Picture this: you’re flipping through a photo album. Every snapshot captures a moment frozen in time. It’s unchanging and unmoving. It just exists, as is, in perpetuity. That’s similar to the experience a static website offers. It’s a no-fuss, what-you-see-is-what-you-get site that can be updated, of course, but its content will largely stay the same… Continue reading What is a Static Website?
Housing, It’s a Human Right (Part 2)
A 3-Part Series on the digital accessibility of the housing process experienced by people with disabilities. In this 3-part series, we will look at the challenges and rewards of the entire experience surrounding the process of acquiring housing for people who live with a disability. We will look at: Buying an existing home Leasing an… Continue reading Housing, It’s a Human Right (Part 2)
How to leverage storytelling to engage audiences with empathy quickly
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CAPTCHA is a drag and should be dropped — WCAG 2.2 in the wild
Erin Beel · Follow Published in UX Collective · 8 min read · Oct 18 — 1 Listen Share Ever learnt something and then immediately start seeing it everywhere? Sometimes it’s the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. But when it’s the new Accessibility criteria (or tropes like the colour grading of Michael Bay movies) — it’s more like… Continue reading CAPTCHA is a drag and should be dropped — WCAG 2.2 in the wild
8 Best Elementor WordPress Plugins for 2024
By focusing on these core features when choosing an Elementor plugin, you’ll be able to get the most out of your Elementor WordPress plugins. 8 Best Elementor WordPress Plugins 2024 Here are the top 8 Elementor plugins that offer innovative features and will enhance your page building capabilities beyond the standard Elementor page builder. 1.… Continue reading 8 Best Elementor WordPress Plugins for 2024
Where does the checkerboard transparency grid come from?
Solar cells, photoshop and cuttlefish Continue reading on UX Collective »
Tyranny of consistency, design manager’s toolkit, when to use dialog boxes
Fabricio Teixeira · Follow Published in UX Collective · 3 min read · 9 hours ago — 3 Listen Share “Current AI systems seek to mitigate AI mistakes by requiring human oversight, by keeping the human in the loop and relying on them to detect and fix the AI output if needed. If an AI,… Continue reading Tyranny of consistency, design manager’s toolkit, when to use dialog boxes
20 Best Software Engineer Resume Templates for 2024
Find and land your dream software engineering role with a solid job search strategy. The key component is to create a resume and cover letter that gets you callbacks. We’ll be looking at some resume templates that will assist you with this mission. Software Engineer CV Resume Template, a premium template from Envato Elements Pre-built… Continue reading 20 Best Software Engineer Resume Templates for 2024
From Image Adjustments to AI: Photoshop Through the Years
Tech By Max Walton 2 days ago Remember when Merriam-Webster added Photoshop to the dictionary back in 2008? Want to learn how AI is changing design forever? Join us as we delve into the history of Photoshop, from its early beginnings right through to the dawn of artificial intelligence. Photoshop is nothing short of a… Continue reading From Image Adjustments to AI: Photoshop Through the Years
How to Set Up WordPress Error Logs In Your WP-Config File
This sounds very techy, but it’s manageable with this guide. By switching on error logs, you’ll be able to easily find the bugs that are in your WordPress website. Ready to troubleshoot like a pro? Let’s dive into the world of WordPress error logs. Understanding WordPress Error Logs This is a basic text display of… Continue reading How to Set Up WordPress Error Logs In Your WP-Config File
How to Set Up WordPress Error Logs In Your WP-Config File
This sounds very techy, but it’s manageable with this guide. By switching on error logs, you’ll be able to easily find the bugs that are in your WordPress website. Ready to troubleshoot like a pro? Let’s dive into the world of WordPress error logs. Understanding WordPress Error Logs This is a basic text display of… Continue reading How to Set Up WordPress Error Logs In Your WP-Config File
Designing safe and trustworthy AI systems
Designing for safe and trustworthy AI Why human oversight to make up for AI errors doesn’t work and what we can do instead Illustration created by Cara Storath in Midjourney As much as AI is powerful, in some cases it can be misleading or wrong. A realization that came too late to a New York lawyer,… Continue reading Designing safe and trustworthy AI systems
Create growth experiments to persuade teams to invest in user-requested features
How to persuade teams to invest in new features requested by users Kai Wong · Follow Published in UX Collective · 7 min read · 10 hours ago — Share Art by midjourney I learned to appreciate Growth Experiments when I convinced my team to finally build a new feature users constantly requested. In an… Continue reading Create growth experiments to persuade teams to invest in user-requested features
