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Image by Luca Florio Photo of fox statues at a shrineIn a previous article, I wrote about what Japan can teach us about UX and Universal Design. However, Japan's product design is another area of ux design success; both in its approach to the aesthetic qualities and its functionality. Here are ..

Welcome to our roundup of the best plugins for popular CMS, this month. We’re going to cover plugins built to enhance WordPress, Shopify, Craft CMS, and Joomla. Enjoy! WordPress Tutor LMS Elementor Addons Tutor LMS Elementor Addons is a useful plugin that adds 25+ add-ons to the Elementor page buil..

Presenting branding and website designs to clients comes with its own set of challenges. It would be pointless to develop a fully working website only to discover the client doesn’t like it. That’s why designers use mockups. It’s a lot easier to edit a mockup than start coding a website from scratc..

As a Designer, Is Failure a Necessary Part of Success? We all go through it at one time or another. You’re working on a project and no matter how hard you try, you just can’t seem to get it to “work.” The colors are wrong, the type is inappropriate, the composition is hideous – it’s just a mess, an..

One of the truly great aspects of the web design community is its willingness to share solutions and ideas. As such, many people choose to post tutorials and helpful code snippets on their blogs. When displaying code, it’s a good idea to make snippets look as clean and easy to read as possible. You..

I poked at a tweet from Ken Kocienda over the weekend: “Water not wet” reports man standing in ocean. https://t.co/5oUUdWARTU — Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) January 31, 2021 I don’t know Ken, so I feel a little bad for being harsh. But I haven’t changed how I feel. Saying “Web browsers are for vie..

I spent a week on Signal to understand what lies behind the hype.Understanding what lies behind the hypeThis post focusses on the user experience on Signal and not on Whatsapp’s updated privacy policy.It’s hard to compete with headlines of Trump becoming the only president in US history to get impea..

It was a beautiful day in Santa Barbara, California, and I was walking down to work listening to an episode of my favorite podcast 99%… Continue reading on UX Collective »

Viewing Google Maps icons through the perspective of ancient mapsAlaska (Prince of Wales Island), Copper Mountain and vicinity, 1909, by Sargent, R. H.The smell of aged parchment and centuries-dried ink, the slight sound of large sheets rustling and flat drawers rolling open, the soft feel of worn a..

In search for the missing link between physical and digital that will enable more meaningful and tangible experiences.Illustration by AuthorIn my 10+ years working for both in-house teams and design consultancies I’ve had the opportunity to work for large, Fortune 500 companies as well as early-stag..