Quick Summary: Climate change and sustainability are increasing concerns for digital organizations, as well as individuals working in tech. In this article, we’ll explore some of the ways we can raise awareness and effect change within an organization to create a more positive environmental impact. ——————————————————————————————————————- Sustainability is rightly becoming more widely discussed within the […]
Those HTML Attributes You Never Use
Quick Summary: In this article, Louis Lazaris describes and demonstrates some interesting HTML attributes that you may or may not have heard of and perhaps find useful enough to personally use in one of your projects. In January, Madison Kanna asked her Twitter followers: What are the languages/tech you’re excited to learn or learn more deeply […]
A Recipe For A Good Design System
Quick Summary: Maintaining a design system is a lot of work. In this article, Atila Fassina shares his lessons learned and how a platform such as Backlight can help put together a series of tools to speed up your architecture setup. In theory, everybody has a relatively similar concept for what a “Design System” means, […]
How To Create An Information Architecture That Is Easy To Use
When creating the information architecture of a website, users are often overlooked in favor of internal politics and organizational thinking. On larger websites, each departmental silo wants its own section of the site, and they often fight to ensure their section is featured in the main navigation. Even small sites suffer from problems with information […]
Useful Accessibility And Usability Examples To Help Improve Your Designs
This article is ideal for your lunch break. It highlights five quite straightforward (dare I even say simple) graphic communication problems. I then expand on them, showing the problem, remedy, and what can be learned. It will give you an insight into accessibility, also the easily looked-over area of access structures, and usability showing that […]
The Future Of Design: Human-Powered Or AI-Driven?
In this article, Keima Kai provides a brief history of AI in web design, explores its current implications for creativity, and offers suggestions for how web designers can stay ahead of the curve. For years, reports have been warning of technology taking away jobs, particularly in fields like food preparation, truck driving, and warehouse operations. […]