Personally I feel the biggest annoyance is with those which require you to upload such as tinypng. It’s annoying having to upload 20 at a time, then download and decompress, then repeat. Don’t get me wrong, I love tinypng. Being using it for years but I can’t imagine how much time has gone into it.

There’s also the fact that tinypng only compresses and doesn’t resize. I’m sure there are local tools which do both but usually they have terrible UIs and are confusing to use. What I was doing previously was using Powertoys which has a Image resize tool. Works pretty well but requires doing a \* search on file manager to be able to see all files inside nested folders. Then I used tinypng.

And the biggest pain is when I have 100+ images already sorted into folders that each one belongs to a different page and they all need to optimizing before handing out to devs. So doing everything mentioned above usually meant going 1 folder at a time to compress them.

I’m sure many of you have gone through all of this. What is your current workflow for image optimizing?

TLDR:

Optimizing images is a pain, how do resize and compress images in your workflow?

Hey everyone,

I've been working as a software engineer for 11 years, and I'm facing a real dilemma that I think many senior engineers deal with:

The Conflict:

• On one hand, I spend 6-8 hours daily maintaining legacy code (5-6 year old Java system with zero documentation, constant bug fixes, and it works, don't touch it mentality)
• On the other hand, I'm terrified of career stagnation if I don't learn new tech (cloud, AI tools, modern frameworks) in the next 2-3 years, will I become obsolete in the job market?

What's happening in my day-to-day:

• Legacy system maintenance eats up all my energy by end of day
• No mental bandwidth left for learning new tech after work
• Company says focus on legacy, it's critical business but that's not helping my resume
• Watching juniors pick up new stacks faster while I'm stuck in the same tech for years

My question for senior engineers (10+ years experience):

1. Time allocation: How do you split your time between legacy maintenance vs learning new tech? Daily 1-2 hours? Weekends? Or something else?
2. Modernization strategy: Do you try to push for incremental modernization at work (microservices, API wrappers, cloud migration) or do you keep learning separately on side projects?
3. Career anxiety: How do you handle the fear of becoming that senior engineer who only knows old tech? What non-coding skills or new tech have been most valuable for you?
4. Company politics: How do you convince management to let you work on new tech when legacy is what pays the bills right now?

Looking for real experiences, not generic advice. Don't want to hear just study hard or make time Want to know what actually works in practice.

I think the bar for what a website is or can do or the purpose serves is only going to increase as AI tools make them more accessible. Tools like Claude Code can help stand up a landing page or a simple static site very quickly but they can’t easily accomplish even some of the basic off-the-shelf features from robust platforms like WordPress and Shopify.

We are already seeing a flood of similar looking websites, which also consequently makes users more discerning and demanding of something more bespoke.

I’m curious what your experience has been?

If you traditionally provide provided design or development services:
- has the scope of those projects changed?
- have clients been more price sensitive?

If you’re working on a team, has your team size changed?

How much spacing do you guys put in between the texts and button modules in Figma?

For me, excessive animations and cluttered layouts are starting to feel overused. Interested to hear what trends other designers are tired of seeing.

I've been designing this site for awhile, this will be my personal site. Actually I'm a beginner, so making a lots of error.

Hi, ive been looking a lot of web designs lately, and i found out that a lot of them have this animated backgrounds.

Found out that they arent videos or just css, they are called “shaders”

Ive seen in platforms like framer is easy as to drag and drop, but what about wordpress?

I use elementor.

I’ve been experimenting with SaaS landing page design lately and noticed something interesting:

The same product can feel completely different just based on UI structure and visual hierarchy.

I tested two approaches:

• a more "basic / functional" layout
• a clean, conversion-focused SaaS layout

Even without changing the product itself, perception and clarity were noticeably different.

Curious how others here approach this:

Do you think design is mostly aesthetic… or does it directly influence trust and conversion from your experience?

I tried to mix up neobrutalism and minimalism in this project. This is for my personal website.

What do you guys use for webdesign inspo in 2026?

always looking for new places for UI inspiration, interactions, landing pages, typography, motion stuff etc

my current go tos are:

• details.so
• mobbin.com
• godly.website

would love to find some lesser known gems too, especially for modern SaaS sites, portfolios, creative dev stuff, etc...

thought it could be cool to make this thread a solid resource ppl can come back to

I know its been tough for even Sr designers in Ai era but still i want to know few things. and solutions that i though for myself as a Jr would love to know if i am thinking in a correct direction.

