How A Designer’s 3-Year-Old Daughter Is Humanizing Google
Inspired by the way his daughter Anna Julia communicates, Hector Ouilhet is trying to make Google’s voice search more human.
Radar #141
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Best Practices for the UX of Navigation
Navigation is a make or break aspect of the user experience of a site. It is a way for users to find where they need to go, and navigation that is frustrating or unusable will lead to irritated users, high bounce rates and unfinished user flows. As with everything in UX, context and audience will […]
Web Design Trends 2016: How Cards Dominate Design
Practical as they are visually attractive, card interfaces are more than just a trend. With 2014 marking the first time mobile internet usage exceeded desktop, web design is now favoring the small screen as responsive design becomes mandatory. The result: simple interface styles like the new flat design, minimalism, and especially cards are more popular […]
Fabric: Twitter’s New App For Developers
Twitter has recently released a new app meant exclusively for developers, named Fabric. This app also happens to be the first one that Twitter has developed from scratch; other apps such as Vine and Periscope are basically acquisitions. Strictly speaking, Fabric is a collection of tools and resources meant for developers who wish to check […]
Moving from HTML Grid Systems to CSS Grid Systems
I think it was a few months ago where someone asked me if I had any pointers to help them transit from Bootstrap’s dom-littering .col classes to either Susy or Neat. It struck me that I haven’t talked about this even though I’ve been using Susy grids for so long! Anyway, this transition is a […]
The Core Principles of UI Design
The legal field is documented thoroughly—more thoroughly than UI design, that’s for sure. But real life can be rather surprising. There are many situations when the legal norms are contradicting each other or downright missing. Core principles exist precisely for such situations. These principles should help you make decisions when everything else is vague and […]
Dirty Tricks From The Dark Corners Of Front-End
You know how it works: you spend hours trying to find a workaround for a problem that you have encountered, just to realize that it doesn’t quite work in, you know, that browser. Finding little techniques and tricks to help you get to results faster can immensely improve your productivity, so you don’t have to […]
Hand Lettering for Responsive Web Design
Although it often appears simple, hand lettering can be a complex endeavour, even more so when applying it to responsive web design. With this in mind, I have put together a few considerations to help you decide when hand lettering is appropriate, and how to use it to its highest potential.
Cleaning Up a CSS Codebase
You have just been onboarded to an existing project to replace a departing developer. Or maybe you just opened that old project of yours from a few years ago. You are faced with dread and horror when looking at the code. You can do only one thing: Clean up this mess! Does that sound familiar […]
Accessible images for everyone
Photos have been at the center of some of the biggest moments on Twitter. As a core part of the Twitter experience, it’s important that images shared on our platform are accessible to everyone, including those who are visually impaired.