Webdesigner Depot

1 week ago | webdesignerdepot.com | Carrie Cousins

Now that we are fully involved in 2025, it’s a good time to pause and reflect on some of the things happening with website design. There are a handful of web design trends for 2025 that are genuinely shaping the landscape and will likely be something you consider or get a request to do this year. Let’s dive into these web design trends. The idea that “content is king” online is not new. What is new are the interactive devices designers are using to help weave these tales.

1 month ago | webdesignerdepot.com | Carrie Cousins

Spring into action this season with new tools to boost your workflows, facilitate creative thinking, and help you be a more efficient designer. This roundup is packed with new goodies that can help you with daily tasks and more long-term projects. Enjoy!Projects that need background music can be a challenge when it comes to finding just the right beat. Beatoven lets you create your own music using artificial intelligence and further customize those tracks to fit your projects perfectly.

Jan 20, 2025 | webdesignerdepot.com | Carrie Cousins

Happy New Year! If the website design trends we are already seeing are any indication, 2025 is going to be a great year for visual communication. This month’s collection of trends features a resurgence of shapes, text as a background element, and lovely high-drama imagery. Here’s what’s trending in design this month:The circle is a great shape with a lot of flexibility for design purposes.

Jan 16, 2025 | webdesignerdepot.com | Carrie Cousins

Everyone loves to work smarter. This list of free resources for web designers will help you find tools, themes, fonts, and other resources that can make design and development faster and more efficient. Starting this month, we’ll post a monthly collection of these tools to help you design better. Enjoy!One of the things that always falls by the wayside for creatives is creating their own portfolio websites.

Jan 15, 2025 | webdesignerdepot.com | Noah Davis

If you’ve spent any time in UX design, you’ve probably heard it a thousand times: “Design for the user.” It’s our golden rule, the heart of usability testing, and the crux of every client pitch. But let’s get real for a second—do users actually know what they want? Spoiler alert: not really. Before you grab your wireframes and storm off, hear me out. This isn’t a knock on users (or usability). It’s about recognizing that people often have no idea what they need, much less how to articulate it.