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iA · iA Inc · Dec 1, 2025

iA Winterfest 2025

Celebrating both Winterfest and 20 years of iA this year, with one gift to enjoy each day.

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Adam Silver · Nov 30, 2025

Can you make toast messages accessible?

I will answer this question. Let me explain with a post I wrote on LinkedIn last week: Github’s Design System has banned toast messages. Toast messages are little messages that appear on top of the UI to give you feedback about an action you just took. Banning toast messages is an excellent decision because they’re no.

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Uber Design · Parvaneh Toghiani · Nov 20, 2025

How to Stop the Stakeholder Swirl

And finally enjoy your big-company design reviews When I started at Uber in 2016, I was two and a half years into my career as a product designer. I had a background in graphic design and made the conscious choice to join Uber to see if I could cut it as a real product designer at a top-tier tech company. At twenty fi.

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tempertemper · Martin Underhill · Nov 19, 2025

An accessible pagination pattern (or two)

A couple of weeks ago I added pagination to my blog, and it was an interesting delve into the various designs and markup patterns that can be used.

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Adam Silver · Nov 16, 2025

End with one thing per page

Last week, I attended a design crit. One designer shared a multi-step form - here’s what one of the pages looked like: Here’s the last step: Another designer raised a concern that all the change links under “Applicant details” go to the same page. She said: “I’ve seen issues in the past because every change link takes.

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Adam Silver · Nov 2, 2025

Why I don’t test different designs at the same time

A year ago I posted this on LinkedIn: I tell my students to avoid select boxes. Because it’s often better to use radio buttons. But students often say “But it’ll make the page too long”. Yep, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s bad UX. See the page I designed to let users select a course. Huge list of radio buttons.

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tempertemper · Martin Underhill · Nov 1, 2025

The return of the heading group

I’ve written about why we probably shouldn’t use header elements for headings, but what should we use instead? The element is back!

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Microsoft Design · Microsoft Design · Oct 16, 2025

The age of the design hacker

Six practical mindsets for building secure and resilient UX By Venita Subramanian Venita Subramanian is a Design lead within Microsoft Security UX where she spearheads Secure by Design, a company-wide initiative focused on blending creativity, craft, and frameworks to make security a natural part of every experience f.

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tempertemper · Martin Underhill · Oct 15, 2025

Page headings don’t belong in the header

I have a habit of thinking pretty deeply about semantics and structure, and have been considering the main page heading and where it should live.

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Microsoft Design · Microsoft Design · Sep 18, 2025

Designing loops, not paths

How cybernetic loops are helping us turn “human in the loop” from a catchphrase into a design practice. by Matt Fick, Senior UX Architect, Business & Industry Copilot and Max Peterschmidt, Principal User Researcher, Business & Industry Copilot. Imagine driving across town during rush hour. You might have a planned rou.

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GOV.UK Accessibility Blog · <name>Kerry Lyons, Senior Content Designer, Department for Education</name> · Sep 16, 2025

Improving the DfE accessibility and inclusive design manual

Making it easier for people to find what they need in the Department for Education accessibility and inclusive design manual.

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Prototypr · Toni Wowtscherk · Aug 25, 2025

Who are we designing for now?

Between Humans and AI: The new design dilemma. AI is disrupting more than the software industry, and is doing so at a breakneck speed. Not long ago, designers were deep in Figma variables and pixel-perfect mockups. Now, tools like v0, Lovable, and Cursor are enabling instant, vibe-based prototyping that makes old meth.

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Microsoft Design · Microsoft Design · Aug 19, 2025

Reimagining our front door

Using positive psychology to craft delightful sign-in & sign-up experiences By Eva McSweeney When was the last time you thought deeply about a sign-in screen? Probably never. And that’s kind of the point. The best authentication experiences should feel frictionless, intuitive, and almost forgettable. But crafting that.

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