The 4 Tendencies and how we can use them in user experience design

What if all our users fall into these four groups? Continue reading on UX Collective »

How to be a design ethicist at any company

The tech industry has immense work to do to take design ethics seriously, but you can be a leader at your company. We need you.It’s easy to feel stuck, frozen, and unsupported when trying to get your team or company to take design ethics seriously. But now more than ever, it’s so important that desi..

The UCD sense: I see a need for systemic change

The job ad said “content designer”. The interviewer was very keen to hear about your content design experience, and spoke animatedly about the organisation moving to a user-centred design approach.But by mid-morning of your first day, perhaps sooner, you know. Photo by Matthew T Rader on UnsplashSpi..

WhatsApp or Signal — or both?

WhatsApp or Signal — or both?Would you switch? How important is it for you?WhatsApp or Signal or BothThere have been a plethora of articles, news reports, facts mixed with rumours plastered all over the web being sent around to all my contacts, I myself have been inundated with messages requesting m..

How to discover your customers’ willingness to pay

This is a step-by-step guide on applying best practice qualitative and quantitative techniques to discover your customers’ WTP Continue reading on UX Collective »

HTML Video Sources Should Be Responsive

Scott Jehl doesn’t mince words here: Removing media support from HTML video was a mistake. It means that for every video we embed in HTML, we’re stuck with the choice of serving source files that are potentially too large or small for many users’ devices (resulting in poor performance, wasteful dat..

:focus-visible Support Comes to Firefox

Look at that! The :focus-visible pseudo-selector is now supported in Firefox, as of version 85 which shipped yesterday. I had to rush over to the MDN Docs just to confirm, and yep, the :focus-visible page has been updated to reflect the news. What’s so cool about :focus-visible? It’s all about the ..

How to Favicon in 2021

I always appreciate someone looking into and re-evaluating the best practices of something that literally every website needs and has a complex set of requirements. Andrey Sitnik has done that here with favicons. The final suggestion: <link rel=..

The 15 Best Cinema & Movie Effect Photoshop Action Sets for 2021

Sometimes, the need will arise to make your photographs look like they were produced for a big-budget film. And while you can manually create these looks within Photoshop, it would take you a good amount of time. Photoshop actions to the rescue! Today, we’ve compiled a fantastic list of cinema and ..

The Differences in Web Hosting (Go with the Happy Path)

One of our readers checked out “Helping a Beginner Understand Getting a Website Live” and had some follow up questions specifically about hosting providers. Here’s what they asked: What’s the difference between hosting providers? For example, what is the difference between GoDaddy and Hostgator, wh..