The Myths of Color Contrast Accessibility
uxmovement.com/buttons/the-myths-of-color-contrast-accessibility/There's a growing demand for designers to make their interfaces accessible to all users. It's important to accommodate users with disabilities...
The Obvious UI is Often the Best UI - Google Design - Medium
medium.com/google-design/the-obvious-ui-is-often-the-best-ui-7a25597d79fdVoltaire said, “le sens commun est fort rare”—common sense is very rare. Perhaps to realize that a certain decision is common sense, one has to have enough life experience to know the right path to…
UX Frameworks – Make sense of mess and get that spark, faster.
uxframeworks.design/A resource to find and share frameworks for design research, synthesis, and ideation.
Unexpected accessibility tips – Chris Cid ∣ CJCid
cjcid.com/articles/unexpected-a11y-tips/A list of 9 unexpected tips for testing digital accessibility and inclusive design
Where to put buttons on forms by Adam Silver, designer based in London, UK.
adamsilver.io/articles/where-to-put-buttons-in-forms/Button placement can make or break a form. Find out the best place to put them in this article.
The Perfect User — Real Life
reallifemag.com/the-perfect-user/Digital wellness movements insist there is a single way to “stay human”
The Thumb Zone: Designing For Mobile Users — Smashing Magazine
smashingmagazine.com/2016/09/the-thumb-zone-designing-for-mobile-users/If there is one thing that will stand the test of time, it’s thumb placement on mobile devices. This makes consideration of the "thumb zone", a term coined in Steven Hoober’s research, an important factor in the design and development of mobile interfaces.
4 Rules for Intuitive UX – Learn UI Design
learnui.design/blog/4-rules-intuitive-ux.htmlObey the Law of Locality · ABD: Anything But Dropdowns · Pass the Squint Test · Teach by example
Form design: from zero to hero all in one blog post by Adam Silver, designer based in London, UK.
adamsilver.io/articles/form-design-from-zero-to-hero-all-in-one-blog-post/90% of the problems found in forms solved in a few hundred precious words.
ReallyGoodUX
reallygoodux.io/Screenshots and examples of great UX from real mobile and web products. Discover the best UX examples—including onboarding tours and walkthroughs, new feature and rebrand announcements, UX copywriting, signup flows and more. Brought to you by Appcues.
Five Models for Making Sense of Complex Systems – Christina Wodtke – Medium
medium.com/@cwodtke/five-models-for-making-sense-of-complex-systems-134be897b6b3In one of the classes I teach at CCA, students were confused by mental models, conceptual models, concept maps, etc. I ended up drawing a taxonomy for models on the whiteboard, and it may help…