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Designing For Neurodiversity
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Designing for neurodiversity means recognizing that people aren’t edge cases but individuals with varied ways of thinking and navigating the web. So, how can we create more inclusive experiences that work better for everyone?
17時間前
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Prelude To Summer (June 2025 Wallpapers Edition)
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Let’s kick off June — and the beginning of summer — with some fresh inspiration! Artists and designers from across the globe once again tickled their creativity to welcome the new month with a new collection of desktop wallpapers. Enjoy!
3日前
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Reliably Detecting Third-Party Cookie Blocking In 2025
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The web is mired in a struggle to eliminate third-party cookies, with the World Wide Web Consortium Technical Architecture Group leading the charge. But there are obstacles preventing this from happening, and, as a result, many essential web features continue to rely on cookies to function properly. That’s why detecting third-party cookie blocking isn’t just good technical hygiene but a frontline defense for user experience.
6日前
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Data Vs. Findings Vs. Insights In UX
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What’s the difference between data, findings, and UX insights? And how do you argue for statistical significance in your UX research? Let’s unpack it.
7日前
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What Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance Can Teach Us About Web Design
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Road-tripping along the line between engineering and spirituality, Robert M. Pirsig’s musings on the arts, sciences, and Quality ring as true now as they ever have.
11日前
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Smashing Animations Part 3: SMIL’s Not Dead Baby, SMIL’s Not Dead
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While there are plenty of ways that CSS animations can bring designs to life, adding simple SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) animations in SVG can help them do much more. Andy Clarke explains where SMIL animations in SVG take over where CSS leaves off.
13日前
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Design System In 90 Days
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Helpful PDF worksheets and tools to get the design system effort up and running — and adopted! Kindly powered by How To Measure UX and Design Impact, a friendly course on how to show the impact of your incredible UX work on business.
15日前
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Building A Practical UX Strategy Framework
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Learn how to create and implement a UX strategy framework that shapes work and drives real business value.
18日前
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Fewer Ideas: An Unconventional Approach To Creativity
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Remember that last team brainstorming session where you were supposed to generate a long list of brilliant ideas? How many of those ideas actually stuck? Did leadership act on any of those ideas? In this article, Eric Olive challenges the value of exercises like brainstorming and explores more effective methods for sparking creativity to improve design and enhance the user’s experience.
19日前
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Smashing Animations Part 2: How CSS Masking Can Add An Extra Dimension
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What if you could take your CSS animations beyond simple fades and slides — adding an extra dimension and a bit of old-school animation magic? In this article, pioneering author and web designer [Andy Clarke](https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk) will show you how masking can unlock new creative possibilities for CSS animations, making them feel more fluid, layered, and cinematic.
20日前
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Integrating Localization Into Design Systems
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Learn how two designers tackled the challenges of building a localization-ready design system for a global audience. This case study dives into how Rebecca and Mark combined Figma Variables and design tokens to address multilingual design issues, such as text overflow, RTL layouts, and font inconsistencies.
22日前
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Integrating Design And Code With Native Design Tokens In Penpot
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The Penpot team is not slowing down on its mission to build a free design tool that not only offers powerful design features but is also well-integrated with code and modern development practices. In its latest release, Penpot, as the first design tool ever, introduces support for native design tokens. Let’s take a closer look at this concept and how you can employ it in your process.
1ヶ月前
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Smashing Animations Part 1: How Classic Cartoons Inspire Modern CSS
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Have you ever thought about how the limitations of early cartoon animations might relate to web design today? From looping backgrounds to minimal frame changes, these retro animation techniques have surprising parallels to modern CSS. In this article, pioneering author and web designer [Andy Clarke](https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk) shows how he applied these principles to Emmy-winning composer Mike Worth’s new website, using CSS to craft engaging and fun animations that bring his world to life.
1ヶ月前
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Masonry In CSS: Should Grid Evolve Or Stand Aside For A New Module?
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There were duelling proposals floating around for adding support for masonry-style layouts in CSS. In one corner is a proposal that extends the existing CSS Grid specification. In the other corner is a second proposal that sets up masonry as a standalone module. Well, not until recently. Now, there are three proposals with Apple WebKit’s “Item Flow” as the third option. The first two sides make strong points, and the third one merges them into one, all of which you will learn about in this article.
