Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “design”

Meet Alva

Create living prototypes with code components. Design with the same components your engineers are using for production.

When fonts fall

A deep-dive into font fallback

People expect technology to suck – kbps

kilobitspersecond.com/2020/09/22/people-expect-technology-to-suck/

A few jobs ago, I was helping someone with a small tech issue, standing over their shoulder at their computer. The screen was unbelievably dark; I’m not exaggerating when I say it looked to be near 0% brightness. For all I knew, this person had some vision sensitivity or just a basic personal preference that […]

Design Thinking is a Rebrand for White Supremacy | by Darin Buzon | Medium

medium.com/@dabuzon/design-thinking-is-a-rebrand-for-white-supremacy-b3d31aa55831

Essay on the relationships between Design Thinking, Modernism, and white supremacy.

Communicating with Interactive Articles

distill.pub/2020/communicating-with-interactive-articles/

Disrespectful Design—Users aren’t stupid or lazy – Somehow Manage

somehowmanage.com/2020/09/13/disrespectful-design-users-arent-stupid-or-lazy/

It's a common narrative in tech to design products with the assumption that users are stupid and lazy. I think that is both disrespectful and wrong. The idea is rooted in a lot of research around product usability, but it has been bastardized. Thing of it as a perversion of the Don't Make Me Think…

How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations | Chartable

blog.datawrapper.de/beautifulcolors/

Choosing good colors for your charts is hard. This article tries to make it easier.

Geri Reid - Forms best practice

gerireid.com/forms.html

Inclusive Design Principles

inclusivedesignprinciples.org/

The UX of LEGO Interface Panels – George Cave

designedbycave.co.uk/2020/LEGO-Interface-UX/

Textures.js

riccardoscalco.it/textures/

A JavaScript Library for creating SVG patterns

The Good Service Scale

good.services/the-good-services-scale

Why Figma Wins - kwokchain

kwokchain.com/2020/06/19/why-figma-wins/

Artvee

artvee.com/

Presentation Rules – Jilles.net

jilles.net/perma/2020/06/05/presentation-rules.html

Relate - Design and develop at the same time

relate.app/

Relate is the first interface design tool that empowers design and development teams to collaborate in the creation of digital products - visually and straightforwardly

Mobile First — A Book Apart

mobile-first.abookapart.com/

Read Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski online. Data-driven strategies and battle tested techniques to help make you a master of mobile—and improve your non-mobile design, too!