Houdini.how

Nice site from Google (and guest contributors) with a bunch of fun demos of what Houdini can do. Plus a write-up from Una. These are all Paint API demos. Houdini is technically a group of seven things that are all pretty cool, and the Paint API is just one of them. Paint is fun, but things will star..

Centering in CSS

Adam Argyle has a post over on web.dev digging into this. He starts with the assumption that you need to do vertical centering and horizontal centering. It’s that vertical centering that has traditionally been a bit trickier for folks, particularly when the height of the content is unknown. We have..

The designer’s curriculum

What to study if you’re interested in Product or UX Design. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Redefining growth as a product designer

How confronting my Imposter Syndrome led me to redefine growth based on values, not goals. Continue reading on UX Collective »

A Designer’s Guide to 8 Basic WordPress UX Elements

The ultimate success of a WordPress website is closely linked to how effectively it presents in front of a user. The experience generated from this visual contact determines acceptance and significantly contributes to how the site fare against the competition. If the site must meet its mark and establish a robust online foothold, several key elements must be taken into consideration

Good and bad questions for a Design Sprint

Design Sprint is a fantastic tool in the innovation toolbox. But just as real tools, it works well for specific tasks and bad for others. What criteria should a good sprint question meet?This post is a modification of the original post published on Frankwatching.nl (in Dutch). Design thinking is sim..

Tips for starting off as a new b2b product manager

Lessons from a PM manager Continue reading on UX Collective »

A font-display setting for slow connections

Me, I really dislike FOUT. I like that it’s an option, because not displaying text quickly on the web is no good. I know font-display: swap; is popular because it’s good for performance, but that FOUT stuff pains me. Matt Hobbs: If there’s one thing I’d like readers to take away from this post it’..

3 Steps to Enable Client Hints on Your Image CDN

The goal of Client Hints is to provide a framework for a browser when informing the server about the context in which a web experience is provided. HTTP Client Hints are a proposed set of HTTP Header Fields for proactive content negotiation in the Hypertext Transfer Protocol. The client can adverti..

Using research to showcase the value of design

Moving design beyond aesthetics and towards business strategy Continue reading on UX Collective »