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Some trends last for ages while others are cyclical, but whether classic or fleeting, design trends are both inspiring and incredibly useful when it comes to your graphics work. So what’s been hot in 2016? The five styles that have dominated the year so far are outlined here to help you develop eye-catching and relevant concepts, while still staying true your unique creative vision.

We rounded up visual examples of each design trend using royalty-free stock graphics, which you can easily incorporate into your own projects. Here’s the breakdown....

Your portfolio website is one of the first things your clients will see, so it’s important to get its design just right. Are you designing your very first portfolio website? Or do you need motivation to redesign an existing one? Check out these excellent portfolio websites for ideas and inspiration.

Great websites do not happen by accident. A site is considered successful if it is useful, relevant, and well designed. As the Head of the UX department in a code-free web design platform, I spend a lot of time thinking about great design and how it can be used to create great websites. While different web projects each have different needs, there are some design principles and best practices that are universal to all sites. In this article, we will take a look at 5 Design Tips to Revive Your Dead Website....

WordPress themes are great sources of design inspiration, but it’s even more interesting to check out the best selling premium themes to see the kind of styles are popular with the general public. In today’s web design showcase I round up some of the most purchased themes from multiple marketplaces to compare their layouts. Can you see any common trends?...

I kinda wish I’d thought of this topic earlier this year, but I recently came across some really cool 2014 Year in Review features that I’d missed at the turn of the year. I thought there was probably some others that I’d missed too, so I took some time to round up all the best microsites that documented various stats from 2014. There’s some inspirational layouts and clever use of web effects that make them definitely worth checking out!...