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Fixing user personas
User personas can be problematic. Is there a way to turn them into a useful resource?User personas are controversial. They’re built with great intentions, and then break down. People aren’t sure how to create them. They sit in drawers and hang on the wall, forgotten or ignored.
But personas can be v..
Measuring design quality with heuristics
Photo by William Warby on UnsplashHow do we measure design quality? This question has been asked at every company where I’ve led design, and it comes not only from designers but from stakeholders and executives as well. Solutions range from “we’ll know it when we see it”, to principle-based evaluati..
The one design skill to unlock them all
Self-awareness will help you hire and nurture a design team that’s curious, flexible, and authentic
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Some Recent Videos About Websites That Are Pretty Good
Here’s a little hodgepodge of videos I’ve recently bookmarked (and watched). I couldn’t decide if each one of them should be a separate blog post or if I should do this combined list post thing. If I had a lot more to say about each video I would have split them off, but I went with the combined pos..
Measuring design quality with heuristics
How do we measure design quality? This question has been asked at every company where I’ve led design, and it comes not only from designers, but from stakeholders and executives as well.
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How to write digital products with personality
The right words will shape the entire experience.
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Plotting the year with a bullet journal
For those new to bullet journaling, it’s a method of personal organization that includes schedules, reminders, to-dos, and brainstorming.
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Is progressive enhancement dead yet?
Progressive enhancement is Scary Mary™ to some but there is no need to cry or pass out.
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The art of building real-life components
It’s fairly possible to judge a component and say that it’s easy to implement it in HTML&CSS. I agree,
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Custom Properties as State
Here’s a fun idea from James Stanley: a CSS file (that presumably updates daily) containing CSS custom properties for “seasonal” colors (e.g. spring is greens, fall is oranges). You’d then use the values to theme your site, knowing that those colors change slightly from day to day.
This is what I ..
