Christine highlights some of Figma’s features and possibilities to help you build a design that aligns with code as much as needed and improve your team work.

Whose sources, and whose truths?

Design can never truly be free of culture, gender, and bias.  Our pursuit of a neutral and universal design may bring us to modernism, minimalism, and the Apple-esque aesthetic, but these design schools, inspired by eurocentric standards, carry qualities associated with masculinity. How can we go beyond the stereotypical binary view of masculine and feminine and create more universal, inclusive designs? Genderfluidity can give us a hint about the future of design and culture.

UX is about function, but also delight, whimsy, wit and beauty. But when it comes to accessibility, we tend to take the term literally…

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

In this article, we will explore how an accessibility-first approach can lead you down the path of creating a better visual design for charts. Throughout the article, you’ll learn to use the Web Content Accessibility Standards and how this approach leadd to an unexpected yet better outcome for everyone.

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

What is concept testing and how can you use it to improve your design process? Learn how concept testing works and the tools to help you get started.

(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.

Why an object-oriented UX approach helps build scalable and consistent systems