersection of creativity and technology
weeklyfoo #14 / 2024-01-072024
Performing a Web Accessibility Audit
We all know accessibility is critical, but where to start? An audit will point you in the right direction.
weeklyfoo #7 / 2023-11-19a11y
Podlite
Podlite is a lightweight block-based markup language designed for flexibility and ease of use. Not sure why it’s needed because Markdown exists.
weeklyfoo #30 / 2024-04-29markup
Prettyfolio
Reddit Sans
Redefining interfaces: The icon evolution
How icons have adapted to UI transformations and trends, from the first Xerox icons of the 1970s to the modern Apple Spatial icons.
weeklyfoo #26 / 2024-04-01icons
Reducing UX debt (or die trying)
Product people should be less concerned with delivering new features (maximising) than with reducing UX debt (optimising). Poor, unresolved user experience is what drives away customers and destroys team motivation and commitment.
weeklyfoo #49 / 2024-09-09uiux
Responsive templates
Rethinking Text Resizing on Web
Ryan Todd’s 365 days of drawing delivers a witty collection of inventions, and some thought-provoking observations
The artist’s diverse collection of doodles encapsulate a year-long exploration into the practice of visual thinking.
weeklyfoo #38 / 2024-06-24creativity
SaaS Pricing Explorer
Safiro Font: Mastery in Font Design & Typography
Explore the elegance of Safiro font, a masterpiece in font design and typography, perfect for branding, editorial, and web design.
weeklyfoo #19 / 2024-02-12fonts
Saying bye to 4px spacing and hello to Fibonacci
I have a consistent routine when I work with a new designer. I head to Google, search “8px grid Medium.com”, pull up Elliot Dahl’s comprehensive guide and send it to them. Here’s the guide.
weeklyfoo #78 / 2025-03-31spacing
Science just validated your favorite font pairings
Researchers reviewed thousands of fonts—and confirmed what every designer already knows.
weeklyfoo #68 / 2025-01-19fonts
Show, not tell: How to make use of restricted or scrapped design work
How to transform design work restricted by NDAs or scrapped prematurely
weeklyfoo #22 / 2024-03-04nda
Simple steps to turn icons into mini illustrations
Figure out the tricks to turn your icons into mini illustrations to spruce up your projects.
weeklyfoo #27 / 2024-04-08icons
Sliders degrade UX (so do this instead)
Small laboratory of fine UI
Spin
Replicate your production environment locally using Docker.
weeklyfoo #15 / 2024-01-14infradockerbash
standards
Storefront
Synthetic Users
Our goal is to leverage the power of artificial intelligence to generate realistic synthetic personas and evaluate the desirability of your ideas in a few minutes.
weeklyfoo #3 / 2023-10-22aiinterviews
Tailwind Elements
Tailwind has won
Experience from using Bulma, Bootstrap and Tailwind
weeklyfoo #26 / 2024-04-01cssbulmatailwindbootstrap
Tell better stories
The 14 Worst Fonts in the World
The 3 secrets to Font Pairing
The Art of Dithering and Retro Shading for the Web
The best number fonts
The best fonts for adding creative number characters to your design projects.
weeklyfoo #31 / 2024-05-06fonts
The best web design inspiration
Browse the best of the internet. Hand-picked and updated daily.
weeklyfoo #8 / 2023-11-26websites
The biggest font trends to look out for in 2025
From a sans-serif backlash to neo-retro revivals, our experts predict a diverse typographic landscape for the coming year.
weeklyfoo #56 / 2024-10-25fonts
The Color Dot Font
In the font, each Latin character is replaced with a circle of a certain color.
weeklyfoo #38 / 2024-06-24fonts
The country where design is dominated by women
Unlike in most parts of the world, Iceland’s design scene is overwhelmingly female.
weeklyfoo #40 / 2024-07-08equality
The Death of User Interfaces
Dive into how product design has shifted towards a UI focus and how the AI “revolution” is gradually phasing out the “traditional user interfaces.”
weeklyfoo #23 / 2024-03-11uiai
The File Folder Structure Every Designer Needs
The Future of CSS: Easy Light-Dark Mode Color Switching with light-dark()
The hidden power of typography
The science behind how design choices influence perception and behavior
weeklyfoo #26 / 2024-04-01typography
The Linear Look
There’s one style that seems to be taking over the tech SaaS world, and it’s the one popularized by Linear’s homepage.
weeklyfoo #22 / 2024-03-04landingpages
The Looking Glass: How to tell if work is beautiful
What is beauty? Why is nature beautiful? The case for making beautiful things
weeklyfoo #8 / 2023-11-26beautiful
The Magic of Clip Path
clip-path is often used for trimming a DOM node into specific shapes, like triangles. But what if I told you that it’s also great for animations?
