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Effective collaboration between designers and developers is vital to creating good user experiences. However, bridging the handoff between design and development with the many tools and workflows available today has its pitfalls. Matthew Mattei introduces you to the Uno Platform. This free and open-source project offers a robust set of productivity boosters, including a design-to-code plugin that fosters better designer/developer collaboration.
Stress testing a WordPress website will show how your website will perform under different situations. This way, you can ensure fast performance and resolve any issues.
Have you ever tried out different Apps or sites and noticed that one of them gives you instructions and directs your actions while the others require a lot of clicking around, just to find whatever it is that you need? Enter the world of Nielsen’s 10 Heuristics, the unsung heroes shaping the user experience of your favorite digital spaces. For every user who has experienced the agony of a confusing...
The social network failed to hit the growth targets its new owner set in 2019. But were they ever compatible with what Tumblr does best?
Daily Miracles explores the application of design principles in crafting a user-centered digital experience for fundraising needs under various campaigns.
Spot the difference, but with fonts. Turn your volume up.
Make sure the brand is fully and accurately represented on all mediums and in all situations. Since there is such a huge variety in how all these different channels operate and the space constraints that they come with, brands have to innovate and keep themselves adaptable and responsive to every channel.
Microsoft has created a new ‘Windows App’ for accessing its OS on a variety of devices, possibly signaling broader ambitions.
A coding interview question, from the viewpoint of an Google/Amazon/Microsoft interviewer
Award-winning Manchester-based font studio F37 Foundry has launched its collaborative new typeface collection this week. Featuring designs from leading names and emerging talents, it’s unlike anything you’ve seen.
Scroll-driven shape morph animations with tilt interaction inspired by the effect seen on KPR.
Boost customer satisfaction and loyalty by designing a safe, consistent, and user-friendly authentication system.
Take a look at these images and see if you can tell which are “fake.”
UX/UI designers use various tricks to create user-friendly interfaces: they work out information architecture, conduct usability tests, and much more. But the true UX magic happens when the main structure of an application is ready — and this magic has a name: microinteractions.
Web design blogs are fantastic sources of inspiration, resources, and information on current design trends. Here are 9 of our favorites.
In this article, we will walk you through designing a responsive dashboard with a coded component library – Material UI, one of the best, thoroughly documented libraries of ready-made elements.
As part of an UX/UI challenge in my class, I have to cleverly redesign a part of an application of my choosing.
AI-powered text-to-image tools are presenting a moral quandary in terms of creative ethics. But is there a way to use such tools while expanding artistic potential?
Most UX newbies only learn these design skills at work.
Some logos, wordmarks, and icons are so universally identifiable we might take them for granted. We lose sight of the fact that these designs often started from humble beginnings, with a human taking pencil to paper and dashing off a quick sketch. NASA’s “Worm Logo” is right up there with the best in this category.
One will see Google personalizing search results for users by allowing them to “follow” topics of interest in addition to surfacing web pages in new ways. Another, more experimental initiative, will turn Google into a collaborative space where users can annotate web pages with their own notes, which are browsable by anyone else on the web.
Helvetica’s beauty is in its neutrality, so why not go weird with it?
Apple’s iMessage continues to reserve encryption and other features for iPhones to the detriment of all mobile phone users.
As the nights draw in for the Northern hemisphere, what better way to brighten your day than by soaking up some design inspiration?
YouTube today announced how it will approach handling AI-created content on its platform with a range of new policies surrounding responsible disclosure as well as new tools for requesting the removal of deepfakes, among other things. The company says that, although it already has policies that prohibit manipulated media, AI necessitated the creation of new policies because of its potential to mislead viewers if they don’t know the video has...
Brand identity for Transport for London’s growing property company.
In this article, I will focus on the process of designing a typeface from scratch, setting up your project, and defining the pillars that will help hold up your workflow, so that you can work smarter, faster, and with fewer blunders.
With industrial designer Eliot Noyes in 1961
A dynamic tooltip animation with various reveal effects, comprised of different amounts of fragments appearing.
New Microsoft Office on the way for businesses that don’t want a subscription
It struck me recently how this list of plugins I saw in the 2023 Annual WordPress Survey wasn’t full of fun and interesting plugins that do interesting and unique things, they mostly just fix boring problems that users shouldn’t even be worried about having to fix at all.
When Jeaniene Brownlee’s son began making YouTube videos, she saw a quiet student become a gadget guru. “Marques has always been very detail-oriented,” she says.
