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All BBC websites and apps must conform to the Mobile Accessibility Guidelines. These guidelines are applicable for responsive websites, native and hybrid apps, interactive content, and increasingly for TV apps.

We looked at over 1,400 romance novel covers featured in Publishers Weekly from 2011 to 2023 and evaluated each cover based on its raunchiness (or level of undress), art style, and representation of racial diversity.

What can web designers and developers do to build a more sustainable web? This post explores the environmental impacts of web technologies and looks at some of the ways we can build greener websites.

Sustainable web design is an approach to designing digital products and services that puts people and planet first.

“If the Internet was a country, it would be the 7th largest polluter”

Sustainable design is the approach to creating products and services that have considered the environmental, social, and economic impacts…

At IBM, our design philosophy is to help guide people so they can do their best work.

With the ever-increasing computing power of desktops, browser sophistication and use of native apps, every day we learn of new ways to push the limits of what defines a well-crafted UI. When used correctly, motion can be a key utility in helping your users achieve their goals. UX designers who are considering motion in their designs will find themselves under pressure to explain, communicate and defend why the extra effort is required. Know your audience, and communicate your intentions to the team early on. With UX animation, subtlety is key. Focusing on helping users achieve their goals is paramount.

Light text might seem fancy, but if it’s not large enough, it’s a pain to read.

Fintech products are systems that are overloaded by many types of data like numerals, texts, spreadsheets, and so on. Working with these products requires the designer to pay a high level of attention and responsibility, as he becomes a provider between user and data. Daria shares her approach to digital product typography and reviews the key points to consider when choosing typefaces.

A version of this post originally appeared in Google bathrooms worldwide as a Google Testing on the Toilet episode. You can download a prin...

Perspectives and tips from two apprentice UX researchers about how to break into the field, managing imposter syndrome and more.

Mobile-first web designs cause significant usability issues when viewed on desktop. Content becomes overly dispersed across long scrolling pages with expansive white space and enlarged images and fonts, making it difficult for users to consume and understand the information.

Tables of contents provide a page overview and direct access to specific sections. When designing a table of contents, carefully compare different placement and styling options to maximize usability.

Working in the area of UX sometimes feels like a crime drama. Can’t believe it? Then look at these fun parallels between modern UX practices and a classical TV detective.

The Gestalt team tells us how they used Figma’s REST API to create FigStats, a dashboard for visualizing component usage.

Boosting the design system contributions by a robust process.

Creating a live environment, not a cemetery of ideas

The Figma advocate team's recommendations for structuring your design system! Whether you're on the professional, organisation, or enterprise plan, you can get started with Figma libraries and build out your system. Within this file, there is advice on: The structural differences between each ...

Figma Librairies are the invisible backbone of our Product or Brand Designers’ daily delivery. This means they must not be neglected, even…

It is the same old story as with beer

Design handoffs are inefficient and painful. They cause frustration, friction and a lot of back and forth. Can we avoid them altogether? Of course we can! Let’s see how to do just that.

The design process doesn’t end with prototyping. Unfortunately, designers are more often than not are pulled off a project when the…