1ヶ月前
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How To Launch Big Complex Projects
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When was the last time your project wrapped up smoothly — no delays, no surprises, no last-minute compromises? In reality, most UX projects drift as timelines slip, budgets stretch, and features morph. How do we get better at navigating the chaos? An upcoming part of How To Measure UX and Design Impact by yours truly.
1ヶ月前
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WCAG 3.0’s Proposed Scoring Model: A Shift In Accessibility Evaluation
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WCAG is evolving. Since 1999, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines have defined accessibility in binary terms: either a success criterion is met or not. But real user experience is rarely that simple. WCAG 3.0 rethinks the model — prioritizing usability over compliance and shifting the focus toward the quality of access rather than the mere presence of features. Could this be the start of a new era in accessibility?
1ヶ月前
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Make Every Day Count (May 2025 Wallpapers Edition)
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The new month is just around the corner, and that means: It’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! All of them are designed with love by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!
1ヶ月前
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How To Turn Your Figma Designs Into Live Apps With Anima Playground
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As designers, it’s important to be able to transform visual ideas into concepts within minutes and into fully functional products within hours. Well, today we’re bringing you closer to AnimaApp, an app designed to make your life easier — whether you’re a designer, developer, product team member or entrepreneur.
1ヶ月前
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UX And Design Files Organization Template
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Lost in a sea of UX files, docs, PDFs, and scattered decisions across Slack, Dropbox, Notion, and Figma? We talk a lot about organizing Figma, but what about a sensible folder structure for all UX assets? Let’s fix that. Kindly powered by [Smart Interface Design Patterns](https://smart-interface-design-patterns.com).
1ヶ月前
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“Product Kondo”: A Guide To Evaluating Your Organizational Product Portfolio
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It starts with good intentions — a quick fix here, a shiny feature there — and suddenly, your product portfolio’s bursting at the seams. In this guide, Talke Hoppmann-Walton walks you through a “Product Kondo” exercise to declutter, realign, and spark some serious product joy for both your business and your customers.
1ヶ月前
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Boosting Up Your Creativity Without Endless Reference Scrolling
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While it is clear that creativity is driven by both the left and right hemispheres, an important question remains: how can we boost creativity while keeping the process enjoyable? It may not be obvious, but non-design-related activities can, in fact, be an opportunity to enhance creativity.
1ヶ月前
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Building An Offline-Friendly Image Upload System
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Poor internet connectivity doesn’t have to mean poor UX. With PWA technologies like `IndexedDB`, service workers, and the Background Sync API, you can build an offline-friendly image upload system that queues uploads and retries them automatically — so your users can upload stress-free, even when offline.
1ヶ月前
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What Does It Really Mean For A Site To Be Keyboard Navigable
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Keyboard navigation is a vital aspect of accessible web design, and a detail-oriented approach is crucial. Prioritizing keyboard navigation prioritizes the user experience for a diverse audience, extending your reach while simultaneously fostering a more inclusive web environment.
2ヶ月前
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Fostering An Accessibility Culture
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While there’s no definitive playbook for building an accessibility culture, Dani shares lessons from his experience in shaping it through habits rather than mandates.
2ヶ月前
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Inclusive Dark Mode: Designing Accessible Dark Themes For All Users
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Dark mode isn’t just a trendy aesthetic. It’s a gateway to more inclusive digital experiences, but only if designed thoughtfully. Discover how to craft dark modes that don’t just look good but work for everyone, from those with light sensitivity to machine learning algorithms.
2ヶ月前
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Gild Just One Lily
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“Gilding the lily” isn’t always bad. In design, a touch of metaphorical gold — a subtle animated transition, a hint of color, or added depth in a drop shadow — can help communicate a level of care and attention that builds trust. But first? You need a lily. Nail the fundamentals. Then, gild it carefully.
2ヶ月前
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Using Manim For Making UI Animations
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Animation makes things clearer, especially for designers and front-end developers working on UI, prototypes, or interactive visuals. Manim is a tool that lets you create smooth and dynamic animations, not just for the design field but also in math, coding, and beyond, to explain complex ideas or simply make everything a little bit more interactive.
