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How to use metaphors to gain an understanding of your customers mental model? Continue reading on UX Collective »

Of all the risks with adopting a design system, the most dangerous one is to keep working the same way. If that happens, what we have adopted is not a design system, but rather a UI component library. We might see benefits in the beginning: the UI looking fresher and more consistent, components nice..

Effective microcopy writings are human-oriented, it makes the application friendly, and the user feels important and smart.Some time ago I thought that it is not so important to think about microcopy in designs. But I was so mistaken) The biggest misconception is some designers believe that microcop..

Bootstrap 5 CheatSheet – This interactive reference will help you navigate the latest version of Twitter’s CSS framework. Make Animated Content Placeholders with HTML and CSS – Add user-friendly placeholders with this tutorial. Why Is Focusing on Long-Term Goals So Difficult? – Ways to help you ho..

Potential employers are busy people. They have the time-consuming task of reading many applications and resumes before finally selecting the perfect person. When you have the task of looking through so many resumes, you’re not only looking for those candidates that have the most experiences and bes..

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How to choose the ‘right’ design?!Have you ever had your design critiqued with words like this: “That’s not the right design” or “This is all wrong!”? Me too. In this article, we’re going to explore ways to view and present our design concepts to help others engage with our work in meaningful, posit..

Phonebloks, or when radical design intersected the long road to reliable and repairable objects Continue reading on UX Collective »

In this week’s roundup, WebKit’s prefixed autofill becomes a standard, the pointer cursor is for more than just links, and browsers are jumping on board to delay videos set to autoplay until they’re in view… plus more! Let’s jump right into it. CSS ::-webkit-autofill has become a standard feature ..

Bruce Lawson with the tip of the day, warning against the use of pointer-events: none on forms labels. We know that pointer-events is used to change how elements respond to click, tap, hover, and active states. But it apparently borks form labels, squashing their active hit target size to something ..