Design

Seemingly outmoded technologies sometimes hold the key to better user experiences.

So we are building a CAD or a drawing app. It has lots of handy tools and an infinitely large space. There’s enough room for drawings, notes, and anything else. We start with a blank page, literally…

Leonardo is an open source project from Adobe that helps you pick accessible colors. There’s a JavaScript API along with a browser tool that lets you select colors interactively. Color is a c…

Moderating a usability test? Follow these 10 simple steps to make your sessions go smoothly. Download an example facilitator guide at the bottom of this article.

From working with design handoffs to supporting custom themes in a design system, the CSS `color-contrast()` function can become a cornerstone for developers by enforcing accessible UIs.

Free loaders & spinners for your next project. Built with HTML, CSS and a soupçon of SVG. Available for React and copypasta.

Learn the most important UI design principles that will help you create a seamless user experience.

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OOUX is a philosophy and set of principles that help UX designers break down complexity, understand requirements, synthesize research, and facilitate collaboration.

A legible monospace font… the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood

A new study reveals that the speed at which you’re able to read online depends a lot on the font—and your age.

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!

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...

How Material used color science to make design easier and more expressive than ever before

Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography

All in One Bookmark Manager. For your inspiration, read later, media and stuff.

When I started giving talks about SVG back in 2016, I'd occasionally hear a question I never had a great answer for: What if you have a lot of icons on a page?

A hybrid online streaming and in-person meetup for web workers & designers about web accessibility & assistive technology — May 4th, 2022, Düsseldorf

💡 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

Reasonable Colors is an open-source color system that makes it easy to build accessible, nice-looking color palettes.

Corporate Memphis seems to be everywhere nowadays, but where did it come from? And how did it get to be so popular? We explore.