How to Make Your Website Accessible to People Who Use a Screen Magnifier

Do’s and don’ts.

Voice, Tone & Content Guides

Guidelines from some of the web’s most respected content teams.

The changing culture of web design

How designing for the web has changed over the past 20 years.

The Most Efficient Way to Use Icons If You’re A Designer or Developer

The how and the why.

Looper 2.0 sketch plugin

A new way to build beautiful patterns and illustrations.

How To Give Helpful Product Design Feedback

What we owe our colleagues.

Accessibility according to actual people with disabilities

The hardest things about browsing the web.

Responsive Design in Sketch - Part 1

What you can do with the group resizing feature.

coolHue

Handpicked gradient hues and swatches.

Google Introduces Spectral, a New Web Font

A good choice for long, distraction free reads on screens.

Video: Mobile in The Future

“Natural user interfaces are the new bar.”

7 Questions About User-Research Panels

What to consider for a database of potential research participants.

12 Super Creative QR Code Designs

Chinese businesses jazz up their WeChat QR codes.

“Just because people make fancy websites now doesn’t mean you can’t make plain old websites anymore. Plain old websites are pretty great.”

Don’t Use Split Buttons for Navigation Menus

Why they don’t work and what to use instead.

Kill sticky headers

“I want to kill sticky headers. So I made this bookmarklet.”

ImageOptim plugin for Sketch app

Automatically compresses images exported from Sketch.

Stealing Your Way to Original Designs

The 3 steps for apprentices: imitate, remix, invent.

How to enhance mobile interactions with sound design

“Sounds can have a dramatic effect on how people feel about your product.”

Inline validation is problematic

“Designing the perfect inline form validation experience is nigh on impossible.”

The Best Way to Export an SVG from Sketch

And what you should know before using ‘Copy SVG Code’.

Design systems don’t start with components

Good design starts with creative direction.

Our Favorite Typefaces of 2016

A list not about what is hot, but what is good.

Why Mobile Menus Belong at the Bottom of the Screen

Increase engagement, put a menu within thumb’s reach.

The 1 UX Mistake We Nearly All Make

“Great UX design focuses on the users you want, not the users you have.”

“UX doesn’t end at the edges of the screen nor the edges of your product, its the entire experience people have with your business.”

Adopting Design Systems

A playbook for working with product teams and managers.

“I see ‘Agile’ being used as an excuse for no strategy, no plan. Just do lots of crap quickly. ‘Fail fast! It’s Agile!’ Uh, no thank you.”

Designing Adaptive Icons

Android’s new app icon format explained.

URLs are UI

Why you should also care about your URLs.

Abstract

Collaboration platform for designers, a version-controlled 
hub for design files.

Cargo

Web publishing tools to service the design and creative communities.

Design for offline

The next evolutionary step in good UX design.

Abstract is Git for Designers we’ve all been waiting for!

How your typical workflow will look like.

“So often when people thank me for helping, the truth is I listened and they did everything themselves.”

Design Resources

Curated resources for working in and learning about design.

PSD to Sketch file converter

Convert your Photoshop design to a Sketch file.

The Design Sprint hammer

What design sprints are good for, and where they fall down.

Making Good Decisions as a Product Manager

Why your goal shouldn’t be to always make the right decision.

Designing interactive experiences

The ‘what, when and how’ of interactive prototyping.

“They say a good craftsman never blames their tools, but a good toolmaker never blames their user.”

“2005: I’m a web designer. 2009: I’m a UI designer. 2011: I’m a UX designer. 2014: I’m a product designer. 2021: I’m an experience sommelier.”

Updated Empathy Map Canvas

What’s new in the tool for design teams to understand other people better.

Contrast

A Mac app for quick access to WCAG color contrast ratios.

Apple previews new emoji coming later this year

More ways for users to express themselves.

Sketch Material

A sketch plugin to generate complex material components.

Human-Centered Machine Learning

Google’s way to design Machine Learning-driven products.

Disabled buttons suck

“Disabled buttons are gruesome things that will ruin your users’ day.”