What is Video Production? Meaning, Phases, & Types
We use the phrase ‘video production’ a lot but what is video production, exactly? It could include a bunch of things, like entertainment, marketing, education and more. There are specific steps too, to get from an idea to a finished film. Let’s take a look at the meaning of video production. What is Video Production?… Continue reading What is Video Production? Meaning, Phases, & Types
Enhancing Accessibility with AI and ML
There has been a lot of buzz recently about Artificial Intelligence, with some people speculating that we are approaching the long-awaited AI revolution. This hype has been chiefly generated by recent advanced algorithms powering ChatGPT and other language-related models. While I believe that these models are still a far cry from general AI (AI which… Continue reading Enhancing Accessibility with AI and ML
Best AI Tips and Tricks for Creatives
Are you starting to use AI tools? Wondering how to use reference photos in Midjourney and more? Our Tuts+ instructors have you covered. They’ll share their best tips on working with the new AI tools. Watch the AI Tips and Tricks for Creatives Video Jump to content in this section: Hi everyone! My name is… Continue reading Best AI Tips and Tricks for Creatives
Designing a colour system
Building multi-brand colour systems that support light and dark modes with minimum effort. It is all about organizing, naming and choosing the right colour values for the system to work. I would like to share my view on the issue and tell about the methods I choose to make the system. Made with design tokens Design tokens are… Continue reading Designing a colour system
Immortal code in “The Picture of Dorian Gray” of software aging
Adrian Nenu 😺 · Follow Published in UX Collective · 8 min read · 3 days ago — 1 Share As the only novel written by Irish author Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray illustrates the unavoidable corrupting influence that vanity and hedonism have in the context of delaying mortality and holding on to… Continue reading Immortal code in “The Picture of Dorian Gray” of software aging
Largest Contentful Paint: What It Is and How To Optimize It
In this guide, I’ll explain how to optimize Largest Contentful Paint using HTML and CSS. I’ll explain what LCP is, then before going into the details, I’ll quickly recap the most important things you need to know about LCP. So, What is Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)? Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of the three… Continue reading Largest Contentful Paint: What It Is and How To Optimize It
How to Use PowerPoint for Project Management: Detailed Guide
If you manage projects, you know the value of strong project management. Project management is the art and science of steering work from start to finish efficiently. You can use project management PowerPoint slides to guide the process. Let’s learn to use PowerPoint as a form of project management software in this tutorial. With project… Continue reading How to Use PowerPoint for Project Management: Detailed Guide
Give Your Site Some Focus! Tips for Designing Useful and Usable Focus Indicators
What Are Focus Indicators? Have you ever noticed the blue outlines that sometimes show up around buttons or form fields? What about when you click on a menu item? Have you ever tried to make those outlines disappear? Here’s a hint: by default, browsers use the :focus css pseudo class to give outlines to form… Continue reading Give Your Site Some Focus! Tips for Designing Useful and Usable Focus Indicators
The usability problem with prompt-driven AI
As the GenAI hype dust settles — it’s time to start thinking about usability and the opportunity it presents to address declining engagement and retention. Source: Pexels GenAI represents a new paradigm in User Interface Design and a radical shift from Command-Based Interaction Models and Graphical User Interfaces which have dominated the last 50 years of computing.… Continue reading The usability problem with prompt-driven AI
Hey Siri: call an ambulance
How health-centered design can save lives across the world. Michalina Bidzinska · Follow Published in UX Collective · 8 min read · 2 hours ago — Listen Share Photo by JOSHUA COLEMAN Immersed in daily health discussions, thanks to my mother, grandmother, and aunt, who were nurses, I once thought medicine was not for me.… Continue reading Hey Siri: call an ambulance
How to Use AI Text to Vector in Illustrator
In today’s Illustrator tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Illustrator’s text-to-vector generator. We will discover the ease of creating four editable AI graphics: a scene, icon, pattern, and subject, based on simple text prompts. It’s mind-blowing. Let’s go! What Is Illustrator’s Text-to-Vector Generator? Adobe Illustrator has a new and innovative tool that allows designers to… Continue reading How to Use AI Text to Vector in Illustrator