The root causes for the development-design mismatch
“Product designers will have to give up their beloved free-form canvas.”
“Product designers will have to give up their beloved free-form canvas.”
Overview of seeing, hearing, moving, and thinking disabilities.
Supercharging productivity across the industry.
How we can use them mindfully and effectively.
Search bars are far more than icons and inputs.
How AI is shifting designers from makers to curators.
How semantic layers enhance color palettes.
Design systems are powerful, but not perfect.
High quality mockups to showcase your products.
“We cannot afford to let subscription models dictate our futures.”
Utopia’s fluid-type scale calculator gets a visualizer.
A quick way to check accessibility and visual design.
What’s certain is that SVG icons are the better choice.
AI’s struggle with typography, illustrated by an example.
Figma assets need better design-code alignment.
The design tools’ AI isn’t what you might think.
The new homes of classic A Book Apart books.
Why wireframes are outdated and what to use today.
Why a 20-year-old term could make a comeback.
User-provided data can be unevenly distributed.
An online tool to quickly create beautiful gauges.
How to create buttons that convert visitors into patrons.
“More sustainable fonts are also more legible and accessible.”
Design control is shifting to stakeholders and algorithms.
How adaptive UIs are transforming user-centered design.
“They’re forcing you to buy products you probably don’t need.”
Great UX design doesn’t ensure valuable outcomes.
A guide to color palettes for data visualizations.
“It might be the best term we came up with so far.”
A phenomenal tool for creating and checking color palettes.
The approach of the open-source Figma alternative.
Bing now lets you make images via the search bar.
Modern design tools simplify life but dull the basics.
How a new CSS capability will boost our designs.
“Like features, tokens can create little piles of technical debt.”
Explore the indie web, one blog at a time.
A collection of Xmas, flower, and line patterns.
Create night sky patterns for social media and websites.
A web tool for generating consistent color swatches.
“We need to redefine our role from implementor to enabler.”
Why measuring UX in dollars misses the bigger picture.
How different definitions of experience shape product perspectives.
Create confetti for social media and websites.
Let it snow, or bring on the emoji party!
Why shorten a URL when you can longer it?
New options for the versatile color scheme builder.
What exactly does it mean to develop those skills?
“Prioritize UX, and your users will thank you.”
Where AI can help and where human touch is needed.
A personal take on emerging design movements.
What the visual content giant means for creatives.
A web tool to pick accessible colors for data visualizations.
Essential guidelines for approaching accessible web design.
Exploring the browser as a storytelling medium.
The open-source AI tool reshapes vector graphics workflows.
Some ideas to inspire a different kind of web.
Customizable SVG patterns for your creative projects.
Designing for the foldable smartphone wave.
Is there a pattern language for digital spaces?
Login UX vs. security is tricky, but effort matters.
Short answer: no, but the real question is another.
The most common myths and how to avoid pitfalls.
Impressive web animation design patterns in practice.
A puzzle game to learn spotting deceptive design.
Key qualities of fitting and compelling illustrations.
“Reading in dark mode doesn’t just mess with my eyes.”
Differences, use cases, and best practices.
Why trends shape, and sometimes limit, visual design.
Top cloud-based text-to-image tools compared.
Essential skills for designers to tackle accessibility daily.
What works, what’s outdated, and what’s next.
How to present visually dull work in a portfolio.
When new design mimics an earlier one.
A treasure of quotes about all things design.
Web design’s next evolution toward AI accessibility.
From copywriting to content design and beyond.
Simple steps to improve usability for all generations.
A crucial counterpart to your design system.
Towards a more personal, thoughtful digital presence.
A browser-based driving game with generated scenery.
The tool feels more like Figma than After Effects.
“The future of cursors holds some exciting possibilities.”
Upload an image and convert it to ASCII art.
“There’s no such thing as UI-less anything.”
How to craft clear, effective UX messaging.
How they differ and how to choose the right one.
Generate custom color palettes using themes or keywords.
Why is the vertical bar the clear winner?
Ways to assess user perception of content.
When and how to disclose the use of AI-based tools.
“Good design doesn’t just prevent errors; it makes error recovery effortless.”
“The most successful digital products weren’t built by following heat maps. They were built by teams with crystal-clear visions of what they wanted users to achieve.”
Towards more humane and soulful interfaces.
Valuable lessons for UX and web designers.
Where flowers and love come to life.
Practical techniques and useful Figma toolkits.
A vast collection of open-source SVG icons.
Cutting-edge ideas for your next web project.
Let’s make hidden text work for everyone.
Why bad UX doesn’t always drive users away.