I’ve been reading lots more non-fiction books than normal. And I’m getting increasingly annoyed about footnotes1. Footnotes are a weird skeuomorph hangover from the days of printed text…

Documenting everything through the journey of learning web accessibility.

Understand Atomic Design with Pace Layering to assist Design Systems’ construction and maintenance

[…] how we can improve websites legibility using some modern CSS techniques, great new technologies like variable fonts and putting into practise what we learned from doing scientific researches.

RT @shadeed9: I wrote "look & feel" since I don't look for pixel perfection. It's not relevant today. Here is why:

[…] I mean, I get it: you’re literally leaving money on the table if you turn people away. But that’s not the reason to ensure your website is accessible. The reason to ensure that your website is accessible is that it’s the right thing to do. […]

Fluent brings the fundamentals of principled design, innovation in technology, and customer needs together as one. It’s a collective approach to creating simplicity and coherence through a shared, open design system across platforms. Open ecosystem, open design system.

A Q+A between our community and design leads about our new Fluent icons.

A guide to how we designed and built our design system in 8 steps