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. […]