Design

Liking an idea does not mean the idea is exempt from criticism…

KI-Generatoren wie ChatGPT, DALL-E oder DiffusionBee können für OER hilfreiche Werkzeuge sein. Wie man KI-Output richtig lizenziert.

How “Exclusive Accordions” hinder especially people with disabilities to efficiently use web pages, and why that is a reason to be careful about making it easy to implement them.

When I first heard Nicole Sullivan talk about OOCSS, I thought “Oooh, smart.” When I read Jonathan Snook’s riff on that idea in SMACSS I thought “Oooh, smart.” When I heard Harry Roberts say “never use IDs in your CSS files” I said “Oooh, smart.”

Animation and accessibility are often seen as two separate powers at odds with one another. How is it possible to strike a balance between elements that move and the possible negative effects they expose to users who are sensitive to motion? Oriana García explains how her team at Mercado Libre tackled the challenge by creating guiding principles for applying animation to user interfaces and incorporating them into the team’s design system.

Optimize and adjust for users who prefer an opaque UI.

When interacting with generative-AI bots, users engage in six types of conversations, depending on their skill levels and their information needs. Interfaces for UI bots should support and accommodate this diversity of conversation styles.

Practical tips I wish I'd had for navigating the intersection between web accessibility and internationalization/localization.

An innovative superfamily of fonts for code

Shows fonts supplied with Windows10 and Mac OS X, Google Noto, & SIL, by script.

A place to hold discussions on i18n topics, and to put documents that summarise, support or initiate those discussions. - w3c/i18n-discuss

Thanks to Amy Hupe, I learned that there's such a thing as National Blog Posting Month (#NaBloPoMo for short), and it starts today. So here we go with post n...

A modern alternative to CSS resets. Contribute to necolas/normalize.css development by creating an account on GitHub.

This reset library precisely targets only the styles that need normalizing to make browsers render all elements more consistently.

Create new colors based on another color's channels and values.

Drawio GitHub Integration

I recently added dark mode support to my website. While doing so I found a neat trick to make SVG images that changes colors depending on if dark mode is active or not.

Geist is a typeface made for developers and designers, embodying Vercel's design principles of simplicity, minimalism, and speed, drawing inspiration from the renowned Swiss design movement.

Der Gesetzgeber fordert ab 2025 von vielen Website-Betreibern, dass sie ihren Online-Auftritt für Menschen mit Behinderung optimieren.

HTML is the language of the Web, there’s a quality standard—expectation—for HTML, but we don’t make use of it, yet if we would, it would come with several advantages, one of them being that it could unite and propel us to master more important challenges, which would be good again for our field and the Web.

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Scrollbars. Ever heard of them? They’re pretty cool. Click and drag on a scrollbar and you can move content around in a scrollable content pane. I love that shit. Every day I am scrolling on my computer, all day long. But the scrollbars are getting smaller and this is increasingly becoming a problem. I would show you screenshots but they’re so small that even screenshotting them is hard to do. And people keep making them even smaller, hiding them away, its like they don’t want you to scroll! “Ah”, they say, “that’s what the scroll wheel is for”. My friend, not everyone can use a scroll wheel or a swipe up touch screen. And me, a happy scroll-wheeler, even I would like to quickly jump around some time.

“Prove your value.” “Justify your presence.” “Demonstrate impact.” Too many organizations have convinced designers that they’re the…

From Wikipedia: Where the Wild Things Are is a 1963 children's picture book written and illustrated by American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, originally published in hardcover by Harper & Row. The book has been adapted into other media several times, including an a

Considering the availability of modern tools and recent advancements in governance (design systems), one might think designers could relax…

How we made a globally recognisable and scalable icon library.

How designers have succeeded and failed in our daily lives

Let's be clear about this: Accessibility is not a feature. Inaccessibility is a bug. If your software or website is inaccessible, that renders it unusable to the end user. It is broken, in other words. #AccessibilityMatters #AccessibilityIsNotAFeature #DisabilityRights #Accessibility #Disability #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareBug #Web #UX #UXDesign