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Former Global Head of Design at Expedia Group, Rachel Kobetz, has joined PayPal as Senior Vice President and Chief Design Officer (CDO). The new executive will be responsible for the design strategy and execution at scale across all end-to-end experiences for consumers, merchants, developers, and employees globally.
A report from last month claimed that the developer workshops for Apple’s Vision Pro headset were very poorly attended. Developers have mixed expectations about Apple’s new product, considering it a risky investment. Apple denies these claims and says that the downloads of the SDK have exceeded its expectations.
What is your worth as a designer? What is your value? T. Robert Roeth asks himself those questions in a personal look at his 25-year-long career in design. Learn from his experience and see how his beliefs turned out to be misbeliefs.
Research conducted by Baymard showed that 21% of e-commerce websites have issues related to payment selection. However, there are easy wins that lead to significant results. Learn why you should consider offering more payment methods and updating buttons for third-party payment options instead of redesigning your entire checkout.
The term “equivalent experiences” is often used to communicate why accessibility is important. It implies that the experience should be the same for everyone. A closer look at Google’s use of the “three dots” button unintentionally proves another, more subtle point the phrase implies: poor design can confuse everyone.
This interactive guide covers everything relevant to building design systems. It includes design audit, structure, design tokens, collaboration, and metrics. A playbook completes the package, outlining all the questions you should ask when creating a product foundation.
A Kickstarter campaign was launched to fund an illustrated book about macOS iconography. The book features hundreds of icons designers and developers created over a decade.
More than 300 million people are colorblind. Covering this audience is a precious skill. This website brings several tools and resources to ensure designers are paying attention to them.
Solid design principles are usually a common trait among good products. Check out more than a thousand design principles based on the best real-life examples.
Data is a product, not a commodity. It is used by people, not computers, so it should be designed, not built. Data delivery should be available, informative, accurate, intuitive, and familiar.
A persona is not a person.
Even the best designers are susceptible to creating poor portfolios that fail to represent them. In this case, the hiring managers are the users, so designers need to create portfolios that are easy to scan, focus on telling a story, keep the right balance of text and visuals, and include the “non-fancy” stuff.
When around 1.3 billion people experience significant disabilities, standards are needed for more inclusive products. With WCAG's version 2.2, six new guidelines were released to improve digital experiences for users with vision, motor, and cognitive disabilities.
Tyler Sticka uses simple CSS and SVG animations to create a button with a rubber-like animation on hover.
Featured in The New Yorker, National Geographic, and The New York Times Magazine, Christoph Niemann's work ranges from ink illustrations to clever conceptual drawings. Here's a list of the ten rules he follows.