Today we’re taking action to protect users of Google’s Bard AI as well as against fraudsters who sought to weaponize copyright law for profit
From Pantone to Papanek. Speculating what will be the next Pantone Color of the Year
In this list, we will suggest three aspects to keep in mind when choosing a font for your landing page, as well as a list of the 15 most popular fonts for landing pages, with specific instructions on how and when to use them.
The music service lags behind such competitors as Spotify and YouTube Music. It’s hoping revamped features and a new visual identity can attract a new generation.
Words alone aren’t enough to safeguard best practices in the world of web design and development. Web design documentation must be like its medium — interactive and constantly evolving.
Back in September, Google announced a Material You redesign of desktop Chrome that’s now more widely rolling out.
What began as a book about the type-loving author’s favourite font expanded quickly into a mixed-bag collection, with Comic Sans along for the ride too.
Google’s Project IDX is an ‘experimental’ new developer IDE with added AI. But how is it different to other IDEs? We asked its product lead.
The digital behaviour traits of individualism and collectivism
Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it.
The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air.
The world of graphic design is constantly evolving, with new trendsemerging all the time. And the current global turmoil is only accelerating this effect. Here, we explore eight of the most hotly anticipated trends for 2024 based on the insights of industry experts.
Our new report examines what it takes for designers to feel fulfilled and satisfied in their roles now that work has radically changed.
FluentPro Project Migrator automates migration between popular project management platforms, simplifying and accelerating the process. The cloud-based solution helps to reduce migration costs and eliminate data loss risks.
Dark patterns in UX design are manipulative tactics that deceive and trick users into taking actions that primarily benefit companies, often at the expense of the user’s experience.
Slack looks like a carnival of distraction and chaos — a hideous Grimace-purple rail on the left side that now tracks every “activity.” (Someone giving a thumbs up emoji to one of your posts, for example.)
Liminal Design is the opposite of the transactional design — different tools, courage and client interactions are required.
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The Long Read Magazine manages to live in two worlds: the bookshelf and newsstand.
A team of researchers from Adobe Research and Australian National Universityhave developed a groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) model that can transform a single 2D image into a high-quality 3D model in just 5 seconds.
Animation and accessibility are often seen as two separate powers at odds with one another. How is it possible to strike a balance between elements that move and the possible negative effects they expose to users who are sensitive to motion? Oriana García explains how her team at Mercado Libre tackled the challenge by creating guiding principles for applying animation to user interfaces and incorporating them into the team’s design...
Self-promotion is essential to landing clients or a promotion. Here’s how to sing your own praises without annoying everyone.
Meta now offers users an ad-free option, but it’s only available in Europe for those who can afford the €10-a-month subscription.
Content Credentials allows creators to attach information to their content, including the name of the artist, the program used to create the piece, any edits or processes used and assets included in the final image. It also marks images that have been generated using AI tools.
A beginners guide to understanding design tokens
Fight for Kindness, designed to mark World Kindness Day, celebrated annually on November 13, provides an antidote by highlighting kindness in all its dimensions and forms through typography.
There’s a setting on your phone and web browser that Google is desperate to keep you from discovering. How desperate? In 2021 alone, Google paid Apple, Samsung and others $26.3 billion to keep it buried.
WordPress Playground began as an experiment to see what a self-hosted WordPress experience might look like without the requirement of having to actually install WordPress. A year later, the experiment has evolved into a full-fledged project that not only abstracts installation but opens up WordPress to a slew of new opportunities. Ganesh Dahal demonstrates how WordPress Playground works and gets deep into how it might be used.
All those tabs you swear you’ll get to are actually hogging a lot of memory.
We trace the history of the Samsung logo, from its beginnings in 1930s Korea to the global fame it enjoys today.
The website is intended to offer web designers and developers clear instructions to make websites accessible for as many people as possible.
Field is excited about the potential of AI-powered tools to automate tasks, provide feedback, and generate ideas.
Sony Music, Deezer and SiriusXM have all unveiled new logos. Sony’s delves into its brand heritage, Deezer’s aims to “recharge people’s emotional connection to the brand”, and SiriusXM’s “gives a nod to the service’s consumer value proposition”
Which typefaces are going to be hot in the year to come? We bring together 50 fabulous fonts that everyone needs to know about – in one easy place.
Just because a product change is subtle doesn’t mean it won’t make waves. Vice President of Product, Sho Kuwamoto, explains why quality-of-life improvements are at our core.
Searching for a tool to make cross-platform design a breeze? Desperate for an extension that helps you figure out the HTML code of that fantastic color palette? Looking for a trick that will supercharge your productivity this year? We’ve got you covered.
As the public begins to believe Google isn’t as useful anymore, what happens to the cottage industry of search engine optimization experts who struck content oil and smeared it all over the web? Well, they find a new way to get rich and keep the party going.