Victor Loux Bookmarks

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The Most Important Rule in UX Design that Everyone Breaks

blog.prototypr.io/the-most-important-rule-in-ux-design-that-everyone-breaks-1c1cb188931
There is one principle of organization that every human should adhere to, particularly people who design products. Day after day, I see companies break this rule, and it is 100% of the time to their…

pirate/bookmark-archiver

github.com/pirate/bookmark-archiver
bookmark-archiver - 🗄 Save an archived copy of all websites starred using Pocket/Pinboard/Bookmarks. Outputs browseable html.

Usability for Nerds

en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Usability_for_Nerds
This Wikibook is intended for engineers, technicians, programmers and others who construct and develop technical things and who want their products to be user-friendly.

Never Use a Warning When you Mean Undo · An A List Apart Article

alistapart.com/article/neveruseawarning
Are our web apps as smart as they should be? By failing to account for habituation (the tendency, when presented with a string of repetitive tasks, to keep clicking OK), do our designs cause people to lose their work? Raskin’s simple, foolproof rule solves the problem.

How to work with SVG icons

fvsch.com/code/svg-icons/how-to/
A technical summary of how we use SVG icons for web pages

accdc/aria-announce

github.com/accdc/aria-announce
JavaScript Unobtrusive ARIA Announce Method for Screen Reader Support

Focusingly – Better focus styling

focusingly.net/
With Focusingly, focus styling adapts to match and fit individual elements.