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…

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

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

Lessons learned from bootstrapping a small design system from scratch

When I encounter inexperienced designers, there’s one thing that always sticks out about the way they think. Or more specifically, the way they don’t think. They don’t think of every design project…

As interaction designers on Red Hat's User Experience (UX) Design and Ansible product teams, we worked for about six months to build a logo family with the Ansible community. This journey started even earlier when a project manager asked us for a "quick and easy" logo for a slide deck. After gathering a few requirements, we presented a logo to the stakeholders within a few days and without much need for iteration. A few months later, another stakeholder decided they would also benefit from having imagery for their materials, so we repeated the process.

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by Cristian Bosch | Jun, 2020 | UX Collective

Ideas for transitioning visual design into maintainable HTML & CSS