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Applying the four principles of accessibility
Here’s how I interpret the top-level guidance in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
- Tiny Lesson
Three questions to ask a client before asking them for feedback
Feedback is a gift, especially when it’s from a busy client team, but are we making it as easy as possible for them to give us the right gift?
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Is the planet the missing member of your project team?
Five ideas to design with the environment in mind
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Coding prototypes
Write what you need to test a hypothesis. Then throw that code away.
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The intersectionality of web performance
Business, sustainability, and inclusivity.
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The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
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Sage single view
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Sage new concepts for product adoption
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Neon
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Dashboards: a design discussion
Debating the pros and cons of dashboards. What are they good for and what are the dangers?
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SofaConf 2020 talks are now live
The captioned videos and Q&As from SofaConf 2020 are now live to watch and share.
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Tiny lesson: the question protocol
The biggest effect you can have when designing an online form is to ask the right questions, and only the right questions. In this video, Richard shows how the question protocol can help you do just that.
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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of A/B Testing
Like many designers, I have a complicated relationship with A/B testing. In this article I’m going to explore some of the pros and cons of this approach.
Utopia
Why do I like fluid responsive typography? Let me count the ways…
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How to move fast without breaking things
Over the last few years, I’ve worked on various product teams at different levels of velocity, but I’ve noticed that moving quickly is not the same as moving effectively.
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Training a well-known Engineering Brand
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Tiny Lesson: Sketching, the timeless design tool
Katie shares a tiny lesson on a foolproof, simple, design tool.
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Are you designing a product or a service?
Moving beyond products to designing end-to-end services that work front-to-back.
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What is UX writing and why does it matter
Good content is one of the most fundamental elements of good design. Here’s why everyone’s talking about UX writing
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Give your information architecture a three-point checkup
How do you know your site structure is needing attention before it becomes really broken? Here are three tell-tale signs to look for and some ways to avoid the problem in the first place.
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Five tips for designing successful business tools
A guide for designing successful business tools
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Performance is a UX problem
When front-end development is undervalued, performance suffers. And when performance suffers, users pay the price.
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Virgin Holidays Design Culture
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Attraction Tickets Direct Design Sprint
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The Relationship Between Service Design and UX Design - Part 2
As Service Design becomes more digitally focused and UX projects become more and more service oriented, a shared space between the disciplines emerges. This post digs into this shared space by exploring the processes and methodologies that UX and Service Designers use in their day to day work.
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The Relationship Between Service Design and UX Design - Part 1
With the rise of Digital Services, the boundaries between the disciplines of Service Design and UX Design–and the role of the designer–are becoming increasingly blurred.
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Brighton & Hove City Council Design System
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Now, Next, Future: Multi-Modal Product Management
When large organisations attempt to transform themselves, they try to do it wholesale. This often leads to significant push-back, with the more risk-averse departments slowing or derailing the process entirely. Here's how a multi-modal approach can help.
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A simple approach to improving form design
Have you ever started filling out an form online, only to abandon the process halfway through? If so you wouldn’t be alone. This post explains a simple technique for getting more people to complete your forms and provide the information you require.
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Sound aesthetics
The aesthetics of everyday objects can be a tricky one to get right, particularly when those objects have technical specifications that impact their overall design.
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Smart move?
For anyone with an eye on current activity in the technology world, it will come as no surprise that the legendary Nokia 3310 'feature' phone has been relaunched by Finnish tech company HMD.
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On web typography
Typography - it’s at the heart of the web experience but with so many different options available it’s sometimes hard to know where to start when designing. Font stacking, embedding or web fonts? And what’s more important, brand or user experience? And what does this all mean for the designer who just wants to try and make type look great across as many devices as possible without losing their mind?
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In Defence of the Hamburger Menu
The hamburger menu has gone from handy UI element to social pariah. In this article Andy Budd discusses why some of the criticism may be premature and ill-informed.
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Clearleft on new BBC Roster
Following a three-month tender process, we are delighted to announce that we have won a place on the BBC’s coveted Digital Design roster, beating over 200 other agencies.