UXmatters · Mar 4, 2024
By Magnus Eriksen In the span of just a few years, mobile devices have gone from being useful gadgets to essential lifelines. They seamlessly bridge the gap between the physical and digital realms, making information and services readily accessible to their users at all times. And yet, our appreciation of this conveni.
UXmatters · Mar 4, 2024
By Jonathan Walter and Amber Westlund In Part 1 of this series, we defined inclusive design and acknowledged its ever-growing impact, including on industrial automation. We then described inclusive design challenges in industrial automation and previewed how we solve them. Now, in Part 2, we’ll delve more deeply into.
UXmatters · Mar 4, 2024
By Danika Kimball In the world of ecommerce, creating a seamless, highly engaging user experience is paramount. One thing that can significantly enhance the user experience is user-generated content (UGC). UGC encompasses a wide range of content, including customer reviews, photos, videos, and social-media interaction.
GOV.UK User Research · <name>Venyah Kowalik, User researcher, Parliamentary Digital Service</name> · Feb 29, 2024
What one user researcher learned from facilitating cross-government user research training, and how you could benefit from getting involved too.
Adam Silver · Feb 18, 2024
My friend Victor shared this design tip on Twitter last week: He said that if you put the slider values on top, your finger won’t cover them up. It’s a useful tip. But sliders aren’t just bad UX because your finger covers up the values. This is the least of your worries. Here I’ll share why that is (plus what to do in.
Material Design · Feb 12, 2024
Website and API updates are making it simpler to get fonts and use them in your project
A List Apart · by <a itemprop="url" class="author" rel="author" href="https://alistapart.com/author/agustafson/">Aaron Gustafson</a> · Feb 7, 2024
In reading Joe Dolson’s recent piece on the intersection of AI and accessibility , I absolutely appreciated the skepticism that he has for AI in general as well as for the ways that many have been using it. In fact, I’m very skeptical of AI myself, despite my role at Microsoft as an accessibility innovation strategist.
A List Apart · by <a itemprop="url" class="author" rel="author" href="https://alistapart.com/author/zeldman/">Jeffrey Zeldman</a> · Jan 29, 2024
I am a creative. What I do is alchemy. It is a mystery. I do not so much do it, as let it be done through me. I am a creative. Not all creative people like this label. Not all see themselves this way. Some creative people see science in what they do. That is their truth, and I respect it. Maybe I even envy them, a lit.
tempertemper · Martin Underhill · Jan 29, 2024
In most companies, accessibility conversations centre around WCAG compliance, but that’s just the start. Thinking beyond that is where you want to be!
Slack Design · lcarmen2 · Jan 17, 2024
Charting the crit terrain Critique—or, to use its more casual truncation, “crit”— is one of the most powerful team-powered tools that can contribute to a designer’s growth. The merits of a forum in which a designer’s work is evaluated and discussed by their peers at length seem obvious, to say the least, but often, ma.
Manuel Matuzovic · Jan 2, 2024
There isn't much more to say; it's all in the title. Many automated testing tools are a collection of JavaScript functions you run on a page. Most of those rely on querying the DOM. If a tool doesn't consider shadow trees, it only catches accessibility errors in the Light DOM, which may give you a wrong sense of safet.
tempertemper · Martin Underhill · Dec 21, 2023
People who use a screen reader on a laptop/desktop generally use the keyboard, but that doesn’t mean they use it like a keyboard-only user.
Material Design · Dec 19, 2023
Celebrating two years of MTB with a major update including Color Match
GOV.UK User Research · <name>Dan Barwick</name> · Nov 30, 2023
How doing ethnographic research with farmers and advisers helped to build trust and reframe a policy challenge.
tempertemper · Martin Underhill · Nov 30, 2023
There’s a common misconception that everyone who uses screen reader software is blind; that’s mostly the case, but not always.
Ahmad Shadeed · Nov 19, 2023
GOV.UK User Research · <name>Chris Hyland</name> · Nov 2, 2023
Chris shares lessons for ensuring ReOps functions meet researchers’ needs, measure their impact, and focus on the right things, learned from creating one at the Government Digital Service
Lea Verou · Nov 2, 2023
Usability and aesthetics usually go hand in hand. In fact, there is even what we call the “Aesthetic Usability Effect” : users perceive beautiful interfaces as easier to use and cut them more slack when it comes to minor usability issues. Unfortunately, sometimes usability and aesthetics can be at odds, also known as.
tempertemper · Martin Underhill · Oct 31, 2023
Retro-fitting accessibility is far from ideal but usually the only way digital products are able to reach all of their potential users.
Slack Design · lcarmen2 · Oct 25, 2023
The timing was right. We were adding in new features like huddles, canvases, lists, and others into a UI system that was originally designed solely for messaging capabilities. Meanwhile, research showed users on the biggest and most active teams were struggling to stay on top of the basics. Our product navigation was.