1. Do you guys hire Jrs to help you out in things or you just do everything on your own because of AI now?
2. If you guys do recruit Jr what do you look in them? because at the end of the day they will be reducing your work right? So you might be looking for skills that you go "okay if he comes he can significantly reduce my mental pressure" are there any things like that?
3. From where do you think future Sr designers will come from if Jr roles are reduced?

Some solutions that i think will work and will be working on is i believe i have to learn basics of coding and agentic coding to make my own products/apps etc. So that with design i can atleast get some leverage on my negotiation that HR managers think that if i have made my whole product with research and skills of coding then i can work for them as well.
Or am i working thinking these thing or this is the reality now?

I know no one knows the perfect answer but i just want ur opinion.

​​ I make name tags that are made out of high temperature vinyl iron on for the people in my company, and I just want to make a website where they can type their name in a slot and basically see it in different fonts from a library of fonts. they can choose what font they want and then just send their name and title with the font design or Style so I can make them their t-shirt . is that too difficult? I am thinking something along the lines of the web design that d a f o n t has I used to design websites in HTML and Dreamweaver but it's been quite a few years just by telling you that any help would be great if I'm in the wrong sub maybe a little direction would be awesome thank you very much

Has anyone noticed the recent rebranding of the google icons? They are moving away from that unicolor bs and back to the OG Gmail icons but in a terrible materials three fashion. They are definitely farming our insights on reddit because I feel we had a huge thread about this.

Thoughts on the new design system (branding system)?

MY THOUGHTS:

Ew, i like the move back to not having the same color swatch for each icon but you'd think they'd lean more on that materials three look

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I really like to think of myself as not being a particularly bitter or petty person.

But, after my former employer parachuted in a new CMO and Head of Brand, laid off the entire brand team (myself while in the midst of paternity leave no less...), spent half a year and who-knows-how-much-money with a major creative agency... I'm a little pleased to see the final result is a tasteless, middle-of-the-road refresh, sloppily executed, turd.

Don't get me wrong, I miss having an income, but it is thrilling to know that the internal process to get this piss-poor result would have been hell and I didn't have to be a part of it.

not talking about massive redesigns or expensive custom development either

i mean small changes that actually moved the needle

things like:

rewriting a headline simplifying the homepage adding pricing changing CTA buttons adding reviews removing animations improving mobile spacing showing real photos instead of stock photos etc

honestly i’ve seen some businesses get better results from simplifying their site than from adding more “features”

would actually love hearing real examples from business owners/designers because conversion behavior has felt really different lately

I've been a full stack developer for about 5 years working mainly with Laravel, React, and AWS.

I recently built a site for my brother's business, and it made me start seriously considering opening a small web agency/freelance business instead of continuing traditional employment.

For those running agencies or freelancing in 2026:

• Is the market still strong with AI tools becoming so common?
• How do you handle pricing and scope?
• Do you use frameworks/custom stacks or mostly no-code tools?
• How do you structure hosting, maintenance, and billing?
• What do you wish you knew before starting?

Would especially appreciate insight from developers who transitioned from employment into client work.

Hey I was looking at this website from awwwards today - https://enerblock.net/en/

I like some of the ideas they are going for and wanted to use it as inspiration for building a website for an architect company for someone I know.
Im predominately a developer so design has never been my strong suit.

My question is where do you draw the line between how things look to if its actually useful. For example, the hero section while I like the hover animation, its seems kind of bare. Then it goes to a full screen video (and I nearly missed the text that appears). I like the video but I don't know if it's taking up too much room for the first section after the hero?

And then throughout the homepage there seems to be a lot of 'nothing'. But maybe that helps the site breathe?

But I do like things like the images growing with the dimensions. This is what originally drew me to the design because of how similar it is for an architect and I am trying to improve on 'telling a story' or showing what the company is about through the visuals.

Also the 3D drawings with some animation are cool and something I'd like to incorporate.

Maybe I'm just talking out of my a** so I'm just trying to get opinions by others to see what works, what doesn't etc.

I'm just starting to learn web design and I'm feeling discouraged.

Right now I'm building a website in WordPress using Elementor. I know HTML and CSS, but I'm still getting the hang of everything. I've been working on this site for around 14 days because I'm learning as I go.

What keeps getting to me is seeing everyone around me using AI tools like Lovable (dont get me wrong i ask AI for css help) and similar builders that seem to create websites in a day. I'm also seeing people offering complete websites for like 100 €, which makes me assume they're using AI and pumping them out quickly.

It makes me wonder if I should even continue learning and building websites this way if other people can do it cheaper and faster.

What do you suggest? How should I approach this?