How User Experience Design Pays Back to the Business
What does it really mean when we think about designing for better user experience? We often talk about readability, usability, how it should work, and how it should behave. We focus our attention arou…
Hi! I'm Natalya! I'm a classically trained fine artist who spent 6 years teaching people how to paint, draw, and grow their creativity. I am now a front end developer, and I love writing code as much …
For the past few weeks there has been lots of talk about HTML headings in web standards circles. Perhaps you've seen some of the blog posts, tweets, and Gi
How do you know when a design fails a usability test?
A handy technique I learned from the wrong job… Years ago, I spent an awkward patch of my career as an instructional designer, creating courses for online learning. It was a bad fit and I moved on hap…
Tomorrow I’m speaking at ImageCon. It’s been over a year since I last gave my talk. As I dusted off my presentation and updated it, it seemed like a good time to assess the state of the…
Using videos as background – a design trend that emerged a couple of years ago – continues to be the subject of much debate among designers. On the one hand,...
What if you could redesign everything? The Circular Design Guide is a collaboration between IDEO and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. It's an action-oriented set of methods, mindsets and thought starte…
What is Progressive Enhancement and Why Should You Care?
If you’ve been building websites and applications for even a little while, you’ve most likely already heard of progressive enhancement. The idea has been around since 2003, it’s one that is often conf…
Nolan, who’s been leading a lot of our product design decisions, shared this idea in our Slack channel the other day as we reviewed our next product design iteration: One of the typical challenges…