Implications of cross-cultural design for usability and A/B testing

Cultural background affects visual preferences, which in turn impacts how quickly people navigate websites and how much information they can remember.By Slater DesignWhen I lived in Argentina during my undergrad, I began to notice how much of the tech industry was centered in the US. I noticed how d..

Building better products with a design token pipeline

Getting design tokens from design tools to code.You may know what design tokens are and what benefits they can bring. But you may wonder how exactly to start using them and how you can integrate them into your workflow. I this article you will learn just that: How to lean on design tokens to make be..

UI & UX micro-tips: Volume one

A collection of handy tips to help improve your designs instantly. Continue reading on UX Collective »

How Clubhouse’s accessibility issues block users with disabilities from joining the conversation

The audio-based social platform must do more to welcome disabled users. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Exploring the Complexities of Width and Height in CSS

The following article is co-authored by Uri Shaked and Michal Porag. Let’s explore the complexities of how CSS computes the width and height dimensions of elements. This is based on countless late-night hours debugging and fiddling with lots of combinations of CSS properties, reading though the spe..

Weekly Platform News: The :not() pseudo-class, Video Media Queries, clip-path: path() Support

Hey, we’re back with weekly updates about the browser landscape from Šime Vidas. In this week’s update, the CSS :not pseudo class can accept complex selectors, how to disable smooth scrolling when using “Find on page…” in Chrome, Safari’s support for there media attribute on

Some React Blog Posts I’ve Bookmarked and Read Lately

The React Hooks Announcement In Retrospect: 2 Years Later — Ryan Carniato considers hooks to be the most significant turning point in front end in the past five years, but he also says hooks have muddied the waters as well.Mediator Component in React — Robin Wieruch’s article made me think just how ..

Weekly News for Designers № 578

Pika – Download this easy to use, open-source, native color picker for macOS. Luxa CSS – A minimalist CSS framework to help you design and build quickly. KTRZ Monokai – Coders, check out this minimal Visual Studio Code theme with the Monokai color scheme. Where Two-Factor Authentication Falls Sho..

Ideating within constraints — utilizing context to design strategically

Leveraging the constraints around our work to envision a broader range of ideas that incite critical thinking & debate Continue reading on UX Collective »

How Robinhood damaged its brand image instantly

Customers value transparency and authenticity — Robinhood failed to deliver Continue reading on UX Collective »