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The A to Z of UX — H is for Heuristics: 9 steps to carry out...
Heuristics are a well established and accepted list of UX principles used to assess how well a user interface has been designed for its…
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The state of design in 2021: How to bring us together again
A lonely designer’s critique of today, and a renewed purpose of the social value of design for tomorrow.
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Why would we care about user onboarding?
Photo by Uri Paz on UnsplashWhy would we care about onboarding? Shouldn’t we just create a user registration form to get someone signed up and dump them into the middle of our product as quickly as possible? Changes are you won’t have much success retaining such users. You’ve spent a bunch of time, ..
How to use the new ProtoPie plugin for Adobe XD
ProtoPie has rebuilt the importing feature for Adobe XD. Supporting a wealth of new features that’s sure to improve your XD to ProtoPie…
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UX Trends 2020: A retrospective
The best UX trends speed up interactions, improve usability, and reduce friction. 2020 has reinforced some trends from the previous year, including AI-assisted voice interactions, hyper-personalization, and hand-drawn content; and produced a handful of new UX trends that will endure through the comi..
useStateInCustomProperties
In my recent “Custom Properties as State” post, one of the things I mentioned was that theoretically, UI libraries, like React and Vue, could automatically map the state they manage over to CSS Custom Properties so we could use that state right there if we wanted.
Someone should make a useStateWit..
How to Play and Pause CSS Animations with CSS Custom Properties
Let’s have a look CSS @keyframes animations, and specifically about how you can pause and otherwise control them. There is a CSS property specifically for it, that can be controlled with JavaScript, but there is plenty of nuance to get into in the details. We’ll also look at my preferred way of sett..
What if you could cut your hosting costs by 80%? Webiny Serverless CMS makes...
Are you hosting one or more websites and are using a headless CMS? Are you hosting your CMS on a virtual machine or a container, or using a SaaS solution? If so, then you’re paying for the uptime, regardless if the server or service is serving requests or not. Essentially, you are paying for stuff y..
When AI inspires human creators
Machine Learning can also be fueled by beauty and meaning
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6 Best Ecommerce Solutions for 2021
It’s never been easier to set up an ecommerce store and start selling. There are a dizzying array of ecommerce solutions available in 2021, and most are feature-rich and competitively priced.
Ecommerce sites are notoriously difficult to migrate from platform to platform, so more often than not, you..
