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And how to make the spacers handy and transparent with the help of components

In this article, Kate Kalcevich explains when to use ARIA and how to use it properly so that you can use ARIA in a way that’s helpful to the many disabled people who use [assistive technology](https://makeitfable.com/glossary/?utm_source=Smashing+Magazine&utm_medium=sponsored+content&utm_campaign=Upskill&utm_term=Fable&utm_content=Sept2022) to navigate the Internet. Let’s dive in!

Test text fields for inputmode: decimal, email, verbatim, none, numeric, search, tel, text and url

Color & Contrast is a comprehensive guide to color for user interface designers.

Autocomplete / Combobox / Search autocomplete features are provided at 80% of e-commerce sites, yet only 19% achieve the highest performance. See our latest large-scale test findings for on-site search.

Figma Community plugin - Create translucent versions of your colors within seconds! Alphredo for Figma generates translucent (alpha) colors looking the same as their opaque counterparts when placed against the same background. ⏯ Check out this YouTube video to discover how can transparent palettes change...

Figma Community plugin - Trim your text elements, removing space above capital letters and below the baseline. Make text behave the same as every other element in your layout. This plugin works by nesting and offsetting text elements within frames. To achieve the same behaviour in a browser, check out Capsize which thi...

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Error messages need to be easy to spot, but they also need to be helpful. Let’s explore when error messages should live above input fields and why toast error messages are usually not a very good idea.

Figma Community plugin - A powerful tool for finding and selecting elements, you can flexibly cross select various elements by various attributes of the element. Supported languages: Chinese, English, Spanish. 一个强大的查找和选择元素的工具，你可以通过元素的各种属性来灵活的交叉选择各种元素，支持中英、西班牙语。 If helpful please click the ❤️. 🔍 支持以下过滤方式 Supported filt...

All the relevant, latest resources to help you create your design system.

In this first part of a two-part article, Eduard Kuric analyzes the characteristics of effective toggle buttons that make it error-proof and prevent confusion and frustration of users.

The problem of how to design an effective toggle button that shows the selected option clearly is a long-term open question among UI/UX designers. In this second part, Eduard Kuric explains a complex list of visual cues used by toggle buttons to communicate which of their options is active.

How to build Figma plugins

A library of React Hooks that provides accessible UI primitives for your design system.

Figma plugin for viewing and editing documentation. Save docs to a component and view in a working file.

In western text, which reads left to right, justification and hyphenation are basic considerations for readability and clarity. But have you ever thought about how you can use them to create a look/feel that alludes to the literary culture of the past?

A guide around how to mark up tabs

The Lyft Design Systems team share how they prioritize parity across iOS and Android.

Navigating the individual contributor career path

The web is the default language of design systems right now. Any discussion about design systems is assumed to be talking about the web. And I get it. I love the web. The web is an amazing medium, but it is not the only way our customers interact with our products. A lot of the products we work on are not just web applications. As a community I want us to break outside web centric mindset and take a more holistic view to include all the ways we can help deliver experiences to our customers. Let's explore some the ways we can incorporate other platforms into our design systems.

Android O introduces an new application icon format called adaptive icons, intended to make all icons on a device more coherent. This post…

Data dashboard UX patterns, and UI examples, plus ways to elevate your data and deliver the best possible experience to users.

We are very excited to announce the release of the React Aria and React Spectrum date and time picker components! This includes a full suite of fully featured components and hooks including calendars, date and time fields, and range pickers, all with a focus on internationalization and accessibility. It also includes @internationalized/date, a brand new framework-agnostic library for locale-aware date and time manipulation.

Pixel-perfect web browser mockups for Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Brave.

Blog of Raph Levien. Nice gradient exploration tool across color spaces.

An introduction to these topics in relation to user interface design and design systems.

How to prototype advanced responsive designs in Figma using breakpoints and flexbox, and if its worth using plugins instead.

Our science-backed approach to updating a color system that supports over 100 products

“Should I use pixels or rems?”. In this comprehensive blog post, we'll answer this question once and for all. You'll learn about the accessibility implications, and how to determine the best unit to use in any scenario.