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The color gray comes in many different shades. You can find them on different elements across most sites. Dark gray is often used for headings and body text.

It was another day at the office until we got a unique request from a new client. We were used to clients asking for us for an “engaging” website.

What shape are your app’s profile pictures? Chances are they’re square. A square isn’t the best shape to use because it makes it hard to visually process faces.

Information evolves over time like a living organism. What’s relevant this year might not hold as much weight a few years from now.

Did you know that the way your paragraph text wraps can affect how users read it? You could create orphans that hurt readability. Orphans are short lines that appear at the end of a paragraph.

Imagine walking into a small, crowded store. A shop clerk hassles you into buying something you don’t want. If this happened, you’d leave fast and look for another store.

Have you ever spent too much time reading a web page? That might not have been caused by the amount of text. Research shows that margins and line lengths affect readability.

Imagine looking at a grid of images and gray ghostlike blobs appear on your screen. This isn’t a hallucination, it’s what users see when the hermann grid illusion takes effect.

Have you ever read the terms of service agreement you agree to when you sign up for a website? A survey shows only 7% of users read the full terms when signing up.

Typefaces come in different forms. The most common forms seen on the web are regular, bold and italic. But there’s a trending typeface that designers should use on their user interfaces more often.

Nutrition labels have looked the same for decades. But the FDA plans to redesign them. By comparing the old and new, you can see why the new design is faster to scan and easier on the eyes.

Have you ever been to a website and couldn’t find what you were looking for? Most websites today overwhelm users with content irrelevant to what they’re looking for.

Almost everywhere you look on the web, you'll see sans-serif typefaces. They have long been the standard for on-screen text due to their increased readability on low screen resolutions.

Choosing colors for your website is no easy task. With so many colors and color combinations to choose from, where does a designer begin?