In our three-part series, Google’s User Experience researchers Nithya Sambasivan and Astrid Weber discuss the principles behind building globally accessible products, and offer practical resources for the design and development community. Here in part one, we’ll outline how designers and developers…

I very literally stumbled into my first job out of grad school while walking around employer booths at a conference…I’d had a beer and it was the end of a long day of listening to speakers 🍺 At the time, it felt like a dream job – designing software for GIS professionals (I majored in Geography and…

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge Former Google designer Nicholas Jitkoff, who’s now the vice president of design at Dropbox, has created a really nifty new web tool he’s calling itty bitty sites, or self-contained microsites that exist solely as URLs. You can create your own by following this…

Design systems have become core to the way we design and build at GitHub. Since 2011 GitHub designers have documented UI patterns and shared common styles. In 2012, CSS and other assets were packaged up into a Ruby Gem for use in GitHub websites — this package was named Primer . Primer continued to…

What is a good service and why are we so afraid to talk about it? I’ve been asking myself this question a lot recently. In a bid to find out, I tweeted this a few weeks ago and – bar a couple of people also wondering the same thing – got pretty much tumbleweeds in return. I’m not surprised. I’ve…

Art by @Hombre_McSteez The most idiotic question ever asked. Design practitioners get asked the value of their work all of the time. They never have a good answer. There are good reasons for this. Often, practitioners don’t actually add value. They tweak colors and shapes of objects on the screen,…

Improve your design skills with the power of cognitive psychology and user behavior. Design: self-made, Illustration Luckily there are a lot of articles about why psychology is important in UX/UI design. But unfortunately, only a few of them provide practical knowledge. What I mean by practical…

Seven easy-to-implement guidelines to design a more accessible web ❤️ Digital accessibility refers to the practice of building digital content and applications that can be used by a wide range of people, including individuals who have visual, motor, auditory, speech, or cognitive disabilities.…

Explore the various ways to implement search and the purpose behind each Feature Breakdown #4: Search for mobile apps After 3 feature breakdowns, I have another interesting feature for you — Search for mobile apps . In this story, I will be discussing how to pick between the two most popular ways of…

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By: 1. Give It a Purpose Before you can actually design a large website footer, decide how users should actually use it. A good footer design is not a place to dump all the links and information you don’t know what to do with. (Although way too many websites use it that way.) A good footer design…

Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug T he saying that “good design is obvious” is pretty damn old, and I am sure it took different shapes in the previous centuries. It referred to good food, music, architecture, clothes, philosophy and everything else. We forget that human mind changes very slow, and…

400+ Carefully designed icons set, perfect for use in your next web, mobile or desktop app. UsageDownload stopwatch Cheatsheet < i class = 'bx bx-stopwatch' > Copied SVG adjust alarm alarm-off album align-left align-middle align-right anchor aperture archive archive-in archive-out arrow-back…

“You’re my guy. I’m yours forever. Now, how much is this going to cost me, ten grand?” I’d just met this guy on Instagram twelve hours before this conversation, and we were already sealing the deal. “A bit more. Let me put everything we just discussed in writing, and I’ll send it over for a…

If you’ve been to any web design talk in the last couple of years, you’ve probably seen this famous tweet by Jon Gold: It mocks the fact that a lot of today’s websites look the same, as they all follow the same standard layout practices that we’ve collectively decided to use. Building a blog? Main…

Because I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC. This diagram got updated about 341 times while writing this article. Okay, so there are a lot of design tools out there these days. A significant amount of discussion is happening around the topic of ‘Design Systems’. It’s a wanky name (It is. Seriously), but it’s a…

My thoughts on designing for the user in the physical and digital world. Hi, this is my very first story on Medium, so I’d like to start with a topic that is very close to me… I’m an Architect by profession. After graduation, I worked for a few years as an Architect but soon realized that User…

Styles, prototyping++ and design at scale Desktop-based design can come with a hefty price. Teams spend their days managing a Frankenstein workflow: Which prototype has stakeholder comments? Is the style guide up to date? Are we all working from the right version of the design? We think there’s a…

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Observing the behaviour of 21 drivers has made me realize what’s wrong with automotive UX I recently had the opportunity to Uber home in a Tesla. Being a Tesla fanboy, I was ecstatic when the Model X pulled over and chauffeured me in with its falcon doors. The driver started giving me the rundown of…

About The Author Eric is a Boston-based designer who helps create straightforward solutions that address a person’s practical, physical, cognitive, and emotional needs using …More about Eric … June 20, 2018 Don’t Use The Placeholder Attribute 14 min read Performance, User Experience, Browsers…

Visual details like fonts, colors, alignment, and images are increasingly expected to not just create a usable experience, but also to express the complex brand traits such as friendliness, reliability, or innovation. Many teams begin by defining the target brand traits ; then designers and…