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Brad Frost

Design Systems are for user interfaces

4 min read · 2021-11-15 · We often talk about design systems as singular entities. "The design system saves time and increases quality." "Oh, the design system provides that." "Update to the latest version of the design…
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visual design
design
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The design system embodies important standards from across an organization, but doesn’t necessarily define or own those standards.
Chrome Developers

Photoshop's journey to the web

6 min read · 2021-10-26 · Over the last three years, Chrome has been working to empower web applications that want to push the boundaries of what's possible in the browser. One such web application has been Photoshop. The idea…
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photoshop
web app
web assembly
web dev
yatil.net

Buttons vs. Links

4 min read · 2021-10-08 · Should some links look like buttons, or should some buttons look like links? Twitter was all up in arms about this issue this week. Let’s take a look to see what these two UI elements are and what…
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ux
visual design
link
html
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Links are interactive elements that usually link to another document, for example: Click this link to go to Knowbility’s website. There is some additional functionality, like the ability to point to different frames in a “frame set” (yup, you can still do that!) or forcing a download of a file. In essence, the link changes what the URL in the browser points to and the
UX Collective

Design lessons from the grim fate of the Segway

8 min read · 2021-08-15 · The Segway failed because it solved no actual problems. Electric scooters and e-bikes are thriving, because they do
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mobility
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If you create all that cutting-edge Segway balancing gear, you wind up with something so expensive it breaks the market.
Andy Budd

A Future of Design Without Designers?

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design
codeish
Summary, by the author

This article looks at how the rise of generative design and AI software agents may make it easier for non traditional designers (execs, engineers and PMs) to affect design decisions. When this happens, what does this mean for design as a distinct profession?

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UX Collective

Giving, seeking, and receiving feedback in UX

~15 min read · 2021-08-29 · Each individual is a universe of its own and each company or UX department has a set of unwritten rules. When you’re in doubt, the…
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ux
radix-ui.com

Colors — Radix UI

1 min read · 2021-07-01 · An open-source color system for designing beautiful, accessible websites and apps.
Reader View · Shared by 150, including Esther Schindler, David Gates, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Katja Evertz, Marius Bleuer, Luca Corsilli, Samarpita Roy, Elise Korsmo Fjeld, David Hellmann
design
visual design
colors
accessibility
Fast Company

Watching the Olympics has been a UX nightmare

7 min read · 2021-08-04 · Broadcast monopolies have created the hellscape that is just trying to watch the Olympics.
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design
A List Apart

Designing for the Unexpected

~15 min read · 2021-07-15 · As devices continue to diversify in dizzying ways, how can we make sure our work on the web stays as relevant as ever for the long haul? Cathy Dutton shares how practitioners must design for the un…
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design
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Container queries have long been touted as an improvement upon media queries, but at the time of writing are unsupported in most browsers.
UX Collective

No, standardization doesn’t stifle creativity

9 min read · 2021-08-02 · The maturation of UX isn’t making you an uncreative robot or replaceable commodity.
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ux
creativity
inclusivedesign24.org

Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)

10 min read · 2021-08-13 · A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion
Reader View · Shared by 165, including thoughtbot, Web Axe, Rachel Andrew, Adrian Roselli 🗯, Eric Bailey, Sara Soueidan, Léonie, Dennis Lembrée, Ian Pouncey, David A. Kennedy, patrick h. lauke (redux) "Big Dog" #toryScum, Steve Faulkner, Stef Walter, PacielloGroup, Samarpita Roy
design
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Every design decision has the power to either include or exclude people.
jamiemill.com

The elements of product design

2 min read · 2021-07-15 · A model explaining product design as a stack of decisions built on top of a stack of knowledge. With apologies to Jesse James Garrett.
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product design
product management
UX Collective

Why do people hate redesigns?

9 min read · 2021-08-14 · Recently, Twitter unveiled a new design for its website and app, including a new font, higher-contrast colors, and less visual clutter…
Reader View · Shared by 183, including Josep M. Ganyet, Nick Floro, Neil Lee, Casey Smith, Samarpita Roy
psychology
product design
product management
design
design thinking
user interface
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Everything was fine, the same as always. I hate it when you find a product you like that fits a particular need of yours, and then they change it.
Times Open

Product Design at the Pace of News

~17 min read · 2021-07-16 · A Q&A with The New York Times Live design team.
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product design
design
Marc Andrew

UI & UX Micro-Tips: Volume Seven.

6 min read · 2021-07-21 · In this follow-up article I’ve brought you another selection of easy to put into practice UI & UX micro-tips.
Reader View · Shared by 101, including Samarpita Roy, Oliver Raduner, Jessel Sookha, Elise Korsmo Fjeld, Matthias Lampe
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visual design
ui
user interface
user experience
tips
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Always try to keep those messages short and to the point, and talk to the user in a voice they’ll easily understand.
Fast Company

Why bad design can actually be good

10 min read · 2021-07-15 · Ken Carbone, Ayse Birsel, and Allan Chochinov discuss how bad design can prompt creative breakthroughs—and what even constitutes ‘bad design’ in the first place.
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