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AVIF is the first browser image format we've had in 10 years. Let's see how it performs…

Inspired by the recent work that Github and Medium have done to improve their fonts and thus the reading experience on their sites, we at…

Please do not use this post as an excuse to beat up the devs at Apple or Google. If you are doing that, you have missed the point of this post and you are being unnecessarily mean to individuals who may have no control over broader organizational decisions. Do not…

Connecting design to modern product development

In this article, let’s look at how to run a kickoff and how to get yourself into a positive position in which you can steer the ship, rather than crash it into the dock.

Who can benefit from anticipatory design design the most? What are possible risks related to it? Read more in this post!

pSome ways of how, as front-end developers, we can apply ethics in our work./p

Developers and designers need to initiate a conversation about the ethics of web design, i.e. how do we define and measure goodness and rightness in the digital realm? It's important to discuss responsibilities, decisions, and consequences.

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

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.

It is the same old story as with beer

This article covers how we evolved our tokens at Intuit to create a flexible taxonomy for a small but powerful set of semantic tokens.

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

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 ...

Creating a live environment, not a cemetery of ideas

Boosting the design system contributions by a robust process.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

New technology and conventions have led to several new classes of usability problems in Web design.

From pixels to principles, from code to conscience

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