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In-page links, such as a Back to Top link or a Skip to Content link for keyboard users, can serve various purposes, but one of their most common uses is in a table of contents. A table of contents, usually found at the top of information-rich pages, presents a structured list of the content topics on that page, allowing users to click and navigate directly to their desired sections.
Epic Easy enables you to create your custom animation curve, spring, or bounce. If you're unfamiliar with custom animations, presets are also available. The tool includes export to CSS, SCSS, Objective-C, and Swift.
In 2012, Tobias van Schneider felt the need to collect and combine unique colors for his future projects. From that, ColorClaim was born. This page displays 120 gorgeous color pairs, mostly made of one main and one accent color.
Most companies will say that they care about users. But is that still true when some shady design pattern could boost business metrics? Infinite scrolls, video autoplay, data privacy breaches, hidden delete account controls, and other dark patterns are recent plagues that have infested the user experience.
Building a website in the 90s was undeniably different. The web design industry was nascent – if it existed at all. Standards and best practices were still years away and there were no sophisticated tools so designers had to adapt existing tools for this new medium.
You have an idea and put together a dirty prototype to test it. People love it, and you decide that the MVP can become a product. What can go wrong? You will end up with a completely inaccessible SaaS product, and the amount of work needed to go back and fix all the problems is so costly that it will never be a "business priority."
A deep dive into almost 40,000 enterprise websites uncovers how top brands lack digital accessibility and inclusive design. Discover key insights on web accessibility gaps and how to avoid them.
Find inspiration for naming things – be that HTML classes, CSS properties, or JavaScript functions – using these lists of useful words.
User stories, with their "As a [user], I want [action] so that [benefit]" format, may oversimplify complex needs and overlook the bigger picture in favor of a narrow solution-focused approach.
Framer has raised a $27M Series C funding round led by Meritech Capital. The company plans to further scale up its product and commercial teams with the new round, especially in Europe and the U.S. That means introducing features for larger sites, like localization, custom forms, and additional enterprise-level integrations.
Zapier has been moving to offer its customers more complex integrations and workflow automation. The company's new tool, Canvas, helps its users plan and diagram their business-critical processes. Canvas is powered by AI, allowing users to explain the problem they want to be solved and then have the service generate a process for them.
Meta is starting to roll out AI stickers across its apps. Users will soon be able to edit their images or even co-create them with friends on Instagram using the new AI editing tools, restyle, and backdrop. Meta is also launching beta versions of 28 AIs with unique interests and personalities. Some are played by cultural icons and influencers, including Snoop Dogg, Tom Brady, Kendall Jenner, and Naomi Osaka.
The car industry still needs to catch up in prototyping adoption. This article reinforces the required mindset, recommended tools, and the process for testing automotive interfaces.
A new study by Koivisto and Grassini compares human and AI creativity using the gold standard test of divergent thinking. Over 200 participants were tested against three AI chatbots - ChatGPT3, ChatGPT4, and Copy.Ai. The findings indicate that current AI surpasses average human creative production. However, highly creative humans can still compete by making surprising connections between concepts.
People from feminine countries usually undersell themselves because humbleness is a virtue while those from masculine countries might oversell themselves because of their competitive nature. This can have a significant impact on designer’s careers, promotions, opportunities, and generally how well they work with others.
Screen Studio makes your screen recordings look beautiful. The tool automatically offers innovative zoom capabilities, has high-quality effects, and counts with an intuitive and easy-to-use editing mode. Several branding and style customizations are also available.
Connect your iOS screenshots folder and let the magic happen. This AI-powered tool understands, organizes, and makes screenshots easily searchable.
Animated backgrounds are a fun way to make your content more engaging but they’re hard to make. This collection of free 4k looping animated backgrounds is a great starting point for your next project.
Shipping software to production, regardless of whether it delivers any value to its users, is the norm in most organizations. That reality makes it difficult for product teams to justify to their stakeholders that more time needs to be spent on discovery. Jeff Gothelf proposes a smart move, putting a key question in the center of each sprint. Once the focus changes from what needs to be built to what needs to be learned, discovery becomes a necessity.
Didem Yagci is the Plywood Picasso. Her work transforms layered plywood panels into mesmerizing wall sculptures that brighten any space. Known as the "Monarch of Hues" on Instagram, the artist's enchanting creations use gradients and fluid shapes to dive into a world of depth and dimension.
Focus Order is a Figma plugin by Microsoft’s Design team that helps designers create designs for keyboarding and screen reader users. The plugin now integrates with component libraries so that components can be annotated faster. Links to the code documentation are included.
Not paying attention to how things look can considerably affect the bottom line. Visual testing needs detailed specifications, thoughtful planning that includes static and dynamic modes, and methods for covering edge cases.
Hustle culture is about working long hours and pushing yourself to the limit as the path to success. It's not sustainable in practice. Being driven by curiosity, interest, and even some obsession can be an alternative that better fits the way designers operate.
You might have noticed that not every interactive element gets a cursor by default. You can quickly add that behavior to any element by using a few lines of CSS.
Photoshop for the Web is now available after being in beta for almost two years. Featuring Firefly-powered AI tools, its AI capabilities include generative expand, which lets users expand an image and fill it with content based on a prompt, and generative fill, which can add or remove objects while keeping the original context of an image.
Paint Cocreator is an AI-enhanced version of Microsoft Paint that allows users to create prompt-based art. Powered by DALL-E, the new AI functionality enables creatives to apply art styles and add layers to the initial composition. Paint Cocreator should be available to all Windows 11 users in a few weeks.
Figma has partnered with Google for Education to provide K-12 schools in Japan with access to Figma and FigJam through Chromebooks and Google Workspace for Education. The goal is to foster design skills and creativity among students, preparing them for future job opportunities in a digital world while also aligning with Japan's commitment to education access and equity.
