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How Optimized Videos Create a Better User Experience

When videos move at a snail’s pace, take an age to load, or stall throughout playback, they bore and frustrate your users—who don’t tend to come back. But what is video optimization, how can you optimize your videos, and, even more importantly, how can optimized videos create a better user experience? Let’s find out.

Should inclusive design be a UX concern? *

Designing for disabilities is gaining some traction but designing for inclusiveness of other aspects of our identities — our race/ethnicity, gender, skin color, age, size, sexual orientation — is still widely overlooked.

Ageism, Netflix’s mistake, board game UX, conditional logic in Figma

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Tropicalism: A Design Trend Coming Back in 2023

Tropicalism is a design trend that we are already seeing quite a bit of in 2023. You’ll know it thanks to bright colors, fun illustrations, and a breezy feel that makes you think of summer (and maybe a cold drink).

How To Build A Magazine Layout With CSS Grid Areas

Web development, especially what you can do with CSS, has become increasingly complex. With the added capabilities of CSS Grid, it is now possible to achieve layouts that look like they were laid out by hand. Let’s tackle a practical example of how to do something like that.