Category: Layout

8 Web Design Challenges & Ways to Tackle Them

Reading Time – 6 min. Eight problems derail most web design projects: building before you know the audience, picking a tech stack that costs you performance, navigation nobody can hold in their head, accessibility left until the end, SEO retrofitted after launch, security treated as someone else's job, responsive work that only holds at three widths, and a site that looks good but does not convert. Every one of them is cheaper to fix in a wireframe than in production.

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Best Practices For Tooltips On Mobile Websites

Reading Time – 6 min. Tooltips are a great way to provide additional information to your mobile website visitors without taking up too much space on the page.

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What are Modals, Popups, Popovers and Lightboxes?

Reading Time – 3 min. Modal vs popup: a modal blocks the page until you act on it, a popup is any window that appears on top. Plus popovers, lightboxes and dialogs compared.

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Designing tables with lots of data

Reading Time – 2 min. Data table design for big, dense tables: column order, number alignment, frozen headers, sorting, filters, accessibility and mobile, plus a checklist.

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Hamburger menu icon: should it be on the left or right?

Reading Time – 2 min. Hamburger menu left or right? Left in apps with a side drawer, right on most mobile sites, or a bottom tab bar if you have five or fewer sections.

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Should users be able to zoom on a responsive web design?

Reading Time – 2 min. Responsive web design by definition adapts to the screen size of the device. But, should you allow zooming? The short answer is yes.

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How can you tell users they can scroll?

Reading Time – 2 min. While we realize that putting the most important content above the fold is important, sometimes there is a need to scroll.

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What is a modal dialog window?

Reading Time – 2 min. A modal dialog window is a window that pops up on top of the window that is currently active. This window blocks the user from interacting with the other…

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What is a mobile menu called?

Reading Time – 2 min. Short answer: Hamburger menu. There are several types of mobile menus, but the hamburger menu is the most common.

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Most Common Screen Resolution in 2026

Reading Time – 2 min. Short answer: 1920x1080. If you are designing or developing software, you must be curious about which screen resolutions are most common.

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