Web design topics

Connecting and working with other web professionals is one of my favorite parts of this industry. Web designers are always willing to share what they know, and that benefits everyone. I can’t begin to measure how much I’ve learned thanks to this generous spirit. There…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a tool for getting things done. The WordPress community is already using it to write and troubleshoot code. Meanwhile, the WordPress project is in the midst of making AI integrations easier for all. That’s all great and exciting stuff….

Imagine that you need to improve the UX of a legacy system. A system that has been silently working in the background for almost a decade. It’s slow, half-broken, unreliable, and severely outdated — a sort of “black box” that everyone relies upon, but nobody really…

After more than 20 years, WordPress still provides a career path for freelancers and agencies. There are opportunities to build your niche while working with clients. For many, the open-source software is a growth engine. It’s more than just business as usual, though….

Designing for autonomous agents presents a unique frustration. We hand a complex task to an AI, it vanishes for 30 seconds (or 30 minutes), and then it returns with a result. We stare at the screen. Did it work? Did it hallucinate? Did it check the compliance database…

Publishing dynamic content is one of the key selling points of content management systems (CMS) like WordPress. Content can change based on user input or other conditions. This is useful for everything from e-commerce sites to online publications. There are also…

The WordPress Media Library is a handy tool for managing images, documents, and multimedia content. It arranges uploaded files into date-based folders and creates multiple image sizes. All great features for a basic website. There are a few drawbacks, however. The…

Font choice sets the mood and shapes how people read a design. Sans-serif fonts are a popular choice because they are simple and easy to read. They work well across digital and print media, making them a safe option for many projects. This collection includes free…

We often see design principles as rigid guidelines that dictate design decisions. But actually, they are an incredible tool to rally the team around a shared purpose and document the values and beliefs that an organization embodies. They align teams and inform…

I’ve spent the last several weeks building the same deck across every major AI presentation tool available in 2026. Not a surface-level walkthrough. The same content. The same prompt. The same design goals. Measured against the same criteria: how close was the first…

Starting the new month with a little inspiration boost — that’s the idea behind our monthly wallpapers series which has been going on for more than 15 years already. Each month, the wallpapers are created by the community for the community, and everyone who has an…

In the early days of the web, the search bar was a luxury, added to a site once it became “too big” to navigate by clicking. We treated it like an index at the back of a book: a literal, alphabetical list of words that pointed to specific pages. If you typed the exact…

Building a true culture of digital accessibility in a company is a mission of resilience and perseverance. It’s not difficult for the discourse on accessibility to fall into the usual clichés. Accessibility is very important for people. The accessibility of digital…

The scenario is almost always the same, which is a data table inside a scrollable container. Every row has an action menu, a small dropdown with some options, like Edit, Duplicate, and Delete. You build it, it seems to work perfectly in isolation, and then someone…

You probably have been there before. How do we choose between showing a modal to users, and when do we navigate them to a separate, new page? And does it matter at all? Actually, it does. The decision influences users’ flow, their context, their ability to look up…

Design isn’t only pixels and patterns. It’s pacing and feelings, too. Some products feel cinematic as they guide us through uncertainty, relief, confidence, and calm without yanking us around. That’s Emotion in Flow. Others undercut their own moments with a joke in…

Almost any kind of application written in JavaScript works with times or dates in some capacity. In the beginning, this was limited to the built-in Date API. This API includes basic functionality, but is quite limited in what it can do. Third-party libraries like…

Less than one in five people trust AI to run reliably without human review. Someone still has to think through the information architecture, care about the user, and decide what the final product actually needs to show. That someone is you. What AI does well, though,…