Design

Originally published @ fossheim.io. In the days around the 2020 US presidential elections a lot of p...

In the age of technology, data is everywhere. The volume of data we encounter can be overwhelming, especially if it relates a concept that is new to us or comes without context. What’s more, the rate of data being collected is doubling every two years!

How choosing the right colour and scales can make or break your message

With the rising popularity of the game, I attempt to explain the need for colorblind-friendly design, to make the game more accessible.

An approach for structuring color palettes to prevent contrast ratio issues.

A CLI utility to calculate/verify accessible magic numbers for a color palette. - darekkay/a11y-contrast

Freelance Front-End Web UI/UX Developer - Lebanon

Accessibility and aesthetics are not in conflict, despite the claims of some.

Find out who can use your color combination. Whocanuse is a tool that brings attention and understanding to how color contrast can affect different people that have visual impairments.

There’s a growing demand for designers to make their interfaces accessible to all users. It’s important to accommodate users with disabilities, but there are many myths to color contrast accessibility being perpetuated by misinformed people. They often parrot these myths to discredit a design, without understanding in which situations a color contrast standard applies. Not […]

Freelance Front-End Web UI/UX Developer - Lebanon

TL;DR: In general, I recommend underlining links in body content. In the absence of a better style appropriate for a specific site, this is the way to go. Overview It is amazing to me how this suggestion causes so much angst and fighting. Designers often argue that they look ugly,…

All the tools, tips and resources your need to build and check the color accessibility and color constrast of digital products!

Karwai Pun is an interaction designer currently working on Service Optimisation to make existing and new services better for our users. Karwai is part of an accessibility group at Home Office Digital, leading on autism. Together with the team, she’s created these …

Accessibility is an Adopter’s Job Too, and They’ve Got Work To Do

In today's article, Denis Boudreau explains that web accessibility is hard, complicated and you don’t need to care about all of that WCAG stuff.

How does a colorblind designer work with color? Not with his eyes! Instead David relies on reading color hex codes. He shares his process into understanding those six-digit codes and related insights into human vision, computer history, and digital color.

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. As designers, we need to remember that the same is true of color, and all visual abilities. UX Booth author and visual UX designer Nick Babich has a list of how-tos, to help make every design both beautiful and usable.

Accessible design is often reduced to adding alt text and avoiding colors imperceptible by colorblindness. While physical differences are an important component of accessible design, cognitive diff…

Two tools and some quick tips to easily create an accessible contrasted color palette for your designs, whether it's web, ui or even mobile design

There’s a lot of talk about accessible design, but have you ever thought about color accessibility?

According to Colour Blind Awareness 4.5% of the population are color-blind. If your audience is mostly male this increases to 8%. Designing for color-blind people can be easily forgotten because most designers aren’t color-blind. In this article I provide 13 tips to improve the experience for color-blind people – something which can often benefit people with normal vision too. There are many types of color blindness but it comes down to not seeing color clearly, getting colors mixed up, or not being able to differentiate between certain colors.

While the science behind color blindness is pretty complex, the gist of it is that color blind people have difficulty seeing color clearly or differentiating between some colors. With this in mind, in this article, we’ll share some tips on how you can improve your site’s accessibility and the experience it delivers for color blind people.

How to make themable, flexible, WCAG 2.1 compliant color ramps for a design system

There are an estimated 285 million people in the world who are visually impaired. This number includes anyone from legally blind, to those…

A complete guide to SVG icons in HTML pages, with the symbol sprites technique.

A complete guide to SVG icons in HTML pages, with the symbol sprites technique.