The Long Read Magazine manages to live in two worlds: the bookshelf and newsstand. https://webdesignernews.com/how-the-guardian-designed-its-thoughtful-new-long-form-mag/
Meta now offers users an ad-free option, but it’s only available in Europe for those who can afford the €10-a-month subscription. https://webdesignernews.com/how-to-get-facebook-without-ads-if-its-available-for-you/
All those tabs you swear you’ll get to are actually hogging a lot of memory. https://webdesignernews.com/you-can-now-see-how-much-ram-a-chrome-tab-is-using/
WordPress Playground began as an experiment to see what a self-hosted WordPress experience might look like without the requirement of having to actually install WordPress. A year later, the experiment has evolved into a full-fledged project that not only abstracts installation but opens up WordPress to a slew of new opportunities. Ganesh Dahal demonstrates how WordPress Playground works and gets deep into how it might be used. https://webdesignernews.com/wordpress-playground-from-5-minute-instal
There’s a setting on your phone and web browser that Google is desperate to keep you from discovering. How desperate? In 2021 alone, Google paid Apple, Samsung and others $26.3 billion to keep it buried. https://webdesignernews.com/google-spent-26-billion-to-hide-this-phone-setting-from-you/
Fight for Kindness, designed to mark World Kindness Day, celebrated annually on November 13, provides an antidote by highlighting kindness in all its dimensions and forms through typography. https://webdesignernews.com/celebrate-kindness-through-the-medium-of-typography/
A beginners guide to understanding design tokens https://webdesignernews.com/design-tokens-102/
Content Credentials allows creators to attach information to their content, including the name of the artist, the program used to create the piece, any edits or processes used and assets included in the final image. It also marks images that have been generated using AI tools. https://webdesignernews.com/how-to-add-content-credentials-to-an-image-in-photoshop/
As the public begins to believe Google isn’t as useful anymore, what happens to the cottage industry of search engine optimization experts who struck content oil and smeared it all over the web? Well, they find a new way to get rich and keep the party going. https://webdesignernews.com/the-people-who-ruined-the-internet/
Searching for a tool to make cross-platform design a breeze? Desperate for an extension that helps you figure out the HTML code of that fantastic color palette? Looking for a trick that will supercharge your productivity this year? We’ve got you covered. https://webdesignernews.com/30-amazing-chrome-extensions-for-designers-and-developers/