
Design
Designing A Better Language Selector
How difficult can it be to design a bulletproof language selector? It’s not as straightforward as one might think. We need to avoid redirects, decouple our language and country presets, allow for overrides, and use non-modal windows. Let’s dive in!
Humane Design: Avoiding the term "User" - Documentation / Best-practices
It was Aral Balkan that put in strongest words that we should avoid the term “Users” when developing free software. That the term “User” is indicative of the dependency relationship that Big Tech and surveillance capitalism has created between people and the technology they use. One that it not dissimilar of a “drug addict doing drugs” i.e. a user of drugs. The argument is that abstracting people as “Users” in a way de-humanizes them. The thought is that by trying to avoid the term we ar...
Ahmad Shadeed on Twitter
💡 CSS :has allows us to check if the main section contains an error and adjust the header accordingly. Neat! 🤩.main:has(.alert--error) .header { border-top: 2px solid red; background-color: #fff4f4;}Article: https://t.co/tLTNSLxZo4Demo: https://t.co/tt7uXynXYr pic.twitter.com/IKkXsnOQhx— Ahmad Shadeed (@shadeed9) April 18, 2022
Tom Duscher on Twitter
Was wir fühlen, wenn wir sehen: Künstler:innen, Designer:innen und Forschende ergründen im neuen Kieler Science Communication Network die emotionale Wirkung visueller Darstellungen #wisskomm #scicomm https://t.co/U5j07ksfaP— Tom Duscher (@TomDuscher) March 10, 2022
Hiring Interviews Are Terrible: Smart UX Teams Structure Them
Asking job applicants unstructured interview questions is ineffective. Instead, UX teams should standardize their questions and evaluation criteria to identify qualified people and reduce unfair bias. For job seekers, learn to recognize smart UX teams by how they interview you.
Thoughts On Markdown
Markdown in all its flavors, interpretations, and forks won’t go away. However, it’s important to look at emerging content formats that try to encompass modern needs. In this article, Knut shares his advice against Markdown by looking back on why it was introduced in the first place, and by going through some of the major developments of content on the web.
Roboto Serif
Mit der Roboto Serif erweitert Google die vielfach eingesetzte Open-Source-Schriftsippe Roboto. Erstellt als variable Schrift, ist die Roboto Serif sehr umfangreich ausgebaut. Zu den Designachsen gehören: Strichstärke, Weite, optische Größe und Grauwert-Abstufung. Als Einzelschnitte kommt die Fam...
Spannende Masterarbeit über interkulturelles UX Design
Studentin Sanghee Park entwickelte nicht nur ein interkulturelles UX Design, sondern auch einen erweiterten Double-Diamond-Designprozess. HAWK Hildesheim. Die meisten von uns standen schon mal in einem fremden Land vor einem Automaten mit verwirrendem Interface. Je andersartiger die Kultur, desto schwieriger ist es auch, sich in den digitalen Umgebungen zurechtzufinden. Als gebürtige Südkoreanerin in Deutschland kennt...