Once we understand three key aspects of time management for creatives, it suddenly stops being such a challenging topic. First of all, we are creatives who feel like our work is never done. We also need uninterrupted blocks of time for work (and don’t get it). Finally, people often don’t fully understand the design process.
A color ramp, also known as a color scale, is a visual representation of how colors transition from light to dark smoothly and continuously. The steps required to create a color ramp are: start with your defined brand colors, adjust lightness at each color stop, adjust saturation as needed, check contrast ratios, repeat for all other colors, and aim for similar lightness and saturation for each stop as the other colors.
Accessible forms unlock new audiences and improve the user experience for all users. Equipping fields with autofill, investing in well-designed error messages, and tweaking date fields are minor adjustments that lead to more accessible forms.
A tool to generate free high-quality images and illustrations on demand powered by the world's most creative image generation AIs. Users can choose the desired style and edit the image after it’s generated.
Alpaca, an AI plugin for Photoshop, can generate images and convert sketches into detailed images. Artists can start with sketches and reference images to guide the composition of their artwork. This feature allows users to draw an image, import it, and then generate a detailed image from the sketch.
This landing page collection features screenshots and notes by the experts who designed it. The project focuses on conversion optimization and highlights the design decisions that drive more sales.
In the not-so-distant future, voice-activated AI chatbots will be able to understand diverse accents and languages, making technology more inclusive and universal. This evolution will be coupled with the capability to sense emotions from our voice's subtle cues, creating more empathetic digital assistants.
Neocities’ replication of old Google homepages allows users to experience the search engine from 1998, 2009, 2011, and 2013, when the major visual changes were introduced. The webpage accurately emulates how Google Search used to look back in the day, complete with the drop-down menu to choose the number of results to display per page and the “I’m feeling lucky” button.
Google states that web page usability and content quality are key factors that determine page ranking. Creating user-centered and well-structured content, focusing on findability, having a mobile-friendly UI, and having fast loading times are UX improvements with the most direct impact on SEO.
A gigantic minority of one billion people experience some form of disability and are often let down by design. Multiple aspects can improve their lives. Maybe you could add better color coding to your product. Your typography may lack legibility. Or do you need to genuinely explore options for allowing users to customize their purchases? No matter what the improvement is, the important thing is to start now and generate the momentum that triggers continuous inclusive design initiatives.
Strava users can now seamlessly synchronize their Nike Run Club (NRC) and Nike Training Club (NTC) activities with their Strava accounts. The new integration will make it easier for athletes to monitor their progress and achievements across platforms.
Textareas are great when it comes to accepting a large amount of text from the user. However, the problem with them is that they have a fixed height, which has a detrimental impact on accessibility and usability. Thankfully, an experimental CSS rule with a form-sizing property is coming that will allow the increase of the height of textareas automatically based on the amount of text the user enters.
Apple's former chief design officer Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are allegedly considering a partnership to build a hardware device powered by AI. It's unclear what kind of device it will be or if OpenAI or a third-party manufacturer will create it.
The Red Dot Award for Design Concepts celebrates the power of conceptualization, showcasing designs that embody creativity, collaboration, and impeccable execution. This year's edition features a clock that displays the time using Styrofoam grains resembling snow, an intelligent rotary stove, a design toolkit for saving the Earth designed for kids, and many other exciting projects.
Google is celebrating its 25th anniversary with the most fun and exciting facts about its offices and data centers across over 200 cities worldwide. The list includes Google's desert office, the company's sticky-note art gallery, and its first office on the moon (!).
Problems like reduced creativity and exploration can be solved by starting designs in lower fidelity. Rigid ruling can be solved by shifting the nature of the design system from “rule-based” to “principle-based.” A lack of context on when a component should be used and how can be solved by starting with basics and getting those right first.
The benefits designers get from a design system include a flexible tool that facilitates their focus on solving user problems, a useful set of constraints when starting new, nebulous work, freedom from designing the same things over and over again, and a higher likelihood of consistent execution of their designs. Engineers get a UI that's DRY, waste less time on specific one-off UI bugs, and spend more time building meaningful features and quality UI with less effort.
When choosing a font for responsive web interfaces, consider the platform needs, the languages that need to be supported, how the design system might grow, and how its needs might change. When it comes to font personality, evaluate font legibility and readability, how they look when set at a small size, the fonts’ numbers, and lean towards functionality instead of expression.
Effective color choices always consider what needs to be communicated and reinforced. Spectrum Art brings the latest color trends and briefly explains what they help achieve. It shows a full-page composition using the color palette for each color detail page.
This fantastic collection includes 1,490 free animated icons. Lordicon offers several customization options depending on the icon family and allows users to download them in multiple formats like GIF, Lottie, and MP4.
Rayon is a browser-based collaborative design tool for the architecture, engineering, and construction industries. The Paris-based startup wants to improve the design process by making it more collaborative and accessible to teams and stakeholders. The platform can also be used as a central object library repository compatible with the most popular image formats, PDF, and CAD documents (DWG, DXF).
Every task must have a purpose, and more importantly, an understanding of how it will evolve. The only thing stopping you from doing a better job is yourself. Don’t ask for permission but be proactive and ask for forgiveness if things go wrong. Encourage stakeholder's expertise and involvement and let them drive the initiative.
The tactile experience of flipping through a beautifully designed magazine remains unmatched. For graphic designers especially, print magazines offer a source of inspiration that's tangible and immersive and presents content in a completely different visual way to digital. This article features the best magazines for graphic design inspiration, including Eye Magazine, Communication Arts, Idea, Creative Review, Slanted, Typeone, and Wallpaper.