Webdesigner Depot

Webdesigner Depot is a widely recognized blog that covers the latest trends in web design, offers tutorials, and provides a variety of related content. The blog is managed by Walter Apai, a web designer based in Vancouver.

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Exciting New Tools for Designers, May 2025

1 week ago | webdesignerdepot.com | Carrie Cousins

It seems like artificial intelligence is at the core of almost every conversation in design, media, and marketing. That is obvious with the release of new design tools as well. There are AI-influenced elements everywhere. So in this list, you too, will find a lot of AI with the hope of it improving your design workflows. Here’s what’s new for designers.
Exciting New Tools for Designers, April 2025

1 month ago | webdesignerdepot.com | Carrie Cousins

The busy season is in full swing, with numerous projects heating up. That means you will likely need great tools to manage workflows and keep your design world running smoothly. This roundup is full of fun hidden gems as well to keep you motivated along the way. Here’s what’s new for designers. Smart Keys is a Mac-based tool that can help you improve your writing with keyboard shortcuts to fix grammar, translate, shift tone, and get coding help.
Top 10 Web Design Trends for 2025

1 month 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.
Exciting New Tools for Designers, March 2025

Mar 10, 2025 | 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.
3 Essential Design Trends, January 2025

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.
10 Free Resources for Web Designers, January 2025

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.
The Usability Myth: Users Don’t Really Know What They Want (and That’s Totally OK!)

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.
Exciting New Tools For Designers, January 2025

Jan 13, 2025 | webdesignerdepot.com | Paddi MacDonnell

Welcome to our first tools round up of 2025. It’s the first Monday of a new year, and many of you are back at work after a much needed break. Let us ease you back in with our pick of the latest tools to help you get stuff done faster, smarter, and with a little less stress. Enjoy!Comet UI offers a curated set of interactive, accessible components to supercharge development speed.
Mark Zuckerberg and the Illusion of Trust

Jan 9, 2025 | webdesignerdepot.com | Noah Davis

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, has sparked controversy by dismantling fact-checking partnerships on his platforms. While critics have decried this as a blow to accountability, the truth is far more nuanced. Fact-checking itself is rife with political agendas, and its flaws have made it a lightning rod for distrust. Zuckerberg’s decision to shift away from traditional fact-checking exposes deeper issues about who gets to control the narrative online.
FTC Orders accessiBe to Pay $1 Million for Deceptive AI Accessibility Claims

Jan 7, 2025 | webdesignerdepot.com | Noah Davis

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has mandated that accessiBe, a provider of web accessibility solutions, pay $1 million to settle allegations of deceptive marketing practices. The FTC asserts that accessiBe falsely claimed its AI-powered tool, accessWidget, could render any website fully compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). AccessiBe, established in 2018, offers automated solutions aimed at enhancing website accessibility for individuals with disabilities.