Do we have the right icons at hand to represent all humans?

It’s not a squircle, it’s a roundrect!

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

New web services are being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, and existing experiences are now pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks. At a business level, this is a disaster, raising the question: why are new teams buying into stacks that have failed so often before?

Am 19.September 1982 wurde das erste Emoticon verschickt :-). Seither verändert sich unsere Welt rasant in Richtung Post-Schrift-Gesellschaft.

Part I in a series that explores inclusive design at Betterment. This post focuses on making the case to remove the ‘gender question’ as well as some takeaways for building inclusive products.

Whose sources, and whose truths?

The Past, Present, & Future of Interfaces • A micro-book with incomplete observations on human-computer interfaces by Ehsan Noursalehi

trust, truth + joy

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.

Web Accessibility is a must in every web development project, yet it seems to remain a mystery for many web developers. Like it's something legendary instead of an essential skill needed for the job. There are many misconceptions surrounding Web Accessibility, most of the time fueled by a lack of knowledge (or interest) in the matter. This article is a collection of some of those accessibility misconceptions or myths. :: Blog post at Alvaro Montoro's Personal Website.

Good accessibility programs include things that go above and beyond just compliance with the WCAG guidelines

It’s more important than ever to consider mental health while designing.

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.

There’s more to a link than just a clickable word or image. So, how do you create the perfect link? Rian tells you in our blog!

[…] 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.

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.

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