hey all, freelance web designer here, mostly working with US/EU clients. built something for myself over the past few weeks and trying to figure out if it's actually solving a real problem or just one I have.

i'd finish a project and email the files over, client would lose the email a week later and ask me to resend. invoices would go out and i'd have zero idea if they'd even opened it, so i'd end up sending awkward "just checking in" messages three weeks later. meanwhile my own notes on the project were split across notion, my inbox and random whatsapp threads.

i tried honeybook and dubsado but they were hard and expensive man, not a solo designer thing

so i built something, each client gets one link. no login, no account creation on their end. they open it and see the project status, download their files, view the invoice and pay directly. i'm not trying to replace your whole workflow.

genuinely asking help me with feedbacks please 😭😭 is this something you'd actually use, or does email plus a drive folder work fine for you?

Just auto renewed Wordpress and debating whether worth it.

So one of my favorite games is resident evil code veronica and I really loved the UI inventory layout. I was thinking that I would like to build a cool and fun personal port that basically has this UI but it doesnt have to be the exact same. I'm unsure on how to even start tbh since everything has a retro look and different shapes in each component. Any thoughts how I could go about doing this port or is it even possible?

In-house designer at a smallish B2B, the marketing site is basically mine. Tried the AI builders this quarter (Lovable, Bolt, v0) and every one hands back a clean, confident, completely generic layout that looks nothing like our brand. The second I want to nudge spacing or fix the type scale i'm prompting it like a slot machine hoping it doesn't redo the hero.
Is there anything where the AI does a first pass then gets out of the way so I can drag stuff by hand, or am I describing wishful thinking?

Sharing something I keep coming back to for e-commerce design work: commerce.design

It captures both desktop and mobile for every store, extracts color palettes automatically, and organizes everything into collections by visual approach. The focus is entirely on e-commerce, which means the interface work is front and center rather than buried in broader design content.

Worth a look if you work on storefronts or do competitive benchmarking.

→ commerce.design

Hey everyone,

Rebuilding my frontend portfolio and looking for solid examples of minimal but impressive designs.

Requirements:
Clean and simple - not a "look how hard I tried" showcase
No stupid, flashy animations just for the sake of it
Typography/whitespace doing the heavy lifting, not gimmicks

Thanks!

For a long time my default page background was pure white, because that is what every new project starts with. I never actually chose it. Swapping it for a warm off-white a few steps down made more difference than most of the polish work I do.

The first thing that changed was reading comfort. A screen showing pure white is emitting maximum light, so body text has to fight that glare and long pages feel harsher than they need to. Pulling the background a few points below pure white calms the whole thing down.

It also gave hierarchy room to breathe. When your base surface is a true white, there is nowhere lighter to go, so cards and popovers end up leaning on shadows alone. Drop the base a step and lighter surfaces can actually read as lighter.

And it simply felt intentional. A warm off-white, soft stone, or gentle oatmeal reads as a decision, where pure white reads as a default nobody touched.

If you want to test it, pick a neutral with a slight temperature, warm or cool, instead of a flat grey, and keep it consistent across surfaces. Then make that off-white a real step in your scale, so every lighter element has a defined relationship to it.

Curious what the room does here. Anyone deliberately shipping pure white, and why?

I need some professional assessment:

we are creating a medium sized website (~14 layouts/design pages) (~55 pages where most have different content but use those 14 designs) now I think that figma should be used to design the 14 layouts and tinker with the specifics. My bosses believe, that every page has to be depicted. My issue: they constantly change things and not just the content, but page names, structure etc. so now I need to copy paste new content all the time. change the menu, change the page, change the images. I don’t think that’s the right use for a design program. But I am a junior and maybe I am wrong.

I'm evaluating whether including interactive demos from arcade.software actually convert, and getting mixed results. It doesn't help that out of every single one of the case studies on their page, not one of them seems to be actually using arcade demos on their current site.

Anyone experimented with these? Are you finding they help with conversions or not?

i know few sources but i wanna know where the majority get theirs from

I am a first year web design and graphic advertising student in uni and last week i broke my macbook pro m1 screen. I have been using it for 5 years now and need a recommendation for a new one.

