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We are surrounded by a world of motion and I would like to get off of it

Die hier kurz vorgestellten Apps liegen dem Autor entweder als Testversion oder mit erworbener Lizenz vor. Das Hauptkriterium zur Auswahl war eine aktive Entwicklung der Programme.

Have you wondered how to anchor accessibility in an engineering team, one that isn’t yet producing accessible sites or apps? Some options to start with, for further refinement and discussion.

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

… an open-source, privacy-first web font platform designed to put privacy back into the internet. With a zero-tracking and no-logging policy, Bunny Fonts helps you stay fully GDPR compliant and puts your user's personal data into their own hands.

Is your design system really a system …or is it more like a collection of components?

A few relevant analogies, important references to inspirational figures, and the case made for refusing to wait a minute longer.

An interview with Senior Visual Designer leading icons and design systems for Google Fonts, Sehee Lee

The HIG contains guidance and best practices that can help you design a great experience for any Apple platform.

How typefaces impact emotions remains largely unstudied, but a new report suggests that different fonts can elicit different emotions.

When choosing typography to use in designs, narrow down your options by understanding the most common classifications, looking for typefaces with multiple variations and distinct characters, and pairing typefaces together with consistency and readability in mind.

So we are building a CAD or a drawing app. It has lots of handy tools and an infinitely large space. There’s enough room for drawings, notes, and anything else. We start with a blank page, literally…

Inclusive design describes methodologies to create products that understand and enable people of all backgrounds and abilities. It may address accessibility, age, economic situation, geographic location, language, race, and more.

Oh… are we still talking about this?

A new study reveals that the speed at which you’re able to read online depends a lot on the font—and your age.

It was Aral Balkan that put in strongest words that we should avoid the term “Users” when developing free software. That the term “User” is indicative of the dependency relationship that Big Tech and surveillance capitalism has created between people and the technology they use. One that it not dissimilar of a “drug addict doing drugs” i.e. a user of drugs. The argument is that abstracting people as “Users” in a way de-humanizes them. The thought is that by trying to avoid the term we ar...

Corporate Memphis seems to be everywhere nowadays, but where did it come from? And how did it get to be so popular? We explore.

Asking job applicants unstructured interview questions is ineffective. Instead, UX teams should standardize their questions and evaluation criteria to identify qualified people and reduce unfair bias. For job seekers, learn to recognize smart UX teams by how they interview you.

Markdown in all its flavors, interpretations, and forks won’t go away. However, it’s important to look at emerging content formats that try to encompass modern needs. In this article, Knut shares his advice against Markdown by looking back on why it was introduced in the first place, and by going through some of the major developments of content on the web.

(Andrea Miquel) Bereits 2005 veröffentlichte das Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) eine Studie mit dem Titel „Why Software Fails“ („Warum Software scheitert“), die einige Fakten enthielt, die schockierender Weise auch heute noch aktuell sind. In jenem Jahr wurde geschätzt, dass weltweit eine Billion Dollar für IT-Projekte, einschließlich Hardware, Software und Dienstleistungen, ausgegeben […]

Exploring the impact of stress on our brains and subsequent online behaviours, and how this might be alleviated via compassionate design.

It’s one reason why so many UX designers are frustrated in their job and why many projects fail. And it’s also why we often can’t sell research: every decision-maker is confident in their own menta…

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