New takes on UX Research from emerging professions

Most people still don't exactly know what we do. Let's turn that into an advantage Continue reading on UX Collective »

Flash’s Web Tech Legacy

Tiffany B. Brown on how Flash paved the way for some things we might think of as fairly modern web technologies: Flash wasn’t just good for playing multimedia. It was also good for manipulating it. Using ActionScript, you could pan audio, adjusting the input for the user’s left and right speakers, ..

Animating with Lottie

I believe animation on the web is not only fun, but engaging in such a way that it has converted site visitors into customers. Think of the “Like” button on Twitter. When you “like” a tweet, tiny colorful bubbles spread around the heart button while it appears to morph into a circle around the butto..

CSS Snapshot 2020

I think it’s great that the CSS Working Group does these. It’s like planting a flag in the ground saying this is what CSS looks like at this specific point in time. They do specifically say it’s not for us CSS authors though… This document collects together into one definition all the specs that to..

Why we don’t like to wait and how to improve the user experience through...

Yeah, we don’t like to wait. Either in a supermarket line or loading a website. It is at our core. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Create a button component with Figma Variants + Auto Layout

Early this year, I posted an article about create button components using Figma’s Auto Layout. Over the past few months, Figma had dramatically improved their Auto Layout. YES! They finally allow you to adjust the spacing individually!! That was my biggest complaint about Auto Layout at that time. T..

Retrofitting for an accessible colour palette: beyond the “nice-to-have” improvement

According to the Web AIM million survey, 86.3% of the million home pages they analysed have low text contrast. It is the most common issue they found. However, web accessibility is becoming a more and more important topic. In Europe and according to the Accessibility Web Directive, content creators ..

This simple story can help you explain UX and UI design

And why you can’t have one without the other. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Do we need a new approach for designing with AI?

Networked technology has networked effects. These effects are often intangibly and recursively amplified through a system when machine learning is in use. Does human-centered design still make sense when we’re designing for AI?This post considers some of the limitations of Human Centered Design for ..

How to kick-off Discovery Sprints, reframe a problem and align your team

Empower Agile teams to build the right thing.In my job as Product & Service Designer at the experience agency Accenture Interactive, I'm working on new product and service innovations for our clients. In some projects I can dedicate several weeks for user research, iterating on a value proposit..