When I first heard Nicole Sullivan talk about OOCSS, I thought “Oooh, smart.” When I read Jonathan Snook’s riff on that idea in SMACSS I thought “Oooh, smart.” When I heard Harry Roberts say “never use IDs in your CSS files” I said “Oooh, smart.”

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.

When interacting with generative-AI bots, users engage in six types of conversations, depending on their skill levels and their information needs. Interfaces for UI bots should support and accommodate this diversity of conversation styles.

Der Gesetzgeber fordert ab 2025 von vielen Website-Betreibern, dass sie ihren Online-Auftritt für Menschen mit Behinderung optimieren.

💎 Double Diamond Is Not How Most Companies Work (https://lnkd.in/eaH_vKzf). Here’s how the work actually gets done in real-life and where design has most… | 66 comments on LinkedIn

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

Considering the availability of modern tools and recent advancements in governance (design systems), one might think designers could relax…

Advice I gave someone who thought that introducing design thinking might make their organization more UX mature.

Rebranding the Wise design system for everyone.

The digital interface landscape is undergoing a significant transformation, with generative AI interfaces leading the charge. These…

I wrote A Modern CSS Reset almost 4 years ago and, yeh, it’s not aged overly well. I spotted it being linked up again a few days ago and thought it’s probably a good idea to publish an updated version. I know I also have a terrible record with open source maintenance, so I thought […]

Practical Styling in Forced Colors Mode, by Mike Herchel for #id24 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlx70ABSAP0&list=PLn7dsvRdQEfHjluJsuzNto9PFhAsG3Hwb&index=9

Eric asks: Do we need to develop WCAG 3 at this moment? Or is WCAG 2 still good enough?

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