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WCAG 3 will use a new color contrast method called APCA (Advanced Perceptual Contrast Algorithm).It's a big improvement over the current system but there are a lot of changes to get your head around.🧵 pic.twitter.com/yLbujn3hG4— Dan Hollick 🇿🇦 (@DanHollick) December 9, 2021

What has me really excited about building websites is largely around design systems and the design tools we use to build them. Though, design systems are certainly not limited to websites.

Calculate, visualize, and learn about modular scales.

Using the experience gained from crafting bespoke typefaces for clients for over a decade, London-based creative studio Socio have launched design-led foundry Sociotype; beginning with two distinct typefaces – Gestura and Rework. These typefaces, as well as future releases, will be presented in their own issue of the Journal – a content-rich printed publication much more comparable to a magazine than the traditional type specimen. To learn more about it all, we caught up with Creative Director of Socio and Sociotype Nigel Bates, Type Designer Joe Leadbeater and Design Director and Editor of the Journal, Nic Carter.

In this follow-up article, I've provided you with another set of easy-to-implement UI & UX micro-tips.

Browse the world’s UI components to discover techniques that work

“Just one.” So went the particularly cruel prompt that we issued a medley of designers from the publishing industry as 2021 drew to a close. Following a year jam-packed with powerful covers and jackets, we asked a roster of 10—Nicole Caputo, Rodrigo Corral, David Drummond, Janay Nachel Frazier, J

Iridescent periwinkle?!? Here’s why.

What to expect and how to prepare for the new things.

A look the shifting design tools landscape according to the UX Tools survey

My thought process on choosing color and illustration style. Originally published on the official Adobe blog

Meet “Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces”, our brand-new guide on designing for mobile with proven, universal, human-centric standards. 400 pages. Shipping starting late-December.

We often talk about design systems as singular entities. "The design system saves time and increases quality." "Oh, the design system provides that." "Update to the latest version of the design system." The reality is that a design system is a multi-faceted layer cake, and also operates as part of o

Typing with full-color illustrated letters is now a reality! OpenType-SVG is an exciting new technology, and is already supported by several browsers and design apps like Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator cc2018.

A documentary film that follows the transformation of a nation from a colonial outpost to a vibrant and multicultural society, through the lens of graphic design.

Emoji, a new book from Standards Manual, celebrates the ancestral design of what has become the world’s most universal language.

What you think you’ll like isn’t always what helps you make the best decisions, Salesforce Analytics finds in a new research.

Designing Programmes by Karl Gerstner is one of the most elusive design books in the world. Brand new copies retail for over $2,000, and…

An exploration in scalable logo design

Sob with me, fellow “parennials.”

New Logo and Identity for La Mongolfière by Brand Brothers

New Logo and Identity for PATH by Manual

The most fun place to experiment with layouts using variable fonts, and export front-end code right from this little web app. Designed and developed by Wenting Zhang.

Users can be hesitant to fill out forms. That is why it is our goal as designers to make the process of filling out a form as easy as possible. In this article, I’ll share a number of practical techniques that are bound to help you design effective forms.

A dystopian view of an internet designed by machines, and the mushy, emotional weapons we can use to fight back. Read more on Coax.

Slice the sashimi, pour some sake and get comfy under the heated coffee table. I’d like to tell you about this wonderful country I call home. Quick Disclaimer I’ve been living in Japan for about...

Scaling the Microsoft Teams Component Libraries (TCL) in Figma

Website heatmaps are a low effort, low signal waste of time and best avoided in favour of actual research