The euphemism Special Needs, after many years of service, has filed for retirement. Nondisabled people receive countless supports, so why should supports for disabled people get treated as something extra? The only difference between accommodations for nondisabled and disabled people is ableism. That’s why the overworked Special Needs decided the time had come to move on. The video is an excerpt from the White House #DisabilityPride Month Convening. Descriptive Transcript: Haben Girma speaks on stage, sitting with a Braille computer on her lap. Also sitting on stage are, from left to right, Gene Sperling, Mychal Threets @mychal, and Eric Harris. The camera also shows a lively, diverse group in the audience, including people with wheelchairs. Haben: The biggest challenge, in schools, medical centers, workplaces, is ableism. Ableism is the system of belief that treats disabled people as inferior to nondisabled people. When I arrived in college, I discovered the menus in the cafeteria ...
Design & Interactive Experiences
Interactive text fields for PDFs? Here’s how to do it on good old Adobe InDesign 🪄 #adobe #adobeindesign #brandingdesigner
I’ve documented over 100 AI products this year - you can see them at Teardowns.ai - and I’ve interviewed designers on Adobe’s AI teams. Here’s what I’m seeing: There are 5 different types of interfaces for AI. (immersive, integrated, dual track, dialog, and voice) Today I’m going to show you Dual Tracking. The concept is pretty simple: You just have two separate workflows side by side. For example, [Copy.ai](http://Copy.ai) puts a document editor on the right and the AI prompt builder on the left. The primary workflow in this example is to write a document. But you can move between manually editing the document itself, or walking through the AI workflow of editing parameters and confirming the AI output before you insert it into your document. This also exists in apps like Gamma, where the AI chatbot is in a sidebar on the right and the primary workflow - building a presentation - is on the left. A lot of times you see this sort of pattern of having two complex workflows side by sid...
Figma pulls AI tool after criticism that it ripped off Apple’s design
The company pulled the rollout of the beta feature.
Salary.design - Open Database of Design Salaries
Explore the open database of design salaries. Promoting transparency and pay equity among design professionals globally, across industries and experience levels
Designing better target sizes
An interactive guide on designing better target sizes on the web.
How Google ruined the web
The web is filled with content designed for Google, not humans.
W3C TAG Ethical Web Principles
The web should be a platform that helps people
and provides a positive social benefit.
As we continue to evolve the web platform,
we must therefore consider the consequences of our work.
The following document sets out ethical principles
that will drive the W3C's continuing work in this direction.
A Global Design System
TL;DR: This is a call to action to create a Global Design System that provides the world's web designers & developers a library of common UI components. A Global Design System would improve the quality and accessibility of the world's web experiences, save the world's web designers and developer
Miriam (still) (@mia@front-end.social)
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social @argyleink I'm a big fan of * { all: initial; } to demo the importance of browser styles.
How to grow as a designer if you're not getting good feedback
How to deal with being a UX team of one or working with vague stakeholders
Friction as a fix
Adding a little friction to experiences can help users slow down in those moments they may need to
Getting Started with AI for UX
Use generative-AI tools to support and enhance your UX skills — not to replace them. Start with small UX tasks, and watch out for hallucinations and bad advice.
Learn Figma Faster
I’m creating a comprehensive series of educational videos on how to learn Figma quickly
Voicing Erasure
Ableist interactions
Hidde's blog about web accessibility, standards, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and more.
Apple – Accessibility – Sady (with Audio Descriptions)
View this film without Audio Descriptions: https://www.youtu.be/XB4cjbYywqgWe believe that technology should be accessible to everyone — including Sady Pauls...
The Greatest | Apple
At Apple, we believe accessibility is a human right. Innovative features like Door Detection, Sound Recognition, Voice Control, and more are designed to let ...
The usability problem with prompt-driven AI
As the GenAI hype dust settles — it’s time to start thinking about usability and the opportunity it presents to address declining…
Risk tolerance: why some countries prefer more complex UIs
An analysis of Uncertainty Avoidance and Amazon’s website in various countries
Build Bridges, Not Walls - Design for Users Across Cultures - Jenny Shen btconf Berlin 2018
A talk at beyond tellerrand // BERLIN 2018Build Bridges, Not Walls – Design for Users Across CulturesAs Internet access expands to the far corners of the wor...
Speedtest Global Index – Internet Speed around the world – Speedtest Global Index
Find out which countries have the fastest internet speeds in the world. View global monthly comparisons of fixed and mobile internet speeds.
Statcounter Global Stats - Browser, OS, Search Engine including Mobile Usage Share
Tracks the Usage Share of Search Engines, Browsers and Operating Systems including Mobile from over 5 billion monthly page views.
Country comparison tool
Please select a country in the dropdown menu below to see the values for the 6 dimensions. After a first country has been selected, a second and even a third country can be chosen to be able to see a comparison of their scores.
Uncertainty Avoidance – Clearly Cultural
AR for everyone: How to build accessible augmented reality UX
Explaining accessibility guidelines for AR apps
Design good practices
Guidelines to naming conventions, components structure and document organization.
KFC apologises after German Kristallnacht promotion
The fast-food chain urged German customers to commemorate the Nazi pogrom with cheesy chicken.
Resolving complex forms with OOUX
Simplify complex forms by recognizing complex objects.
Why do we fall for brand illusions?
Deep dive into the Payless “Palessi” experiment to understand the psychology of UX and Design