A practical guide on how to choose and tweak typefaces for your design project
Using Google Fonts, Figma and your eyes
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Interaction design is more than just user flows and clicks
How to evaluate interaction costs and improve UX.
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Are bad graphical descriptions better than none to someone with vision loss?
More than 125K global websites use overlays rather than fixing their accessibility bugs. AI-generated alt-text used by overlays is not 100…
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Tools to invent better futures
Experimental tools to align speculative and futures design with core values and life-centred thinking.
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Designing for climate change
I’ve been writing, speaking, and practicing Behavioral Design for over a decade, focusing on climate. Lately, as more and more people in…
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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 ..
A rant and a wishlist for ed-tech in India
Re-imagining EducationQuality Education is a service design problem.Photo by olia danilevich from Pexels(This article was “written in public”. After a skeleton draft was posted on LinkedIn and Twitter seeking feedback, the attributed responses below were used to further refine and add to the key tak..
The problem with Dribbble-esque design
The dangers of Dribbble-esque designsDribbble-esque: adjective — A characteristic of the poor usability and nightmarish qualities that come with Dribbble posts.After some research about this topic, I found out that I am not the only one who thinks there's a problem with the Dribbble trend. Ther..
The most loved typeface in the world
Typeface StorySteve Jobs on Time Magazine cover, vol. Oct. 17, 2011In Steve Jobs's famous Stanford speech he reflected how he became attached to typefaces.
Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I lear..
Common accessibility considerations for designers
An Accessibility Checklist for DesignersOne of the most common things I am asked for when it comes to accessibility in design is a checklist of accessibility “to-do” items. In many situations, my response to this request is that the World Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is your best referenc..