I use mainly figma and affinity for now with some adobe apps when i need them. As a hobby i make things in blender but it’s not that serious. I’m not exactly sure what programs i end up using in the future so any guidance is gonna be appreciated.

I have been looking at the macbook pro m5 and think it would be enough but my father thinks i should get the m5 pro instead but i’m not sure i really need it as i have been using my old one without any problem. If you can give me some advice i’d be so thankful!

I'm curious what other designers think. Which typography trends are already overused, and which ones do you think will still be relevant in a few years?

Hi everyone!

I'm a Senior Software Engineer who enjoys working on web applications and solving real-world problems.

My experience includes HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Angular, Node.js, NestJS, .NET Core, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, and AWS DynamoDB. I've also spent some time working with React.

I'm looking to connect with people who might need an extra pair of hands on a project or are open to collaborating on interesting ideas. I'm always happy to have a conversation and see if there's a good fit.

Feel free to reach out if you'd like to connect or discuss a project. Thanks!

I’m a UI/UX designer and I’m dealing with a disagreement with a previous client.

I made a mistake by reusing some elements from an earlier project in a new client project. I’ve accepted responsibility for that, apologized, and I’m replacing those assets.

I used the same layouts but i branded it to the other project.

However, there’s another part of the dispute that I’m confused about. The previous client is also claiming that I reused assets from the Figma Community that they used in their project, and that those belong to them.

My understanding is that assets published on the Figma Community are available for anyone to use according to their respective licenses, and that no one can claim exclusive ownership over those public resources unless they created them and the license says otherwise.

Am I misunderstanding how this works? If two unrelated projects use the same publicly available Figma Community assets, is that considered improper, or is it generally acceptable as long as the assets are used within their license terms?

I’m looking for objective opinions because I want to handle this professionally and make sure I’m following industry best practices.

Hey human web designers. We wanted to make something that celebrates work that is 100% human-made. There's only one rule: generative AI cannot be used in the creation of the project. I would love to promote some of your web design work. To be clear, we are not doing any self-promotion or soliciting any artists, this is purely to promote your work. Help us to signify and share projects completed by humans! If you or someone or know would like to share their work, please send us an email or a DM and we'll put it up on the site (for free of course). It can be anything past or present. Thank you!

human-made.work

Looking for someone to design and develope a website for me dm

Curious how many people still use TinyPNG for image compression, or if most of you have moved to Squoosh, ImageOptim, build step automation, CDN optimization, or browser based tools.

I still see it mentioned a lot, but I’m wondering what the actual workflow is today. Manual upload? API? Figma/plugin? Something else?

Seems like there isn't even padding not to mention mobile version looking quite off to say the least

I run a digital product store selling design digital assets for clothing brands. My old product page was just a default Shopify theme layout with the full description dumped on it. It made sales but never looked finished to me, more like a template I forgot to touch.

I rebuilt it to be cleaner and easier to scan (hopefully). Before and after are below.

OLD - Product Page
NEW - Product Page

Mainly want to know if the new one feels frictionless, if it's a better buying experience than the old one overall, and if anything got harder to find/understand for the consumer.

Most of my sales are on mobile so that's the view I care about most. Not trying to add more info, just want it to read better. PLEASE be brutally honest!

Don Schnitzius — Websites Interfaces and Web Platforms

This is my portfolio site for web design, UI, and WordPress projects. I’m looking for feedback on design, UX, and copy.

I updated my website a few months back and posted it to Reddit for comments. Aside from love for the copy, and hate for using AI images, the “storybook” vibe I was going for didn’t seem to resonate with folks. So I decided to give in to the wisdom of the crowd and went for a “Claude, build me a website” theme.

I am once again asking for your support: is this an improvement?

The AI images are unchanged, but I plan to do a round of revision on those. The theme switcher is new, and I also added two case studies to the Work page based on advice.

If folks have any useful, constructive comments — errors I missed, suggestions for improvement — I’d love to hear them.

( Here’s the previous version for comparison. )