MD System is a typeface for general practice: a workhorse grotesque, combining a rational family layout with an appearance that embraces the human hand.

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You might remember Gawker as an aughts-era blog with all the visual hallmarks of that moment’s web design trends: bright logo, white background, infinite scroll. If you were to visit Gawker today, you might not recognize it at all. Relaunched in 2021 by BDG, the digital conglomerate that started in

The product design playbook I use to break down and execute on design projects.

“Excited to (finally) release dark mode in @figma . Behind the scenes, making this happen required some significant changes to our color system. For more about how it works, @pwnies and I are giving a talk about the new system at Config! https://t.co/3VVwiEp6zX”

Listboxes and dropdowns are compact UI controls that allow users to select options. Listboxes expose options right away and support multi-selection while dropdowns require a click to see options and support only single-selection.

“I just rebuilt Apple Music on iOS using React and Framer Motion. This app is a treasure trove of tiny, beautiful details and I wanted to break down everything I noticed along the way. Let's get started!”

“1 + 1 = 3 (or more)” is an important design effect described by Josef Albers and Edward Tufte. It means that two elements in close proximity cause a visible interaction…

The length of text lines substantially impacts their readability — yet this is often overlooked in e-commerce. See our latest test findings on line length readability.

Of all the things that the W3C has published, my favorite is the priority of constituencies. That’s quite a statement given the W3C published the standards that form the foundation of the web and, by extension, my career. But the priority of constituencies has always deeply resonated with me. What happens if we apply it to design systems?

How to create great looking websites while having little design skill.

...there was a lot announced at Config 2022!

An Open Source collection of Design Principles and methods

Over two years ago, we released Leonardo: the first-of-its-kind contrast ratio based color generation tool. Since then, Leonardo has…

Yahoo! JAPAN achieved a passwordless identity system. Learn their approach and the consequences of the effort.

Design faster and manage coded UI – all without developers' help. Use Merge Component manager to easily bring and control coded components in UXPin.

Google’s most popular font gets customizable with the launch of Roboto Flex, a #variablefont with a huge range of weights, widths, optical sizes, grades – and even parametric axes.

Create, edit and save Tailwind CSS color shades based on a given hexcode or pick a color from an image.

Personal website of Maykel Loomans, a digital product designer from the Netherlands.

Accessible is a newsletter covering all things assistive tech. Approximately once per month, we release a public database of products based on reader requests. Accessible does not accept funding from any companies covered in order to showcase the opinions of product users faithfully.

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Buttons are used to interact with the application (e.g., to submit forms) or navigate between pages.

Modern MacPaint made with tldraw

All the mouse cursor icons as downloadable SVGs and PNGs

News and insights on Google platforms, tools, and events.

How Agile leaves design out, and what we can do about it.

A get-right-down-to-it online course for Web designers and developers who want to start creating more accessible Web user interfaces and digital products today