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Design for trust
Trust is a powerful force for driving user action. And since aesthetics is a dimension of trust, every designer should try to understand…
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Design v18
I redesigned the site! I can never think about the word redesign without also thinking about realigning, from Cameron Moll’s seminal article. I did not start from nothing. This design wasn’t a blank design canvas and empty code editor thing. I doubt any future redesign will be either. I started with..
Automatic Social Share Images
It’s a pretty low-effort thing to get a big fancy link preview on social media. Toss a handful of specific tags on a URL and you get a big image-title-description thing. Here’s Twitter’s version of an article on this site:
It’s particularly low-effort on this site, as our Yoast SEO plugin pu..
Chapter 6: Web Design
Previously in web history…
After the first websites demonstrate the commercial and aesthetic potential of the web, the media industry floods the web with a surge of new content. Amateur webzines — which define and voice and tone unique to the web — are soon joined by traditional publishers. By the ..
Simulating Drop Shadows with the CSS Paint API
Ask a hundred front-end developers, and most, if not all, of them will have used the box-shadow property in their careers. Shadows are enduringly popular, and can add an elegant, subtle effect if used properly. But shadows occupy a strange place in the CSS box model. They have no effect on an elemen..
Deal: The Preposterously Huge Book of Google Font Combinations
Google Fonts is one of the most useful tools designers have, with hundreds of amazing fonts provided for free. But if you just grab one of the top ten suggestions, you’re missing out on a vast wealth of typographic gems.
Just about every font on Google Fonts is worth trying out, but the very best d..
Squads, tribes, guild: To be like Spotify or not?
Spotify’s business model which is an organizational model, the applications with the same name made a tremendous impact with its great success. Most technology companies and new business enterprises trying to achieve the same success with the strategy of ‘’Spotify Squads’’.Is It Possible to Scale th..
Using the Hook Model for user research
The Hook Model was first introduced in the book called “Hooked” by Nir Eyal, an Israeli-born American author, lecturer and investor. It is a thinking model to be used to build Habit-Forming Products. The book covers topics like how habits are formed using the hooked model and few examples of compani..
How to Establish Emotion
How to establish emotionTo create an impactful, influential and engaging experience is simpler than you’d think.You’ll need an understanding of how to create those emotions in others. Using frameworks that can paint a picture of the audience’s needs.
A project can often chase a purely functional sol..
Green by default
This simple psychological trick could vastly reduce tech’s carbon footprint.We humans are creatures of comfort. We like taking the easy route, the low-hanging fruit, the way that doesn’t make us think.
That’s why default options and standards are so powerful. We’re more likely to stick with them tha..
