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The 10,000 Year Clock Design Principals
8.1.2019
In the new year edition of the Clearleft newsletter, Jeremy Keith linked to the design principals Danny Hillis thought about while considering a clock that would work for 10,000 years.
Here's part of that page, satisfyingly displayed as a <dl>:
Longevity:
Go slow
Avoid sliding friction...
The Elements of UI Engineering
4.1.2019
I really enjoyed this post by Dan Abramov. He defines his work as a UI engineer and I especially like what he writes about his learning experience:
My biggest learning breakthroughs weren’t about a particular technology. Rather, I learned the most when I struggled to solve a particular UI problem....
Inspirational Websites from 2018
18.12.2018
An inspirational collection of our favourite website designs from 2018.
Inspirational Websites from 2018 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
Web Designs That Feel Like Ancient History, but Are More Recent Than You Think
12.12.2018
Flickr announced not long ago that they are limiting free accounts to 1,000 photos. I don't particularly mind that (because it seems like sound business sense), although it is a bit sad that a ton of photos will be nuked from the internet. I imagine the Internet Archive will swoop in and get most...
Top 10 Photoshop Plugins for Web Designers in 2018
16.10.2018
In 2018, Adobe Photoshop is still one of the top software choices for web designers. It’s an incredibly powerful and versatile tool in itself, however Photoshop plugins can further...
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What is design debt and how does it occur?
1.10.2018
Today, I want to talk about design debt. We often hear about technical debt and not so much about design debt. They are in fact different from one another...
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Designing A Usable Contact Page In WordPress: Tips & Trends
21.7.2018
Every great website needs a contact page. You can set this up on a static HTML site or a CMS like WordPress which offers a lot of flexibility &...
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One-Offs
2.7.2018
There is this sentiment that you don't design the homepage of a site first. For most sites, it's an anomaly. It's unlike any other page and not something to base the patterns you use for the rest of the site or help inform other pages.
You might call it a one-off.1
One-offs are OK! A world without...
Your Brain on Front-End Development
13.6.2018
Part of the job of being a front-end developer is applying different techniques and technologies to pull of the desired UI and UX. Perhaps you work with a design team and implement their designs. I know when I look at a design (heck, even if I know I'm not going to be building it), my front-end...
How Using White Space Improves Your Designs
31.5.2018
When hearing the term white space your mind might jump to white empty sidebars sandwiching the content in the center. However, white space, (or negative space) also refers to...
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Developing a design environment
28.5.2018
Jules Forrest discusses some of the work that her team at Credit Karma has been up to when it comes to design systems. Jules writes:
...in most engineering organizations, you spend your whole first day setting up your development environment so you can actually ship code. It’s generally pretty...
10 UX Tips to Build a High Converting Landing Page
28.5.2018
In the broader sense, a landing page is the web page through which a visitor “lands” a website. Homepages frequently serve as landing pages, however any other page can...
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designsystems.com
15.5.2018
The team at Figma has created a new resource for “learning, creating and evangelizing design systems” called Design Systems that already has a good collection of interviews and articles by some folks thinking about these things.
I particularly liked Jeroen Ransijn’s post on how to convince your...
Managing Heading Levels In Design Systems
3.5.2018
Heydon Pickering looks into how to give a React component a certain heading (like <h1>, <h2>, etc.) depending on its context and thereby ensure that the DOM is still perfectly accessible for screen readers. Why is using the right heading important though? Heydon writes in...
SOLID – (S)ingle Responsibility Principle
23.4.2018
V tomto článku představím Single Responsibility Princip ze SOLIDu. Ukážeme si, jak tento princip dodržovat na konkrétním příkladu, namalujeme si nějaké UML diagramy, a nakonec přiložím celý příklad k dispozici v Typescriptu
Design Tips For Extra Large Website Footers
27.3.2018
So you want a beautiful footer that’s usable and easy on the eyes? No problem! There’s a lot you can do for effective footers and with so much variety...
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Budoucnost Kiwi.com s Experience Designem a Davidem Tučem, novým šéfem designu
19.12.2017
„Naše služby vidím jako kousky skládačky, které potřebujeme dotvořit a propojit, abychom zákazníkům dodali ojedinělý cestovatelský zážitek,“ říká David Tuč, nový Head of Design v Kiwi.com. David Tuč patří mezi přední UX designéry a designéry služeb v České republice. Jeho kariéra je lemovaná...
Recenze knihy Vzhůru do (responzivního) webdesignu
14.9.2017
Pokud budete hledat knihu o implementaci a návrhu webů, zjistíte, že nemáte pomalu z čeho vybírat. Podobných publikací je jako šafránu. Není se čemu divit. Věci spjaté s tvorbou moderních webů se rychle mění. Psát knihu o tématech, které mohou být za dva roky zastaralé, není snadné. Toto léto však...