Web Designer Depot Oct 15, 3:52 PM

She Taught the Macintosh to Smile

The Macintosh didn’t always smile. Susan Kare gave it one — and with a handful of black pixels, helped transform the computer from an intimidating machine in...

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Web Designer Depot Oct 13, 3:59 PM

The Death of the Portfolio (And What to Do Before You’re Left Behind)

A polished portfolio used to get you hired. Now AI makes polished work cheap, and clients want proof you can solve problems, communicate clearly, and deliver...

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Web Designer Depot Oct 8, 3:45 PM

Web Design Schools Have a Giant YouTube University Problem — And AI Just Made It Worse

A web design degree used to be the obvious way to learn the craft. Now it’s competing with YouTube, AI, and people who spend those same years actually buildi...

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Web Designer Depot Oct 6, 6:45 PM

Web Designers Love Dark Mode Toggles. Users Might Not Care.

Dark mode toggles are everywhere, but do users actually need them, or are designers designing for other designers? A growing UX debate is questioning whether...

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Web Designer Depot Oct 1, 2:19 PM

Turn Any Photo Into Retro ASCII Art in Seconds

Turn any photo into gloriously retro ASCII art — made entirely from letters, symbols, and tiny bits of chaos. This free tool turns your dog, face, logo, or w...

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Web Designer Depot Sep 29, 12:18 PM

How the Prompt Box is Swallowing Website Interfaces Whole

For decades, web designers obsessed over perfecting menus, tabs, and dropdowns. Now a single empty prompt box is quietly replacing them all. As AI turns webs...

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Web Designer Depot Sep 28, 2:49 PM

Traditional Web Development is Dead…(and Honestly? Good Riddance.)

AI isn't killing web development—it’s killing the boring parts. The real winners won't be the people who can memorize another framework. They'll be the build...

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Web Designer Depot Sep 25, 5:56 PM

This Website Found More Than 5 Million Forgotten iPhone Videos… and It’s Weirdly Emotional

Before TikTok turned every moment into content, people uploaded shaky, pointless little iPhone videos to YouTube and forgot about them. This strange website ...

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Web Designer Depot Sep 25, 2:32 PM

Canva Just Turned Affinity Into Adobe’s Biggest Free Problem

Canva just made a much more serious play for professional designers: Affinity now brings design, photo editing, and layout into one free app, while Canva con...

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Web Designer Depot Sep 24, 3:57 PM

Nobody Wants Your Damn App

Nobody wants another app cluttering their phone—so why does every website keep begging us to install one? The web already perfected the experience: click, lo...

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Web Designer Depot Sep 22, 3:01 PM

This Weird 1973 Typeface Just Came Back From the Dead

A wonderfully weird typeface from 1973 has come back to life — and somehow it looks more at home in 2026 than ever. Meet Clippy, the retro font that bends, r...

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Web Designer Depot Sep 21, 3:32 PM

The Death of Apps Has Already Begun

We spent 15 years filling our phones with apps. AI could make almost all of them invisible... and the death of apps may already be closer than anyone realizes.

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