Designed with love

A montage of 24 UX films created between 2018 and 2020 for a variety of Microsoft digital products. Read the full story ⟶

5 academic research papers every designer should read

These research papers encapsulate academic concepts and heuristics which could be employed to deliver meaningful experiences. Read the full story ⟶

Front-end predictions for 2021

If 2020 has proven anything, it’s that predicting the future is a mug’s game. With that said, here are my predictions for where front-end development is heading over the next 12 months. Read the full story ⟶

Grids part 2: Semantics

This is part 2 in a series about ARIA grids (not at all related to CSS grids) Read the full story ⟶

How to Add Commas Between a List of Items Dynamically with CSS

Imagine you have a list of items. Say, fruit: Banana, Apple, Orange, Pear, Nectarine We could put those commas (,) in the HTML, but let’s look at how we could do that in CSS instead, giving us an extra level of control. We’ll make sure that last item doesn’t have a comma while we’re at it. I neede..

Building Flexible Components With Transparency

Good thinking from Paul Hebert on the Cloudfour blog about colorizing a component. You might look at a design comp and see a card component with a header background of #dddddd, content background of #ffffff, on an overall background of #eeeeee. OK, easy enough. But what if the overall background bec..

Poll: Is Burger King Rebrand a Taste of the Future?

Burger King, the globally recognized food chain with 19,000 restaurants worldwide, has unveiled a redesigned set of brand assets. Since the late 1960s, the company has used a logotype sandwiched between two buns. In 1999 the design was updated to add a blue swoosh and some plastic highlights to the..

Design can be fun when we remove the gatekeepers.

— 100 design lessons for 2021 Design can be fun when we remove the gatekeepers. was originally published in UX Collective on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

“Your work is done when it looks so simple that the consumer thinks they...

“Your work is done when it looks so simple that the consumer thinks they could’ve done it, which means they won’t appreciate how hard you worked.”Artists, designers, writers, and anyone else who produces creative work, this is a must-read essay by David Perell: Expression is Compression. Some of my ..

17 slick examples of websites built with no-code

Getting your ideas and products out into the world doesn’t have to be complicated anymore. Continue reading on UX Collective »