Design

And the role of development in design

From design systems to DesignOps, we're seeing some dramatic shifts toward more intentional systems and processes. Will 2019 be the year of open design?

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Learn how to design awesome UIs by yourself using specific tactics explained from a developer's point-of-view.

HTML and CSS are often seen as a burden. This is a feeling I’ve noticed from engineers and designers I’ve worked with in the past, and it’s a sentiment

Hue is a collection of hand-picked color palettes for inspire your design and make beautiful website and app.

Figma, an online collaborative interface design tool, has donated an organizational membership to the WordPress project. The browser-based application helps designers and developers collaborate mor…

Too much design effort goes into artifacts that are not part of the working software. There’s a better way to work.

An illustrated guide on the different ‘resolutions’ of user flows, and when to use them.

It’ll be love at first sight.

Uizard, the future of app development. Transform mobile hand-drawn wireframes automatically to Sketch and download the React Native code! Code less, create more.

Examples of common UI elements and interactions with HTML and CSS alone.

You’ve just finished an incredible course where the instructor has given you a huge range of tools and methodologies to put towards…

This year I’ve been involved in a lot of projects to help large organisations improve the web experience for their customers.

Search through 180 Color Palettes used throughout the last 4000 years.

We humans are quite adept at quickly assessing whatever happens to be in front of us. I’m sure it has something to do with that ancient “fight or flight” response....

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Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug

It's a universal truth that there's more than one meaning to just about every word. This is doubly true for industry lingo. If you're just getting started in web design, you need to know what everything really means, if you want to get ahead. So here it is: here's what the Secret Web Design Illuminati doesn't want you to know. Read this article, and you'll be able to dab on the haters with your hip new slang. Isn't that swell? .htaccess A file that sits on your web server which, if ever touched, is perhaps the quickest and easiest way to break your whole site. AJAX The practice of making al...

In order to create the most usable interfaces, content can’t be an afterthought — words alone can define the experience of an app.

Some basic but helpful reminders

In areas most important to a UI, motion design can and should be simple.

Pink has been wielded as a tool of control for decades, writes professor Julie Irish.

A look back at the biggest prototyping tool updates from design teams over the last year.

Colorbox is a color tool to produce color sets.

The preeminent media scholar and author of The Attention Merchants shares insights on how the design industry can better serve users–and humanity.

As we at the Wall Street Journal kick off a new round of hiring¹, I’m reminded of my least favorite practice in design hiring: the…