EARLY OCT 2026
Every year brings a fresh crop of design trends. Here are the ones that genuinely help a business site in 2026 — and the ones to skip.
A landing page has one job. Here is the section-by-section structure I use to make sure it does that job instead of just looking good.
Responsive design is twenty years old and most sites still get it wrong in the same five ways. Here is what actually holds up across devices.
Navigation decides whether visitors find what they came for. How to structure, label, and build a menu that works for people and for search engines.
Type is most of what a visitor sees. A practical guide to picking, pairing, sizing, and loading fonts without wrecking your performance.
How to build a website palette that looks intentional, stays accessible, and survives contact with a real design system.
Space is not wasted space. It is the cheapest way to make a site feel premium, easier to read, and easier to act on.
The difference between a site that feels flat and one that feels responsive is usually a handful of 150-millisecond details.
Dark mode is more than inverting your colours. The specific mistakes that make dark themes unreadable, and how to avoid all of them.
Your call to action is the smallest element carrying the biggest job. Wording, placement, size, states, and the mistakes that quietly cost conversions.
Most design-to-development friction comes from the same handful of gaps. Here is the workflow I use to close them before a single component gets built.
Three words used interchangeably by almost everyone, and getting them mixed up is how projects end up reviewing the wrong thing at the wrong time.
Tailwind is either the best thing to happen to CSS or an unreadable mess, depending who you ask. Here is where it genuinely helps and where it does not.
Over 60% of web traffic is mobile. If your site looks like an afterthought on a phone, you're losing customers every day.
Stock themes look fine — until you realise your competitor's site is using the same one. Here's why brand-led design wins.
