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How to Improve User Experience with Accurate User Feedback
Design & UX
By Michiel Mulders,
You submit a form—but get no feedback. Wha? Did it submit? Learn how to make sure your UI elements provide feedback to users—so that you don't lose them!
A Guide to Positive Reinforcement in UX Design
Design & UX
By Michiel Mulders,
Michiel Mulders explains the meaning of positive reinforcement in terms of UX, and offers practical tips for improving the experience of website visitors.
5 Tips for Writing Better Microcopy
Design & UX
By Michiel Mulders,
Michiel Mulders discusses the importance of microcopy for enhancing UX, and offers five tips for helping users better understand your site.
5 Ways to Improve User Experience with Machine Learning
Design & UX
By Michiel Mulders,
Improve your user experience with machine learning. Learn five strategies where machine learning solutions can realistically solve design problems today.
Learnability in Web Design: 5 Best Practices
Design & UX
By Michiel Mulders,
Michiel introduces five best practices you can use to provide a more learnable interface to your users, from consistency to familiarity and storification.
ADA Compliance Is Mandatory for Digital Agencies. Here’s How It’s Done
Design & UX
By Gal Shachar,
In this ultimate ADA compliance guide, we’ve laid out the things your web design agency needs to know to make accessible websites.
8 Tips for Improving Bootstrap Accessibility
Design & UX
By Rhiana Heath,
Rhiana Heath looks at Bootstrap accessibility issues with Bootstrap 4, showing how developers can test for problems and what can be done to fix them.
Introducing Microsoft’s Fluent Design System
Design & UX
By Giannis Konstantinidis,
Giannis introduces us to Microsoft's new design language — Fluent Design System — and explains how to implement its design concepts into Windows UWP apps.
Bridging the Gap Between UX and Copywriting
Design & UX
By Daniel Schwarz,
Daniel Schwarz discusses UX writing, why it's important for designers to be excellent writers, and how punctuation can make copy look and sound appealing.
Should Users be Permitted to Disable JavaScript?
JavaScript
By Craig Buckler,
Craig Buckler takes a renewed look at why, in 2017, some users might disable JavaScript and asks if progressive enhancement is still worth the effort.
How to Boost Usability with Intelligent Color Choices
Design & UX
By Preston Pierce,
Preston Pierce shows us how to carefully optimise contrast levels and choose colors that boost usability, accessibility and conversions.
6 Ways to Improve Long-Scroll Mobile Websites
Design & UX
By Abbas Rajani,
Abbas Rajani shows us how to offer users a better mobile UX by optimizing the layout and content of long-scrolling mobile websites.
Automated Accessibility Checking with aXe
HTML & CSS
By Pavels Jelisejevs,
Pavels Jelisjevs looks at aXe, a JS library that scans your website for a11y issues. Learn how to do automated accessibility checking via your test runner.
Killer GIFs: How Can an Animated GIF Become a Weapon?
Design & UX
By Alex Walker,
GIFs are the jokers of the web image formats – usually funny and playful. But can they be turned into a dangerous weapon in the right situation?
Make a Simple JavaScript Slideshow without jQuery
JavaScript
By Yaphi Berhanu,
Yaphi walks you step-by-step through creating a slideshow with JavaScript and CSS, with practical tips on ensuring accessibility for all.
Why JPEGs are like McDonalds Apple Pies (and SVGs are not)
Design & UX
By Alex Walker,
Sometimes it helps to think of SVG, not as an 'image format', but as a 'recipe'. And once you *really* know a recipe, you can start to change it.
5 Ways to Lift Your Game in Accessible Design
Design & UX
By A'Nita Evans,
Accessible design is more that just adding some ALT tags. Anita has some wonderful insights on how you can improve your approach to accessible design.
Sketch App: How to Share Artboards with Your Team
Design & UX
By Daniel Schwarz,
Being able to share your designs in Sketch with very little effort is hugely beneficial to your team. Daniel show us more than one way to do it!
The 11 Best Tutorials on Mobile Design
Mobile
By Ada Ivanoff,
Ada Ivanoff highlights 11 of her favorite tutorials on mobile design for iOS, Android, cross-platform and mobile web designers.
5 Ways to Offer a Better UX to Disabled Users
Design & UX
By Daniel Schwarz,
Could the characteristics that make us good designers – good eyesight & web savviness – actually make it harder for us to empathize with our users?
Taking the Double Trouble Out of Pull Quotes
Design & UX
By Alex Walker,
Ssometimes we need to be mindful of how classic print techniques translate to digital. Pull Quotes are a good example.
Stevie Wonder and the Rise of the Machine Readers
Design & UX
By Alex Walker,
Talking and reading machines are almost old hat in the age of Siri, but people have been trying to convert text to sound since the first world war.
Mobile Accessibility Fails: Do we need a WCAG3?
Design & UX
By Gian Wild,
Mobile devices present a whole new range of accessibility challenges. Gian looks the successes and failures of WCAG2.
Tips for Creating Accessible eLearning Resources
Design & UX
By Adrienne Gross,
As more learning platforms move online – both government and private – the importance of keeping these systems open to all becomes even more pressing.
The Great Icon Debate: Fonts Vs SVG
Design & UX
By Massimo Cassandro,
Fonts have been a convenient place to store our vector icons – but is it the *right* place? Massimo asks if it's time to move to SVG.
Masking Passwords: Help or Hindrance?
Design & UX
By Jessica Enders,
Conventional wisdom says that the frustration of masked passwords is worth it to keep us safe from hoods and hustlers. But does it actually help?
The Final Nail in the Icon Fonts Coffin?
Design & UX
By Alex Walker,
Vectors are a great option for icons but the decision between icon fonts and SVG is a hard one. Now Seren Davies has raised some new issues with icon fonts.
Lessons from a Failed Experiment in JavaScript Accessibility
Design & UX
By James Edwards,
When you tick the 'show password' box on a site you expect to be able to see your password. But what happens for users with screenreaders? James knows.
An Introduction to Android Accessibility Features
Mobile
By Donald Dragoti,
Donald Dragoti demonstrates how to use some of Android's accessibility features to make your apps usable by everyone.
Why Make Websites Accessible?
Design & UX
By Shaumik Daityari,
You've most certainly seen articles and tutorials discussing the "hows" of accessibility. But have you considered the "whys"? Shaumik considers.