weeklyfoo #41 / 2024-07-14css
The New Free Fonts Every Designer Should Have
The Only 8 Fonts You Will Ever Need
The first three fonts are new to me, but the other ones are classic.
weeklyfoo #41 / 2024-07-14fonts
The Perfect Webpage
How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms - a beautiful crafted web page with lots of content.
weeklyfoo #15 / 2024-01-14seogoogle
The Post-UX Era
The article argues that UX has matured into a baseline expectation — usable, accessible, and consistent design is no longer a competitive edge but a standard.
weeklyfoo #81 / 2025-04-21ux
The Return of the UX Generalist
AI advances make UX generalists valuable, reversing the trend toward specialization. Understanding multiple disciplines is increasingly important.
weeklyfoo #79 / 2025-04-07career
The Sound of Software
The Structure of User Experience
A model of how UX works, and the critical forces that drive the team’s product development.
weeklyfoo #26 / 2024-04-01ux
The time for designers to learn to code is now
With design tools further commoditising and sanitising expected creative output, the time for designers to be able to stand out is very much here.
weeklyfoo #40 / 2024-07-08coding
The Top 10 Cities for Artists in the World: Where Creativity Thrives
The UX of login codes
I could do a deep dive into the UX of login codes, but I’ll do my best to keep it short. If your product texts/emails login codes, the experience better be amazing.
weeklyfoo #68 / 2025-01-19loginux
This scroll effect <3
Time-based CSS Animations
Tooltips are presentational
The ARIA tooltip role is functionally useless and semantically meaningless. The only legitimate use-case for tooltips is to show information that’s already accessibly defined. So tooltips only benefit sighted users, and are therefore presentational.
weeklyfoo #71 / 2025-02-10ariatooltips
trending.design
Truth, Lies and Progress Bars
Typography Manual
UI = f(statesⁿ)
UI Density
UI/UX Design Trends For 2024
Dive into the latest UI/UX design trends for 2024. Take advantage of them to level up your business and strengthen your digital services.
weeklyfoo #14 / 2024-01-07trends
unsection
User-Interface Elements: Glossary
Use this glossary to quickly clarify definitions for key graphical user-interface elements and controls.
weeklyfoo #75 / 2025-03-10uiglossary
UserStock
Free photos of people’s faces to use as avatars in UI mockups, prototypes and more.
weeklyfoo #1 / 2023-10-07photospeople
UX Design Conferences You Can’t Miss in 2024
UX Dictionary
UX is a joke, and it’s inexcusable
Designer Mathew Wilson on why we should worry that bad user experience has become a punchline.
weeklyfoo #56 / 2024-10-25ux
UX Language
A comprehensive set of useful and semi-universal UX copywriting and style guidelines and examples to reference while designing and building products and interfaces.
weeklyfoo #22 / 2024-03-04copywriting
UX Myths
UX Myths collects the most frequent user experience misconceptions and explains why they don’t hold true.
weeklyfoo #17 / 2024-01-28uxmyths
UX/UI Design Trends Going Into 2024
UX/UI-trends in 2024
verto.sh
verto.sh simplifies your entry into the open-source world by curating accessible projects.
weeklyfoo #4 / 2023-10-30a11y
Visual Design - Glossary
Use this glossary to quickly clarify key terms and concepts related to visual design.
weeklyfoo #34 / 2024-05-27uiglossary
Visual design rules you can safely follow every time
You do not have to follow these rules every time. If you have a good reason to break any of them, do. But they are safe to follow every time.
weeklyfoo #33 / 2024-05-20rules
VOV.CSS
Wall of portfolios
A curated showcase of beautifully designed & super effective portfolios
weeklyfoo #18 / 2024-02-05portfolio
Web Design, UI Inspiration, resources & Tutorials with Demo
What You Need to Know about Modern CSS (Spring 2024 Edition)
What’s the right font size in web design?
Who is responsible for the impact of innovative products?
How can it be that a) all products are designed, b) designers want to create something good for the world and c) so many products are total garbage?
weeklyfoo #11 / 2023-12-17responsibility
Why carousels don't work
Why do we need icons in user interfaces?
Icons help us understand things clearly and acts us a guiding light. Discover how icons help us shape user interfaces and tips to keep in mind while choosing your icons.
weeklyfoo #28 / 2024-04-15icons
Why I’m excited about text-box-trim as a designer
Why most products today are meh
Lack of differentiation and over-optimization are running rampant. Here’s what designers can do about it.
weeklyfoo #75 / 2025-03-10ui
Wireframe Examples
Find all the wireframe examples you need as inspiration for your next project. Safe hours coming up with layouts on your own.
weeklyfoo #18 / 2024-02-05wireframes