The Mythology of Design Systems by Mina Markham
The Technical Side of Design Systems by Brad Frost
‘Eyeballing’ or Optical Alignment in Design
The problem with dropdown fields (and what you should use instead) | Design Smarts
Can we please style the control?!
What Would Language Look Like if We Simply Did Away with Gendered Pronouns? | | Eye on Design
Don Norman on how design fails older consumers
The McDonaldization of UX – UX Collective
Clinging to the familiar
What design tools get wrong | Kilian Valkhof
Cutting the jargon out of your creative work
How to Design Interruptions
Design Language System
[… ]A complete fully functional product that is easy on the eye and provides a pleasant, if not out of the world, experience. Key to this is following a design language. […]
A DevTools for Designers
What If You Have No Talent?
Optical corrections in logo design
Designing with purpose
John Maeda on What Really Matters in the World of Design
The World is Designed for Men – How Bias is Built into Our Daily Lives
7 Principles of Icon Design - Helena Zhang - Medium
Icons: avoid temptation and start with user needs - NHS Digital
Redesigning the Office App Icons to Embrace a New World of Work
Thoughts on the new official Apple app icon template
It’s not a squircle, it’s a roundrect!
Developing an Open Source Icon System at Microsoft
A Q+A between our community and design leads about our new Fluent icons.
The Market for Lemons - Infrequently Noted
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?
Truthish.
Whose sources, and whose truths?
Myths about Web Accessibility
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.
Accessibility and web performance are not features, they’re the baseline
In Plain Sight
Make commerce better for everyone