2ヶ月前
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How To Build A Business Case To Promote Accessibility In Your B2B Products
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When passion for accessibility meets business indifference, what bridges the gap? Gloria Diaz Alonso shares how she turned frustration into strategy — by learning to speak the language of business.
2ヶ月前
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Building A Drupal To Storyblok Migration Tool: An Engineering Perspective
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In this article, Edoardo Dusi shares the engineering and architectural choices made by the team at Storyblok and how real-world migration challenges were addressed using modern PHP practices.
2ヶ月前
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Blossoms, Flowers, And The Magic Of Spring (April 2025 Wallpapers Edition)
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The beginning of the new month is the perfect opportunity to give your desktop a makeover. If you’re looking for some beautiful and unique wallpapers to cater for a bit of inspiration this April, well, this post has got you covered.
2ヶ月前
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How To Argue Against AI-First Research
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Companies have been turning their attention to “synthetic,” AI-driven user testing. However, as convenient as it might seem, it’s dangerous, expensive, and usually diminishes user value. Let’s take a closer look at why exactly it is problematic and how we can argue against it to make a case for UX research with real users. Part of [Smart Interface Design Patterns](https://smart-interface-design-patterns.com) by yours truly.
2ヶ月前
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Adaptive Video Streaming With Dash.js In React
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HTML `` is the de facto element we turn to for embedding video content, but it comes with constraints. For example, it downloads the video file linearly over HTTP, which leads to performance hiccups, especially for large videos consumed on slower connections. But with adaptive bitrate streaming, we can split the video into multiple segments at different bitrates and resolutions.
2ヶ月前
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Previewing Content Changes In Your Work With document.designMode
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You probably already know that you can use developer tools in your browser to make on-the-spot changes to a webpage — simply click the node in the Inspector and make your edits. But have you tried `document.designMode`? Victor Ayomipo explains how it can be used to preview content changes and demonstrates several use cases where it comes in handy for everything from basic content editing to improving team collaboration.
2ヶ月前
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Web Components Vs. Framework Components: What’s The Difference?
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Some critics question the agnostic nature of Web Components, with some even arguing that they are not real components. Gabriel Shoyomboa explores this topic in-depth, comparing Web Components and framework components, highlighting their strengths and trade-offs, and evaluating their performance.
3ヶ月前
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How To Prevent WordPress SQL Injection Attacks
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Have you thought about the security risks WordPress websites face? Anders Johansson explores why they are frequent hacker targets and shares how WordPress SQL injection attacks work and how to remove and prevent them.
3ヶ月前
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How To Build Confidence In Your UX Work
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UX initiatives are often seen as a disruption rather than a means to solving existing problems in an organization. In this post, we’ll explore how you can build trust for your UX work, gain support, and make a noticeable impact. Part of [Measure UX and Design Impact](https://measure-ux.com/) by yours truly.
3ヶ月前
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How To Fix Largest Contentful Paint Issues With Subpart Analysis
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Struggling with slow Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)? Newly introduced by Google, LCP subparts help you pinpoint where page load delays come from. Now, in the Chrome UX Report, this data provides real visitor insights to speed up your site and boost rankings. Matt Zeunert unpacks what LCP subparts are, what they mean for your website speed, and how you can measure them.
3ヶ月前
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The Case For Minimal WordPress Setups: A Contrarian View On Theme Frameworks
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Modern frameworks are supposed to help speed up development while providing modern tools and a developer-friendly workflow. In reality, Kevin Leary has found that they cause far more problems than they solve. This ultimately leads to the big question: why are modern theme frameworks so popular, and do they really benefit developers in the long run?
3ヶ月前
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Sunshine And March Vibes (2025 Wallpapers Edition)
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Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new batch of desktop wallpapers is for you. Designed by the community for the community, the wallpapers in this collection are the perfect opportunity to get your desktop ready for spring — and, who knows, maybe they’ll spark some new ideas, too. Enjoy!
3ヶ月前
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The Human Element: Using Research And Psychology To Elevate Data Storytelling
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Effective data storytelling isn’t a black box. By integrating UX research & psychology, you can craft more impactful and persuasive narratives. Victor Yocco and Angelica Lo Duca outline a five-step framework that provides a roadmap for creating data stories that resonate with audiences on both a cognitive and emotional level.
3ヶ月前