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Wix vs. Shopify: Which is better for building your online store?
Learn the differences between Wix and Shopify, where each excels and falls short, and how to choose the best ecommerce platform for your business.
Using AI for UX Work: Study Guide
The resources provided in this study guide can help you think about specific, targeted ways AI can assist your work, but you should keep your head on straight and think critically.
How to improve website performance: Best practices for faster sites
You are what you measure. Marketing doesn’t mean much without careful analytics and tracking. Here’s how to make the most of your marketing with Webflow.
Why Your Favorite Websites Look Like 2005 (And Why You Secretly Love It)
The internet of the mid-2020s is a visual battlefield. As brands scramble to capture dwindling human attention spans, many have turned to “high-concept” design.
The 5 things nobody tells you about website builders
As a tech reviewer, I’ve spent the last few years building the same mock website across dozens of platforms: Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, GoDaddy, Weebly, Hostinger, Bluehost and more.
Get Ready For the Powerful CSS border-shape Property!
If you are not a CSS shape fanatic like me, you probably missed these features when they came out, so let’s give them brief, formal introductions, starting with…
Rethinking “Pixel Perfect” Web Design
It’s 2026. We are operating in an era of incredible technological leaps, where advanced tooling and AI-enhanced workflows have fundamentally transformed how we design
10 modern UI/UX design tools: Build impactful client sites
Effective user interface UI and user experience UX design start with understanding what audiences need from your client’s website. Then, you need to give visitors clear paths forward with as little friction as possible.
Measuring Component Performance with the Container Timing API
Harry Roberts’ definitive resource hints guide — when and how to use preload, prefetch, preconnect, and modulepreload to dramatically speed up page load times without breaking anything.
7 best annotation and design feedback tools for freelancers
Website design requires extensive iteration, collaboration, and rounds of review. Whether a client has a lot of ideas about their site design or is leaving direction up to the designer, the website won’t be perfect in the first draft — that’s just part of the process.
No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life
Because in most organizations, work typically requires hopping on and off between plenty of disconnected and fragmented systems, with a new AI tool, they now have yet another system that they also need to hop on and off.
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