Unlocking true collaboration around design

Meet Kactus, an open source version control tool for designers.

Flow

A typeface built for wireframing to create abstracted placeholder content.

Gifmock

Easily create high-quality GIFs from your mockups.

OnPage.org becomes Ryte.com

Monitoring, analysis and optimization of digital assets.

10 things they didn’t tell you about design management

The reality is often very different to the perception.

“As a content strategist, all I want is for companies to put their customer in the center of everything. Better business will follow.”

savee

Moodboards and image collections for your inspiration.

Pure UI Control

The design of the control states.

The Future of Design (and how to prepare for it)

What to expect next in the design world.

pik

A new lossy image format for the internet.

The vital role of user research in design

“Investing in user research is going to be paramount to your success.”

Feedback for Teams

How to give and receive feedback.

Information Architecture Lenses

How different perspectives can help your IA practice.

A Rather Comprehensive Collection of Design Podcasts

Discover the right podcast for you.

Figma Wants Designers to Collaborate Google-Docs Style

What the startup makes better than its competitors.

Grabient

Gradient generator with CSS and Sketch exports.

Is your site as mobile friendly as you think?

Where things can go wrong with a responsive website.

Chain

A plugin to create dynamic color relations in Sketch.

Effective UI Texts: Words to Avoid in Writing

How to make your UI texts easy to understand.

Are Notifications A Dark Pattern?

‘Pseudo-notifications’ and the future for notifications as a design pattern.

How Many Users Resize Their Browser?

“2-3% of users resize their browser, and you should care.”

Smartphone vs Tablet Orientation: Who’s Using What?

“Landscape usage continues to grow as tablet size increases.”

“A lot of architectural and user interface design wisdom can be boiled down to a simple rule: Put related things in the same spot.”

Pattern Variations

How a design system’s components can be made more flexible.

Freehand

An entirely new way to creatively collaborate in InVision.

Developing for iPhone Pro

What that new form factor could mean for the UI.

iPhone Pro′s edge-to-edge screen and what it could mean for the UI

Much more UI will fit in the new form factor.

FontDrop

Pick a font from an online catalog and install it with a single click.

Rethinking User Interface Design for the TV Platform

Televisions are not like tablets and phones.

Fiber

An interactive Framer UI Kit, a prototype with customizable components.

DesignBetter.Co

Best practices, stories, and insights from the world’s top design leaders.

Escaping the Build Trap by Melissa Perri

Start talking about what you’ve learned more than what you’ve built.

Coherent, Not Consistent

“Consistency in UI Design is overvalued.”

Fontstore

Font subscription service for designers.

Personas vs. Jobs-to-Be-Done

Core jobs-to-be-done information can be integrated into personas.

The average web page is 3MB. How much should we care?

It’s all about user-perceived performance.

Wick

Flash-inspired toolkit for creating interactive things for the modern web.

Foundations of Interaction Design

What it means to become a UX or interaction designer.

Principles for Mobile Design

A foundation to make better design decisions.

Designer’s Guide to Flexbox and Grid

What’s possible in the new era of layout on the web.

Sticky Note Fatigue and the Fog of Knowledge

“You can often learn more from a bad first prototype than from sticky note exercises.”

User Interface Design: 10 Principles Learned from Painful Mistakes

Let’s give users the experience they deserve.

Thoughts on Conversational UIs

It’s an exciting, yet scary, place to be.

Hologram

WebVR creation tool to build virtual reality experiences.

Designers Tooling Around: Figma

Real-time collaboration in the browser.

Kactus

Design version control based on GitHub.

Launchy

Accessible modal window that is easy to use and implement.

Merge duplicate symbols

Sketch plugin to merge symbols with the same name.

Integrating Animation into a Design System

How to transition a few odd animations to a cohesive system.

How to Write a Creative Brief

“Creative briefs are often neither creative nor brief.”

Stopwords in the user interface

Words that usually signal problems with the user interface.

Sketch for Designrs

A growing collection of the best Sketch resources.