Iterating the GOV.UK Design System contribution model
Read about how the GOV.UK Design System team updated their contribution model to help the community get more involved.
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Design systems: focus on value through impact
We have achieved alignment to craft our design system, and our stakeholders are excited to start seeing the benefits in our product…
Subheadings, subtitles, alternative titles and taglines in HTML - TPGi
Until recently there was no dedicated method in HTML to identify content as a subheading, subtitle, alternative title or tagline. Now there is.
Right to left | Apple Developer Documentation
Support right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew by reversing your interface as needed to match the reading direction of the related scripts.
Right to Left Styling 101
An extensive guide on how to style for RTL in CSS
WhoCanUse
A tool that brings attention and understanding to how color contrast can affect people with different visual impairments.
Testing Sites And Apps With Blind Users: A Cheat Sheet — Smashing Magazine
While compliance with accessibility checklists is essential, it doesn’t necessarily mean a pleasant experience. That’s why live sessions can give you lots of priceless insights.
Introducing the popover API - Chrome Developers
Learn how to build tooltips, menus, and more with the new popover API.
Reset and Cancel Buttons
Most Web forms would have improved usability if the Reset button was removed. Cancel buttons are also often of little value on the Web.
Be Careful Using ‘Menu’
TL;DR: Be careful when using the word menu. Be certain you have chosen the term that accurately describes the control you want. If this post looks familiar to you, that is because it is essentially a redress of my 2020 post Stop Using ‘Drop-down’. It is not as divergent as…
Meeting WCAG Level AAA - TetraLogical
Accessibility consultancy with a focus on inclusion. We can help you with knowledge, experience, strategy, assessments, and development.
Making Moves: Designing Motion for 2022 Wrapped
Simple brief, complex executions: UX Motion Designer Ade shares his journey on bringing 2022 Wrapped's data stories to life.
The Best Handoff Is No Handoff — Smashing Magazine
Design handoffs are inefficient and painful. They cause frustration, friction and a lot of back and forth. Can we avoid them altogether? Of course we can! Let’s see how to do just that.
Usability Pitfalls of Disabled Buttons, and How To Avoid Them — Smashing Magazine
How can we make disabled buttons more inclusive? When do they work well, and when do they fail on us? And finally, when do we actually need them, and how can we avoid them? Let’s find out.
What we've learned about designing for accessibility from our users • Slack Design
Slack’s accessibility team recently launched a series of changes to make navigating around Slack more reliable and efficient for keyboard-only and screen reader users. While our accessibility had significantly improved over the last few years, we were still hearing from blind and low-vision users that moving around the interface felt disorienting and noisy. One user […]
Juice
What is Juice in software development. What is Game Feel & how it can it be used in non-game software. How software can fulfil emotional requirements. How to create software with soul. Examples of Juice on the web.
Shantell Sans → A font for you
A new typeface from Shantell Martin
Learn Images
An in-depth course on images for the web.
Usability Pitfalls of Disabled Buttons, and How To Avoid Them — Smashing Magazine
How can we make disabled buttons more inclusive? When do they work well, and when do they fail on us? And finally, when do we actually need them, and how can we avoid them? Let’s find out.
How Pinterest’s design systems team measures adoption
The Gestalt team tells us how they used Figma’s REST API to create FigStats, a dashboard for visualizing component usage.
Learn from the world's best mentors for free
Meet design mentors from over 40 countries for portfolio review, career advice, mock interviews or leadership advice — all in this global community.
Right to left - Foundations - Human Interface Guidelines - Design - Apple Developer
Support right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew by reversing your interface as needed to match the reading direction of the related scripts.
Simpleflow
Figma Community plugin - ⭐️ SimpleFlow makes it easy to create native FigJam connector inside Figma file, have fun! To use: Open SimpleFlow pluginClick on the button to copy the connector elementPaste it into the canvas and edit it! Feature: 👉 Automatically update the position 👉 Add extra label on the connector 👉 Custom...
Pattern Wise, System Foolish
Design systems are not pattern libraries, and abandoning them for "experimental" AI won't free us from constraints.
LCH colors in CSS: what, why, and how? – Lea Verou
The Folly of Design System “Foundations”
The idea of “foundations” is one of the biggest threats to creating a design system people use
It's time for a more sophisticated color contrast check for data visualizations - Datawrapper Blog
The WCAG contrast requirements are flawed. Here's what a new approach could mean for data visualizations.
How to deprecate old components in Figma design systems
A strategy to help ease some of the pain and confusion when deprecating unwanted components from your Figma design system.
Building a Figma plugin to automate your file setup
Customise this plugin template to make a handy design toolkit with useful automations and links for you and your team.
How to build a design system team
What is the best size for a design system team? Which profiles do you need? What skills should you look for? Everything you need to know to build the perfect design system team is right in this article!