by St Albans Web Design | 10 Mar 2026 | Web Design, Web Development
This article is a sponsored by SurveyJS There’s a mental model most React developers share without ever discussing it out loud. That forms are always supposed to be components. This means a stack like: React Hook Form for local state (minimal re-renders, ergonomic...
by St Albans Web Design | 9 Mar 2026 | Web Design, Web Development
Ten years ago, persuasive design was a relatively new frontier in the field of UX. In a 2015 Smashing article, I was among those who showed a way for practitioners to move from being primarily focused on improving usability and removing friction to also guide users...
by St Albans Web Design | 6 Mar 2026 | Web Design, Web Development
I’ve been working in User Experience design for more than twenty years. Long enough to have seen the many job titles, from when stakeholders asked us to “just make it pretty” to when wireframes were delivered as annotated PDFs. I’ve seen many tools come and go over...
by St Albans Web Design | 5 Mar 2026 | Web Design, Web Development
The business model for running a WordPress agency has changed in recent years. It used to be that we had an overflow of new projects coming our way. Business was plentiful, and there was little reason to think outside the box. That’s no longer the case. These days, it...
by St Albans Web Design | 4 Mar 2026 | Web Design, Web Development
My web design business is over 25 years old, and I’m not ashamed to admit that I started small. I worked with clients on the tiniest of budgets. Build an entire website for a couple of hundred dollars? That sounded like an opportunity to me. These projects didn’t do...
by St Albans Web Design | 3 Mar 2026 | Web Design, Web Development
Good UX research is at the root of great products. It takes the guesswork out of our designs and helps us solve problems before they grow. One of the best ways to make our research effective is to keep it inclusive — testing with users with different needs and...