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What is Cognitive Load? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t32ysGaBRTk #UIDesign #UXDesign #Design


App accessibility: Commonly overlooked accessibility practices for mobile apps
https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/app-accessibility-commonly-overlooked-accessibility-practices-for-mobile-apps-98d82907b15c #mobileDesign #mobileDev #a11y #UIDesign


"Visually pleasing designs use consistent type styles and spacing, create a visual hierarchy, and utilize an underlying grid structure." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/why-does-a-design-look-good-part2/ #UIDesign #WebDesign


Learn to Create Accessible Websites with the Principles of Universal Design
https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/learn-to-create-accessible-websites-with-the-principles-of-universal-design #UIDesign #WebDesign #UniversalDesign


Deceptive Design Hall of Shame: https://www.deceptive.design/hall-of-shame/all #UIDesign #DarkPatterns #darkpattern #webdesign #productmgmt


The Many Benefits of Annotating Your Wireframes
https://xd.adobe.com/ideas/process/wireframing/benefits-of-annotating-wireframes/
#webdesign #wireframes #uxd #ixd #uiDesign


The State Of Usability In 2023 — great info here! https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2023/01/usability-2023/ #usability #uxDesign #uiDesign


"To design accessible visuals, account for color contrast, don’t rely on color alone, make interactive elements easy to identify, provide useful alternative text for images, and test your visuals with real users." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/visual-treatments-accessibility/ #webdesign #a11y #visualdesign #UIDesign


Designing With Reduced Motion For Motion Sensitivities (2020): https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/09/design-reduced-motion-sensitivities/ #motion #webdesign #UIDesign #a11y


Useful Accessibility And Usability Examples To Help Improve Your Designs https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/12/useful-accessibility-usability-examples-help-improve-your-designs/ #UIDesign #webdesign #a11y #UXDesign


How type influences readability: https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/readability_and_accessibility/how_type_influences_readability #typography #legibility #readability #UIDesign


With web forms, for birthdate, a text input should be used for the best usability. A dropdown for the year is bad, but this is ridiculous! Sorry, but no one will be born in 2055 for another 32 years. Found multiple instances in the same painful process to sign up my son for a sport. #rant #UX #UXfail #UIDesign #UIFail #usability #forms 😖


Usability 2023 — many of the “Frustrations” and “Delighters” listed are very much related to accessibility: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2023/01/usability-2023/ #webdev #webdesign #ux #usability #a11y #UIDesign


Designing Better Links For The Web (Smashing Mag, Dec 2021) https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/12/designing-better-links-websites-emails-guideline/ #webdesign #UIDesign #links #usability #tips


Foundations: target sizes https://tetralogical.com/blog/2022/12/20/foundations-target-size/ #a11y #wcag #uiDesign #webdesign


Interesting and valuable! "10 types of cognitive bias to watch out for in UX research & design" https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/10-types-of-cognitive-bias-to-watch-out-for-in-ux-research-design-b9f0f5ef86c1 #uxDesign #uxResearch #UIDesign #usabilityTesting


You Don’t Need A UI Framework https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/05/you-dont-need-ui-framework/ #webdev #UIDesign #frameworks


YES 👉 "Premature error messages, aggressively styled fields, and unnecessarily disruptive system-status messages feel bad-mannered and increase cognitive load for users during otherwise simple tasks." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/hostile-error-messages/ #ux #usability #forms #uiDesign


What designers can learn from Apple’s new accessibility features https://uxdesign.cc/what-designers-can-learn-from-apples-new-accessibility-features-514b8f5bbd33 #design #UIDesign #a11y #apple


"Regardless of what accessibility conformance level you target, do not arbitrarily open links in a new window or tab. If you are required to do so anyway, inform users in visible text." https://adrianroselli.com/2020/02/link-targets-and-3-2-5.html via @aardrian #UIDesign #IXD #a11y #links #wcag #tips


First ask yourself, "Why are we hiding content?" Check out this great article, Inclusively Hidden, by @scottohara https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2017/04/14/inclusively-hidden.html #webdev #webdesign #uiDesign #a11y #accessibility


11 Best Free Wireframe Tools for UX Designers in 2022
https://careerfoundry.com/en/blog/ux-design/free-wireframing-tools/
#ux #uiDesign #tools


Does your UI have a sticky header/footer that obscures focused elements? You should fix it, and also for the upcoming WCAG 2.2 SC 2.4.12! https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/focus-not-obscured-minimum #a11y #uiDesign #wcag #wcag22


A definition of Inclusive Design and some examples: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/inclusive-design/ #design #UIDesign #inclusiveDesign


Wanted at Deque Systems: Senior UX Designer. Based anywhere in the U.S.! Contact me for referral. https://www.deque.com/careers/senior-ux-designer/ #a11y #jobs #ux #uxDesign #UIDesign #remoteUS


Reasonable Colors is an open-source colour system for making accessible colour palettes.

It uses an intuitive system of shades to help you select colours which meet the appropriate WCAG contrast rating, even if you're mixing and matching base colours:

https://reasonable.work/colors/

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