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June 9 2021

The Art of Design Spec’ing

mahdif.com

Let’s learn more about design specs, how to create them, and how they smooth out the hand-off process between design and engineering.

Articles

Credit: Mahdi Farra 🍉

How to document accessibility as a UX designer

bootcamp.uxdesign.cc

When I first started working at Qualtrics two years ago, no one was really talking about software accessibility or inclusive design.

Accessibility

Credit: Medium

Documenting the almighty button

uxdesign.cc

Browsing through several collections available on Harvard Art Museum’s website triggered an interesting thought in my mind.

UX UI

Credit: UX Collective

All you need is 5 fonts

betterwebtype.com

There weren’t as many web fonts to pick from when I started my freelance career in the early 2000s, still, I was always overwhelmed by the number...

Typography

Credit: Matej Latin

Fixing contrast issues, on your own site and elsewhere

a11yproject.com

Insufficient text contrast is the most common accessibility issue on websites today. Fix them on your own site, or elsewhere, with a new extension.

Accessibility

Credit: Kilian Valkhof

 

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Relearning HTML, Apple Trends, CSS-in-JS Performance, Jason Yuan, UX Writing

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

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Front-end Principles, Custom Cursors, Cloud Kitchen, Parent Selector, .design

Monday, June 7, 2021

The 5 best design links, every day. Curated by a selection of great editors. Email not displaying properly? View browser version. Sidebar June 7 2021 The web we choose to build colinoakley.medium.com

Apple Design Awards, Web Vitals, RedBus Concept, Watch Typography, JavaScript Notes

Friday, June 4, 2021

The 5 best design links, every day. Curated by a selection of great editors. Email not displaying properly? View browser version. Sidebar June 4 2021 Apple Design Awards developer.apple.com Meet the

Modern Minimal, Bob Ross, Wingdings Font, Front-End Testing, Cognitive Bias

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

The 5 best design links, every day. Curated by a selection of great editors. Email not displaying properly? View browser version. Sidebar June 2 2021 A guide to the Modern Minimal UI style uxdesign.cc

Inclusive UX, Renderporn, Tulsa Race Massacre, Container Queries, Grid Lessons

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

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