The `prefers-reduced-motion` media query has excellent support in all modern browsers going back a couple of years. In this article, Michelle Barker explains why there’s no reason not to use it today to make your sites more accessible.

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.

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...

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

How designers have succeeded and failed in our daily lives

I’ve been a fan of Japanese style design since I started my career as a designer. The uniqueness of culture, lifestyle, and relationship…

Rebranding the Wise design system for everyone.

In this piece, we dig into the decreasing gap between design and code, increasing semantics, and one of Figma’s newest features: variables.

Accessibility experts Léonie Watson and Rakesh Paladugula discuss the importance of and how to design for accessibility

New web services are being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, and existing experiences are now pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks. At a business level, this is a disaster, raising the question: why are new teams buying into stacks that have failed so often before?

A guide to design for the brain with intention and results.

This article deals with font usage in Big Sur 11.x through Ventura 13.x. Its main purpose is to show you where fonts are located on your system and which can be safely deactivated (where applicable).

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

The inspirations behind the techwear seen in games like Death Stranding often come from the same place

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.

There is no shortage of opinions about today’s news that Adobe will be acquiring Figma, so I’ll try not to repeat any of what’s already been said here. A lot of it boils down to designers and engineers being understandably …