Slack Design · lcarmen2 · Apr 13, 2023
Hi, my name is Stella, a designer working on the Slack platform administration experience. My job is to take care of a special group of users, our Slack administrators. While many think of Slack as a “people product,” we’re also a robust enterprise product. According to Okta’s 2022 Business at Work report, the average.
Salesforce UX · Anubha Dubey · Mar 28, 2023
Nurturing the partnership between product designers and content writers ultimately supports user success. By Dana Holloway and Anubha Dubey Image credit: AdobeStock/Rudzhan “Content is part of the product. Content experience is part of the user experience. They should be involved from the beginning. When you have that.
Scott O'Hara · <name>Scott O'Hara</name> · Mar 21, 2023
figure { padding: .5em; border: 1px solid #444; font-size: .825em; background: #fafafa; } @media screen and (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { figure { background: #2a2a2a; } } This will retread and extend on my previous Inclusively Hidden post. Specifically the parts about “visually hidden” content. But in lieu of readin.
Lea Verou · Mar 18, 2023
It has been over a decade when I launched contrast-ratio.com , an app to calculate the WCAG 2.1 contrast ratio between any two CSS colors. At the time, all similar tools suffered from several flaws when being used for CSS editing: - No support for semi-transparent colors (Since WCAG included no guidance for alpha tran.
Slack Design · lcarmen2 · Mar 13, 2023
When you’re looking for an internship, there can be pressure to have all the right stuff—enrollment in a design program at a prestigious university, prior internship experience at big name companies, completed case studies of real world projects, and more. However, if everyone had these same things, it would be pretty.
Lyft Design · Mirianna Acevedo · Mar 13, 2023
Illustration by Nick Slater Guided by quotes from managers and mentors + one of last year’s associates, Miri and Tisha, Lyft’s PD+ 2022–2023 UX Associates, share general insights and advice that helped them on their journey. In 2022, Mirianna Acevedo (User Experience Researcher) and Tisha Woods (Design Program Manager.
Lyft Design · David Wu · Mar 6, 2023
Illustration by David Wu Nothing erodes customer trust faster than a broken payment experience — it needs to work every time. So designing a system of payment components is understandably daunting, requiring a seamless user experience, integration with existing systems, and impenetrable security. Here, we’ll explore a.
Manuel Matuzovic · Mar 4, 2023
The new WebAim 1 Million report was recently published, and the results are sobering. Compared to the previous year, 0.5% fewer websites contained automatically detectable accessibility issues, but the total number of erroneous websites is still 96.3%. The number of empty links increased by 0.4% from 49.7% to 50.1%. M.
Salesforce UX · kellen mannion · Mar 3, 2023
Before you start If you aren’t familiar with color contrast, check out these resources: - Creating Color Contrast Guidelines to Meet WCAG 2.1 and Beyond which was the result of an accessibility and product partnership to align on WCAG interpretations. - Creating the Salesforce color system . Note : This quiz is based.
EightShapes · Nathan Curtis · Feb 20, 2023
What to include, where it goes, and why it matters more now During the emerging years of design systems (2015–2018), designers and developers form teams to crank out components. Tight collaborative connections favored conversation over artifacts to align, decide, and move forward. As a component design stabilized, des.
Scott O'Hara · <name>Scott O'Hara</name> · Feb 17, 2023
I’ve already talked about Setting expectations for asking ChatGPT web accessibility questions. So you should probably go read that first.
Salesforce UX · Kate Hughes · Feb 15, 2023
Get to know some of the design skills that are the future of user experience Design is always expanding and emerging in new and powerful ways. Soon, some of these advances will be on show from a fun, friendly corner of Trailblazer Forest at the learning event of the year, TrailblazerDX (March 7–8) . Whether you’ll be.
Salesforce UX · Laine Riley Prokay · Feb 14, 2023
Discover which project types support skill development. By Laine Riley Prokay and Lisa Gordon [Valery/AdobeStock] The DesignOps field is still growing, which means opportunities abound. Let’s talk about how you can help skill up industry newcomers. It starts with getting them involved in basic projects at your company.
EightShapes · Nathan Curtis · Feb 13, 2023
How it works, and how to make it work for you Creating component design specifications (“specs”) is grueling. Designers can spend hours manually itemizing elements, outlining props and options, and mapping tokens to elements across states and configurations. Oh, and all the redlines. For many, it’s time consuming and.
Manuel Matuzovic · Feb 10, 2023
Sometimes it seems like accessibility experts and other web professionals hate JavaScript. This might be true for some, but most understand that JavaScript can be useful for improving UX and even accessibility. JavaScript solutions are often more accessible than their pure HTML or CSS counterparts . We know JavaScript.
GOV.UK User Research · <name>Dr Erin Bramwell, Senior User Researcher</name> · Feb 9, 2023
As User Researchers, we champion user-centred approaches, and our work can be internal or external facing. As part of being user-centred, we have a duty to protect our participants’ data, as well as their wellbeing and safety; this applies whether they are members of the public or other civil servants and staff. In th.
Manuel Matuzovic · Feb 7, 2023
It’s possible to animate gap , grid-template-columns , and grid-template-rows . Almost 6 years ago I wrote a blog post on CodePen titled “ Animating CSS Grid Layout properties ”. A lot has changed since then, especially recently, and I wanted to update the post, but the blogging feature on CodePen has been sunset and.
Material Design · Feb 2, 2023
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Manuel Matuzovic · Feb 2, 2023
The accent-color CSS property allows us to specify the accent color for user-interface controls generated by an element. Yeah, I know, yet another property that isn’t new at all, but Safari added support only recently (in 15.4) and I’ve never used it. Reason enough for me to include it in the series. We can use the pr.
Salesforce UX · Jyoti Iyer · Jan 31, 2023
Good Bot Design Means Never Having to Say: ‘I’m sorry, I didn’t get that’ Hobbitfoot/AdobeStock I am sure you’re familiar with that moment when you’re talking to a bot and you say something — even just “hello” — only to get the reply: “I’m sorry, I didn’t get that.” This unfortunate moment is like a “sorry cliff”: the.