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Dovetail · Aug 7, 2025

What makes product design at Dovetail unique

It’s an exciting time to be a product designer. Evolving from crafting screens, interfaces, and end-to-end experiences, designers are now playing a pivotal role in shaping AI systems and increasingly complex ecosystems. They have more direct influence over business and technology than ever before. This is certainly tr.

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Adam Silver · Aug 4, 2025

The third law of form design

In 2008 I worked on a redesign of the checkout flow for Boots.com. We had the RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People) do an accessibility audit. The consultant found a lot of problems but the main one I remember was with form validation. She said: - It’s not clear that there are errors (even though we were sho.

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WebAIM · Cynthia Curry · Jul 30, 2025

Accessibility by Design: Preparing K–12 Schools for What’s Next

Delivering web and digital accessibility in any environment requires strategic planning and cross-organizational commitment. While the goal (ensuring that websites and digital platforms do not present barriers to individuals with disabilities) and the standards (the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) remain constan.

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Adam Silver · Jul 28, 2025

The second law of form design

Last week I shared the first law of form design which is that: Nobody wants to use your form. Like I said last week, it’s crucial to know because it emphasises respecting the user over trying to make your form fun, engaging, novel or “on brand”. And showing respect means doing everything we possibly can to get that fo.

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A List Apart · by <a itemprop="url" class="author" rel="author" href="https://alistapart.com/author/michelferreira/">Michel Ferreira</a> · Jul 23, 2025

An Holistic Framework for Shared Design Leadership

Picture this: You’re in a meeting room at your tech company, and two people are having what looks like the same conversation about the same design problem. One is talking about whether the team has the right skills to tackle it. The other is diving deep into whether the solution actually solves the user’s problem. Sam.

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Adam Silver · Jul 21, 2025

The first law of form design

Two weeks ago, a new subscriber asked me: How can we bring joy to people who use enterprise applications for 40 hours a week? It’s a good question because it shows empathy for people who use the same product day in and day out. If you can bring users joy, you should. But it all boils down to what you mean by joy. If y.

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tempertemper · Martin Underhill · Jul 19, 2025

Making sense of accessibility and the law

Accessibility isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s the law. Here’s how the law applies to digital products, in plain English.

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tempertemper · Martin Underhill · Jul 2, 2025

Hierarchy in tables

Hierarchical tables can be a lot to understand, particularly for screen reader users. Here’s how to tackle hierarchy when it can’t be avoided.

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Lea Verou · Jun 25, 2025

The Hovercar Framework for Deliberate Product Design

You may be familiar with this wonderful illustration and accompanying blog post by Henrik Kniberg about good MVPs: It’s a very visual way to illustrate the age-old concept that that a good MVP is not the one developed in isolation over months or years, grounded on assumptions about user needs and goals, but one that d.

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tempertemper · Martin Underhill · Jun 21, 2025

Erring on the side of caution

At some point a third party will audit the accessibility of your product; being strict now makes that process smoother and far less stressful.

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Lea Verou · Jun 17, 2025

Bluesky Likes Web Components

Just want the components? Here you go: Demo Repo NPM A love letter to the Bluesky API I’m old enough to remember the golden Web 2.0 era, when many of today’s big social media platforms grew up. A simpler time, when the Web was much more extroverted. It was common for websites to embed data from others (the peak of mas.

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Microsoft Design · Microsoft Design · Jun 12, 2025

A mobile-first approach for Microsoft 365 Copilot

How Microsoft is reimagining productivity from a mobile-first lens By Deepak Menon Read the full article on our new website here . More and more, the world is working on the go. As we physically move through the day, the ability to be productive should flow alongside us, regardless of platform or device. With this in.

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Heydon Pickering · Jun 12, 2025

Accessible Rickrolling

Understanding the parity principle in accessibility, using rick-rolling as an example.

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