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There’s a lot of “same-ness” across design systems. Yesenia Perez-Cruz said it well:

Design systems should solve problems that designers confront over and over again, so that they can turn to more interesting challenges.

In today's GUI Challenge, @AdamArgyleInk builds a wide gamut color palette with okLCH, checking accessible color pairs along the way, inspecting color with d...

Netscape 6.0 is finally going into its first public beta. There never was a version 5.0. The last major release, version 4.0, was released almost three years ago. Three years is an awfully long tim…

Sir Uncle Timbo (Tim Berners-Lee to you) famously designed the web for all people, whatever their hardware, software, language, location, or ability. As mobile devices become ubiquitous, yet controlled by a de facto duopoly, how can we ensure that the web remains open, affordable, and accessible for our 3 billion neighbours who are as yet unconnected? This session is from the Development Track. About the Speaker: Bruce was a member of the committee that drafted the British Standard for commissioning accessible websites, and an editor of the HTML5.3 spec for the W3C. He’s also a musician and has been a Bollywood movie extra, tutor to a Princess in Thailand, a tarot reader in Istanbul and arrested (mistakenly!) for espionage in Moscow. Learn more about axe-con at https://www.deque.com/axe-con/

Evaluating new web technologies and using them safely

Accessibility consultancy with a focus on inclusion. We can help you with knowledge, experience, strategy, assessments, and development.

Explore our free collection of design systems courses taught by Ethan Marcotte.

I think text-generation “AI” will succeed entirely on the merit that most people just don’t like writing. They just don’t wanna do it. They have to do it, because job, but they’d rather not. It’s not a part of their role that they enjoy. It’s certainly not a fun break from other duties. They may […]

A call to slow down in a fast-moving world.

Hi hi hi. Robin here. It’s Saturday. I’m up early, dressed, eated, walked. Now: under an awning outside my favorite cafe in the city, with the rain making a...

A riff on a post by Robb Owen

@elly@front-end.social I know this feeling to well. (I’m still refining my approach, so take all of this with a grain of salt.) If there is a tonne, I would avoid being exhaustive or overly detailed. I try to limit my auditing sessions to a fixed amount of time so that it doesn’t turn into an endless task or wear on me mentally. In situations where there’s a lot, I think it’s more important to call that out, but then focus on the high impact issues. Those will help a client get a sense of where to start and the resources they’ll need for it (which might include followup audits). Also, remember: you didn’t make this mess and you don’t need to burn yourself out to fix it.

There are many lovely open source icon sets out there, but sometimes, we just need to 'transcend' them. Product Designer Gleb Stroganov shows us how to craft customized icons by leveraging product font styles, bridging two key interface elements—and giving our products some serious style.

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A tool to visualize color choices and color palettes on a real website to help with branding and UI design decision making.

Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

In this tutorial, we’ll use HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript to add an accessible theme picker component to a website.

While a custom CSS scrollbar may seem flashy and fun, consider that it may present a significant, unnecessary barrier to access…

All the AI design hype got me twitching enough to write about the business risks of working so high-fidelity so fast.

I’m concerned about what the Twitter/Mastodon/BlueSky debate means for the webdev community at large. Have we split ourselves in two?

In the early 80s, my mom worked a couple shifts a month at a little small-town food co-op that smelled like nutritional mummy. She brought home

Is there a connection between programming and ADHD? And could it be that people with ADHD are particularly well-suited to programming careers?

In this video, Brad walks through this chart detailing a design system governance process: https://coggle.it/diagram/XTZ3TKMV3SdbE6Pq/t/product-team-comes-to-design-help-design-and-build-new-work/6a980806f82da5777174934f9cd27fdb6f4b06c9c211ac92191a7619e1aa8e6b

Accessibility consultancy with a focus on inclusion. We can help you with knowledge, experience, strategy, assessments, and development.

The JAMstack, static site, serverless revolution has started. A lot of people working with clients think they can't use this amazing new architecture because their clients want very specific things. This site is meant to help you solve your clients' needs while getting to use the JAMstack!

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.