UI 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 ..

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..

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..

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 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..

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..

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Rules of thumb to improve the value and usability of your products through better writingImagine you are buying a gift for a friend, but instead of starting with choosing the gift, you first select the container and wrapping paper, then the actual present. Unless your friend is obsessed with pattern..

Image SourceClunky. Tedious. Outmoded. Just a few words that come to mind while using an enterprise application that’s well past its prime. Enterprise systems are created to serve multiple, different users who perform a range of actions under a specific role. They provide mission-critical solutions ..

The answer to “What is the most accessible HTML for an SVG icon?” isn’t one-size-fits all, because what an icon needs to do on a website varies. I’m partial to Heather Migliorisi’s research on all this, but I can summarize. Extremely quickly: hide it if it’s decorative, title it if it’s stand-alone,..