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.
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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.
Punctuation & Grammar: 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.
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.
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?
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!
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.