CategoryUX

December 23, 2019 — Voice assistants are hopping out of emerging tech and into everyday life. As a front end developer, you already have the skills to build one, so let’s dive into the platforms. Read more…

December 9, 2019 — Brand illustrations are an adaptable and effective way to build a company’s visual brand. In this article, Yihui Liu outlines her process for developing a strong brand illustration system. Read more…

November 21, 2019 — What if we removed “fear” from the “fear of missing out” and put the good parts of this marketing strategy to use in web and app design? This article unpacks four ways you can use (F)OMO when designing digital experiences. Read more…

November 19, 2019 — In UI/UX, a common pattern that’s needed time and again is that of a simple animated opening and closing panel, or ‘drawer’. You don’t need a library to make these. With some basic HTML/CSS and JavaScript, we’re going to learn how to do it ourselves. Read more…

November 11, 2019 — When it comes to putting our visitors on the spot, giving them too many options hurts their decision-making ability along with how they feel about the experience as a whole. Read more…

November 4, 2019 — A significant part of the Internet-using population is aged 50 or older — including the people who invented it. Designers need to understand what older users need and why it’s not enough to just say, “I can read it, so what’s the problem?” Read more…

October 31, 2019 — What is it that makes a haunted house feel so disturbing? Is it the fact that it’s been long abandoned? That it’s riddled with dark and twisty hallways? That it simulates danger? Or maybe it’s the low-quality construction that makes people nervous? We’re going to take these frightening characteristics and spin them around for the web. After all, what is a website, but a digital house? (Let’s just make sure yours doesn’t feel haunted!) Read more…

October 21, 2019 — When someone reads a story, they have certain expectations about how that story will unfold. And they have them even if they don’t know how to articulate them. The same is true about users coming to our websites. We can pull principles from storytelling to help us meet and, hopefully, exceed those user expectations. Read more…

October 2, 2019 — In this article, we will use speech-to-text to draft transcripts of podcasts and interviews for publication. We’ll also evaluate the overall accuracy of these format-transformation technologies by running a few samples through round-trip transcriptions. Read more…

September 25, 2019 — This is a detailed guide for those who are struggling with tables in Figma. We’ll create a table using components, so that later on you could save a lot of time on scalability and edits. Moreover, you’ll be able to easily integrate the table into your design system. Read more…