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.

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

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I spent 10% of my life contributing to the development of the #VisionPro while I worked at Apple as a Neurotechnology Prototyping Researcher in the Technology Development Group. It’s the longest I’ve ever worked on a single effort. I’m proud and relieved that it’s finally…

Simple dashboard design tips to help you build your dream dashboard, from using size to show hierarchy, to grouping related metrics. Become a dashboard-design pro

Lessons learned from bootstrapping a small design system from scratch

Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles for interaction design. They are called "heuristics" because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines.

Everything you need to know about what makes a button great.

How difficult can it be to design a bulletproof language selector? It’s not as straightforward as one might think. We need to avoid redirects, decouple our language and country presets, allow for overrides, and use non-modal windows. Let’s dive in!

We often talk about design systems as singular entities. "The design system saves time and increases quality." "Oh, the design system provides that." "Update to the latest version of the design system." The reality is that a design system is a multi-faceted layer cake, and also operates as part of o

Look at the image above. Don’t you feel some colors are brighter than others? For example, between the yellow and blue: which is brighter?

How to prepare for the future.

Your design system is not a project.

UI & UX best practices from Google’s design system documentation.

Behind the scenes of our new design system (Airbnb)

How rethinking the Airbnb app changed the way we approach design

Hayley Hughes, UX Manager working on the Polaris Design System at Shopify discusses the importance of context in working on design systems.

RT @shadeed9: I wrote "look & feel" since I don't look for pixel perfection. It's not relevant today. Here is why:

by Cristian Bosch | Jun, 2020 | UX Collective