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Careful When Changing the Display of `summary`
I got a very helpful bug report the other day (thanks Kilian!) about the
element in a blog post of mine not showing the default ▶ icon, and thus looking rather like any ol’ random
. It wasn’t terribly hard to diagnose. I just opened the page in Firefox, inspected the element in Firefox..
Routine building with system wide meta-layers
Imagining a tech integration to help us follow routines and achieve goalsWhile many people do their new years resolutions and define personal goals for the next year, it shows that goals themselves do not by themselves lead to behavioral change. Instead, the system in which you act needs to change i..
UX Research isn’t a bottleneck, it’s a decanter
Photo from PexelsI’ve noticed a concerning trend in UX in the past few months. Earlier this year, a friend sent me a post citing the shift at Uber from UX research to A/B tests as proof that researchers were getting in the way of decision making. At a recent virtual UXR conference, I read a number o..
New takes on UX Research from emerging professions
Most people still don't exactly know what we do. Let's turn that into an advantage
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Flash’s Web Tech Legacy
Tiffany B. Brown on how Flash paved the way for some things we might think of as fairly modern web technologies:
Flash wasn’t just good for playing multimedia. It was also good for manipulating it. Using ActionScript, you could pan audio, adjusting the input for the user’s left and right speakers, ..
Animating with Lottie
I believe animation on the web is not only fun, but engaging in such a way that it has converted site visitors into customers. Think of the “Like” button on Twitter. When you “like” a tweet, tiny colorful bubbles spread around the heart button while it appears to morph into a circle around the butto..
CSS Snapshot 2020
I think it’s great that the CSS Working Group does these. It’s like planting a flag in the ground saying this is what CSS looks like at this specific point in time. They do specifically say it’s not for us CSS authors though…
This document collects together into one definition all the specs that to..
Why we don’t like to wait and how to improve the user experience through...
Yeah, we don’t like to wait. Either in a supermarket line or loading a website. It is at our core.
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Create a button component with Figma Variants + Auto Layout
Early this year, I posted an article about create button components using Figma’s Auto Layout. Over the past few months, Figma had dramatically improved their Auto Layout. YES! They finally allow you to adjust the spacing individually!! That was my biggest complaint about Auto Layout at that time.
T..
Retrofitting for an accessible colour palette: beyond the “nice-to-have” improvement
According to the Web AIM million survey, 86.3% of the million home pages they analysed have low text contrast. It is the most common issue they found. However, web accessibility is becoming a more and more important topic. In Europe and according to the Accessibility Web Directive, content creators ..
