A guide to design for the brain with intention and results.

This article deals with font usage in Big Sur 11.x through Ventura 13.x. Its main purpose is to show you where fonts are located on your system and which can be safely deactivated (where applicable).

The title of this post is pretty specific. It relates to the meme on Twitter where users identify a trait or preference that they see as problematic, and identify it as a red flag. The emoji represents the red flag. For example: A stylized red flag Blaming Screen Readers 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩…

Actionable tips on how to nail WCAG 2.1 color compliance.

Simple dashboard design tips to help you build your dream dashboard, from using size to show hierarchy, to grouping related metrics. Become a dashboard-design pro

The inspirations behind the techwear seen in games like Death Stranding often come from the same place

Lessons learned from bootstrapping a small design system from scratch

Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles for interaction design. They are called "heuristics" because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines.

There is no shortage of opinions about today’s news that Adobe will be acquiring Figma, so I’ll try not to repeat any of what’s already been said here. A lot of it boils down to designers and engineers being understandably …

Christine highlights some of Figma’s features and possibilities to help you build a design that aligns with code as much as needed and improve your team work.

Whose sources, and whose truths?

Design can never truly be free of culture, gender, and bias.  Our pursuit of a neutral and universal design may bring us to modernism, minimalism, and the Apple-esque aesthetic, but these design schools, inspired by eurocentric standards, carry qualities associated with masculinity. How can we go beyond the stereotypical binary view of masculine and feminine and create more universal, inclusive designs? Genderfluidity can give us a hint about the future of design and culture.

UX is about function, but also delight, whimsy, wit and beauty. But when it comes to accessibility, we tend to take the term literally…

We are surrounded by a world of motion and I would like to get off of it

In this article, we will explore how an accessibility-first approach can lead you down the path of creating a better visual design for charts. Throughout the article, you’ll learn to use the Web Content Accessibility Standards and how this approach leadd to an unexpected yet better outcome for everyone.

A small project debunking common accessibility myths.

Have you wondered how to anchor accessibility in an engineering team, one that isn’t yet producing accessible sites or apps? Some options to start with, for further refinement and discussion.

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.

Look at the image above. Don’t you feel some colors are brighter than others? For example, between the yellow and blue: which is brighter?

I’m sitting here contemplating my new and rather mysterious condition Long-Covid and wondering how this is changing the way I, and many…

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