If I Was Starting My Career Today: Thoughts After 15 Years Spent In UX Design (Part 1) If I Was Starting My Career Today: Thoughts After 15 Years Spent In UX Design (Part 1) Andrii Zhdan 2024-08-02T11:00:00+00:00 2025-02-27T16:04:15+00:00 My design career began in 2008. The first book that I read on the topic of design was Photoshop Tips And Tricks by Scott Kelby, which was a book about a very…
Rethinking The Role Of Your UX Teams And Move Beyond Firefighting Rethinking The Role Of Your UX Teams And Move Beyond Firefighting Paul Boag 2024-07-29T18:00:00+00:00 2025-02-27T16:04:15+00:00 In my experience of building and supporting UX teams, most of them are significantly under-resourced. In fact, the term “team” can often be a stretch, with many user experience professionals finding themselves alone in their roles. Typically, there are way more projects that impact…
Getting To The Bottom Of Minimum WCAG-Conformant Interactive Element Size Getting To The Bottom Of Minimum WCAG-Conformant Interactive Element Size Eric Bailey 2024-07-19T13:00:00+00:00 2025-02-27T15:42:00+00:00 There are many rumors and misconceptions about conforming to WCAG criteria for the minimum sizing of interactive elements. I’d like to use this post to demystify what is needed for baseline compliance and to point out an approach for making successful and inclusive interactive experiences using…
Useful Customer Journey Maps (+ Figma & Miro Templates) Useful Customer Journey Maps (+ Figma & Miro Templates) Vitaly Friedman 2024-07-08T10:00:00+00:00 2025-02-27T16:04:15+00:00 User journey maps are a remarkably effective way to visualize the user’s experience for the entire team. Instead of pointing to documents scattered across remote fringes of Sharepoint, we bring key insights together — in one single place. Let’s explore a couple of helpful customer journey templates to…
How To Improve Your Microcopy: UX Writing Tips For Non-UX Writers How To Improve Your Microcopy: UX Writing Tips For Non-UX Writers Irina Silyanova 2024-06-28T10:00:00+00:00 2025-02-27T16:04:15+00:00 Throughout my UX writing career, I’ve held many different roles: a UX writer in a team of UX writers, a solo UX writer replacing someone who left, the first and only UX writer at a company, and even a teacher at a UX writing…
How To Make A Strong Case For Accessibility How To Make A Strong Case For Accessibility Vitaly Friedman 2024-06-26T12:00:00+00:00 2025-02-27T15:42:00+00:00 Getting support for accessibility efforts isn’t easy. There are many accessibility myths, wrong assumptions, and expectations that make accessibility look like a complex, expensive, and time-consuming project. Let’s fix that! Below are some practical techniques that have been working well for me to convince stakeholders to support and promote accessibility…
How To Hack Your Google Lighthouse Scores In 2024 How To Hack Your Google Lighthouse Scores In 2024 Salma Alam-Naylor 2024-06-11T18:00:00+00:00 2025-02-27T15:42:00+00:00 This article is sponsored by Sentry.io Google Lighthouse has been one of the most effective ways to gamify and promote web page performance among developers. Using Lighthouse, we can assess web pages based on overall performance, accessibility, SEO, and what Google considers “best practices”, all with the click…
Scaling Success: Key Insights And Practical Takeaways Scaling Success: Key Insights And Practical Takeaways Addy Osmani 2024-06-04T12:00:00+00:00 2025-02-27T15:42:00+00:00 Building successful web products at scale is a multifaceted challenge that demands a combination of technical expertise, strategic decision-making, and a growth-oriented mindset. In Success at Scale, I dive into case studies from some of the web’s most renowned products, uncovering the strategies and philosophies that propelled them to the forefront of…
The Forensics Of React Server Components (RSCs) The Forensics Of React Server Components (RSCs) Lazar Nikolov 2024-05-09T13:00:00+00:00 2025-02-27T15:42:00+00:00 This article is sponsored by Sentry.io In this article, we’re going to look deeply at React Server Components (RSCs). They are the latest innovation in React’s ecosystem, leveraging both server-side and client-side rendering as well as streaming HTML to deliver content as fast as possible. We will get really nerdy to get…
Conducting Accessibility Research In An Inaccessible Ecosystem Conducting Accessibility Research In An Inaccessible Ecosystem Michele Williams 2024-04-25T12:00:00+00:00 2025-02-27T15:42:00+00:00 Ensuring technology is accessible and inclusive relies heavily on receiving feedback directly from disabled users. You cannot rely solely on checklists, guidelines, and good-faith guesses to get things right. This is often hindered, however, by a lack of accessible prototypes available to use during testing. Rather than wait for the digital landscape…