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Léonie Watson · Léonie Watson · Jul 27, 2021

AccessiBe and data protection?

The case against accessibility overlays is well established, but AccessiBe's privacy practices deserve closer scrutiny—particularly how it tracks your browsing activity and personal data across websites.

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Boxes and Arrows · Diana Sonis · Jul 5, 2021

Forget the Trail of Breadcrumbs

Enterprises often have a simplistic understanding of navigational structures in UX Design. Companies shy away from messing with known organizational schemas for fear that their users or customers will become confused and run away. We don’t give our users enough credit. As a result, most software navigational structure.

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Lea Verou · Jun 24, 2021

Inherit ancestor font-size, for fun and profit

If you’ve been writing CSS for any length of time, you’re probably familiar with the em unit, and possibly the other type-relative units . We are going to refer to em for the rest of this post, but anything described works for all type-relative units. As you well know, em resolves to the current font size on all prope.

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Learn UI Design · <name>Erik D. Kennedy</name> · Jun 22, 2021

15 Tips for Better Signup / Login UX

Mobile patterns · Form field validation · Autofocus · Microcopy · Error messages · Error prevention

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Intuit Design · Ted Drake · May 17, 2021

Personalization and Inclusive Design

As technology users, we expect our phones, computers, and software to adjust to our needs. But this hasn’t always been the case. Raising the Floor , an ambitious project was kicked off a decade ago to ensure every experience adapted to the specific needs of every user. Their mission was easy to understand. As a person.

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Dovetail · May 11, 2021

Getting the brand back together

Come on down and see the refreshed Dovetail brand! You'll notice a fresh logo, color palette, typography, and illustration style.

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Uber Design · Mike Stumpo · Apr 28, 2021

What’s in a name? Introducing Content Design at Uber

Why we’ve changed the job title of our UX Writing team Co-authored with Jaime Walke In 2010, my job title was Content Strategist. At the time, I worked with information architects, interaction designers, graphic designers, web designers, illustrators, animators, and a slew of other talented folks to create digital exp.

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Intuit Design · Christophe Coutzoukis · Apr 6, 2021

The influence of Design systems and JavaScript frameworks in large-scale companies

Both have a similar influence on two different jobs, design and development, creating a new division of labor. Design systems and the designer roles Design systems are somewhat new. Even if everybody in the design sphere is talking about them right now, the consequences of their introduction in big companies are yet t.

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Intuit Design · Kelly Harrop · Mar 31, 2021

Using Design Tokens to Accelerate Design Systems

How Intuit is improving the developer UX for design tokens As a unified design system, we empower teams across Intuit to deliver seamless, cohesive experiences. Because we serve both designers and developers, we needed to invest in tooling that would allow us to scale our impact in order to fit their needs. Opportunit.

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Lea Verou · Mar 30, 2021

Dark mode in 5 minutes, with inverted lightness variables

By now, you probably know that you can use custom properties for individual color components, to avoid repeating the same color coordinates multiple times throughout your theme. You may even know that you can use the same variable for multiple components, e.g. HSL hue and lightness: :root { --primary-hs: 250 30%; } h1.

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Learn UI Design · <name>Erik D. Kennedy</name> · Mar 26, 2021

Free Font Alternatives: The Ultimate Guide

Free, high-quality alternatives to: Apercu · Avenir · Circular · DIN · Futura · Gotham · Helvetica · Proxima Nova · Times New Roman

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Intuit Design · Ted Drake · Mar 23, 2021

Designing for the (WCAG) Future

The Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law in 1990. This fundamentally changed how we designed spaces and created inclusive experiences. However, the law came before the Internet and designing for digital experiences. As our designs and technology have evolved, so have the guidelines for making them inclu.

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Adam Silver · Feb 24, 2021

Material Design text fields are badly designed

I’ve been designing forms for over 20 years now, and I’ve tested many of them for large organisations like Boots, Just Eat and GOV.UK. One topic that comes up a lot with forms is: where to put the label. In the early days, we talked about left aligned labels versus top aligned labels. These days the focus is more abou.

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