UX or PX? Why naming matters.
From components to job titles, human systems design could be our identity for the future
The hardest working font in Manhattan
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
Making Numbers in Web Content Accessible - TPGi
Numbers are a key part of web content. It makes sense, then, that when we use numbers, they must be accessible.
a11yVox Product Accessibility Guidelines
Making work accessible creates a better experience across the board. Use this checklist to help build accessibility into your process no matter your role or stage in a project.
Friedrich Forssman über das neue Reclam Design
Friedrich Forssman ist vielen Typografieliebhabern und Designern durch die Standardwerke »Detailtypografie« und »Lesetypografie« bekannt. Er ist einer der führenden Buchgestalter Deutschlands. Zusammen mit seiner Frau, der Textildesigerin Cornelia Feyll, hat er seit einigen Jahren Einzelwerke und Reihen für den Reclam-Verlag neu gestaltet, zuletzt die Universal-Bibliothek, auch bekannt als »Reclam-Hefte«. Klassiker wie die Reclam-Hefte neu zu […]
An Introduction to Accessibility and Inclusive Design
Offered by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This course introduces some of the fundamental principles of accessibility and ... Enroll for free.
I wrote a web book. It’s called Resilient Web Design. It’s yours for free. I hope you like it. resilientwebdesign.com
Breaking down a design
Thanks to Amy Hupe, I learned that there's such a thing as National Blog Posting Month (#NaBloPoMo for short), and it starts today. So here we go with post n...
The decline in Design (Thinking)
How designers have succeeded and failed in our daily lives
Accessibility and Inclusivity: Study Guide
Unsure where to start? Use this collection of links to our articles and videos to learn more about accessible and inclusive design.
An intro to designing accessible data visualizations by Sarah L. Fossheim
10 dos and don'ts for designing accessible data visualizations, including real-life examples and resources
Usability Testing of Icons
Icon Usability
Due to the absence of a standard usage for individual icons, text labels are necessary to communicate meaning and reduce ambiguity in an icon-based design.
Myth #13: Icons enhance usability - UX Myths
UX Myths collects the most frequent user experience misconceptions and explains why they don't hold true.
3 questions to evaluate design patterns and avoid unnecessary work that degrades UX
Stop Doing Design System Projects
Your design system is not a project.
10 Key Takeaways from Google’s Material Design Guidelines
UI & UX best practices from Google’s design system documentation.
Building a Visual Language
Behind the scenes of our new design system (Airbnb)
The Way We Build
How rethinking the Airbnb app changed the way we approach design
Design Systems For Figma: Bringing Context To Design Systems
Hayley Hughes, UX Manager working on the Polaris Design System at Shopify discusses the importance of context in working on design systems.
UI Bugs
Documenting UI bugs to show that all UI developers make mistakes. This blog will showcase bugs in large and popular websites and apps.
Leading-Trim: The Future of Digital Typesetting
How an emerging CSS standard can fix old problems and raise the bar for web apps
The Onion for Design Systems: Atomic Design and Pace Layering
Understand Atomic Design with Pace Layering to assist Design Systems’ construction and maintenance
Text for Proofing Fonts
The State Of Pixel Perfection
RT @shadeed9: I wrote "look & feel" since I don't look for pixel perfection. It's not relevant today. Here is why:
Introducing Storybook Args. Next-gen, dynamic component examples | by Michael Shilman | Storybook | Jul, 2020 | Medium
The design systems we swim in
Through a design system, darkly
The design systems between us
Decoding Google’s secret UX weapon - UX Collective