Struggling to create a PNG logo for your WordPress site? Not sure how to upload your PNG logo to WordPress? You can easily create a logo in the popular design software Adobe Illustrator and Canva. Creating and adding a logo may seem difficult, but it’s much easier than you think. This step-by-step guide will break… Continue reading How to Create and Upload a PNG Logo in WordPress
What does “rigorous” research really mean?
I’m writing this at home in my fourth-story apartment. When I do, I’m trusting that my building isn’t going to collapse on me. Continue reading on UX Collective »
Your intuition could be your design hypothesis
The human mind is a mystery machine. It fires and wires in ways that are still enigmatic to those who study it. And among its many complex and fascinating processes, intuition is behind quite an opaque veil — with its purpose largely obscure. As product designers, we strive to be methodical — gather the data,… Continue reading Your intuition could be your design hypothesis
How To Set Up A WordPress Development Environment
Do you need to set up a WordPress development environment? Are you unsure of where to even begin? Learn how in this tutorial! Setting up a proper space for building or adjusting your WordPress site can be crucial to avoid mishaps. This article will guide you through the steps to establish local and remote WordPress… Continue reading How To Set Up A WordPress Development Environment
Validating Email Addresses With Emailvalidation.io
In an era in which SMS and other text messaging technologies have become the dominant means of communication for individuals, email continues to hold a pivotal position for businesses in today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape. It serves as the primary channel of interaction between businesses, their customers, and other organizations. As a developer, you are… Continue reading Validating Email Addresses With Emailvalidation.io
Exciting New Tools for Designers, July 2023
In this month’s edition, you’ll find new ways of using AI, some excellent new services for streamlining your work, plus some great new UI kits. Enjoy! Cosmos Cosmos is a brand-new, beautifully realized Pinterest alternative for creatives. You can use it to create visual notes, record design inspiration, and curate your visual world via plugins on the… Continue reading Exciting New Tools for Designers, July 2023
How To Ensure Your WordPress Website is ADA Compliant
Are you struggling to ensure that your WordPress website is accessible to all? Are you unsure how to make your WordPress website ADA compliant? Making your site ADA compliant is important for all WordPress website owners. ADA compliance is an essential aspect of web design and development that helps make your site more usable and… Continue reading How To Ensure Your WordPress Website is ADA Compliant
How To Use The WordPress get_posts() Function
This article will guide you through how to use the powerful yet underused get_posts() function, turning you into an ace at retrieving tailored sets of posts based on any criteria you desire. Struggling to fetch specific content from your WordPress database? Need help using the WordPress get_posts() function? The WordPress get posts function can help… Continue reading How To Use The WordPress get_posts() Function
What Your Organization Needs to Navigate Canada Digital Accessibility Laws
A comprehensive guide to understanding digital accessibility requirements in Canada Digital accessibility is an integral aspect of equality and inclusivity, providing the same opportunity for all in the modern, digital world. In recognition of this, Canadian federal and provincial governments have implemented various legislative acts to ensure that individuals with disabilities have digital access without… Continue reading What Your Organization Needs to Navigate Canada Digital Accessibility Laws
How to Insert an Image in Photoshop
Adding an image to a project in Adobe Photoshop is an important step, but luckily it’s also an easy one! Whether you’re creating a web graphic, a poster, or a logo, you’re going to be bringing JPGs and PNGs into your document. In this tutorial, we will cover how to insert images in Photoshop. What… Continue reading How to Insert an Image in Photoshop
Designing for AI: beyond the chatbot
Guidelines and strategies for meaningfully leveraging AI in your applications With the recent advancements in AI, we as designers, builders, and creators, face big questions about the future of applications and how people will interact with digital experiences. Generative AI has unleashed huge possibilities with what we can do with AI. People are now using… Continue reading Designing for AI: beyond the chatbot
Creating magic with logical thinking
We are constantly faced with the challenge of solving complex problems in creative ways. While it may seem like magic and logic are opposing forces, they can often work together in design, where creative thinking and strategic actions can create truly transformative and magical experiences. Magic and creativity are often used interchangeably because they involve… Continue reading Creating magic with logical thinking
Optimizing Code With ChatGPT
Anyone who has been writing code for a while knows how important it is to write code that is optimized. I am sure you have encountered situations where you wrote a script that was taking a long time to execute and wanted to optimize it so that it ran faster. Optimization doesn’t always have to… Continue reading Optimizing Code With ChatGPT
Words: the new data commodity
The AI and LLM industry is changing and developing rapidly. How will the industry move forward, become regulated and adjust to this new reality of words as a commodity? We’re starting a new chapter of data commodification through access to and the commodification of words. In a yet unregulated space, product teams need to self-regulate… Continue reading Words: the new data commodity
A few accessibility and feature misses with the Threads launch
Camryn Manker · Follow Published in UX Collective · 6 min read · 20 hours ago — 5 Share Source: Meta Note: This was written 7/6/23, the day of Threads’ launch. Any new updates or changes to the app may not yet be reflected in the article. Recently, Twitter announced a new system that limits… Continue reading A few accessibility and feature misses with the Threads launch
WWDC 2023 Accessibility Goodies for Developers
This year, Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) was a big deal! Among the many announcements this year, Apple introduced the new Apple Vision Pro headset which has arguably and understandably stolen the show this year. Although Vision Pro may be the big talk of the town post-WWDC, there was also a myriad of exciting… Continue reading WWDC 2023 Accessibility Goodies for Developers
Consumer Duty Implies Digital Accessibility: Are you ready for the deadline?
On July 31, 2023, the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) new Consumer Duty policy comes into force in the United Kingdom (UK). This sets higher and clearer standards of consumer protection across financial services and requires firms to put their customers’ needs first. It applies to all firms in the distribution chain for products and services… Continue reading Consumer Duty Implies Digital Accessibility: Are you ready for the deadline?
From Beethoven to Bach: how Apple’s new app makes classical music discovery a breeze
Discovering and enjoying classical music made easy with Apple’s dedicated app, Apple Music Classical Generated by the author using Adobe Firefly There’s a problem when it comes to searching and exploring classical music on music streaming services. Apple Music is not different, and Apple tried to solve this problem by launching a separate app! In this… Continue reading From Beethoven to Bach: how Apple’s new app makes classical music discovery a breeze
Real rebels risk disapproval
Fake rebels just stay on the safe side and “critique”. The irony and sarcasm of the last few decades just doesn’t carry any longer — it’s… Continue reading on UX Collective »
AI’s black swans: Unforeseen consequences looming
Capitalizing our insecurities AI is calling out our imperfections I uploaded my portrait into this tool, and it revealed flaws in my face while recommending products that I can buy to fix it. Source: Qoves AI-powered facial analysis Qoves is a facial analysis tool powered by AI that is used to detect the superficial flaws… Continue reading AI’s black swans: Unforeseen consequences looming
15 UI Kits for Designing Seamless SaaS Interfaces in Figma
* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} Staff Pick 1. Hello UI Kit Provides over 160 unique screens and 700+ vectored custom UI elements designed for iOS app developers and designers. 2. Lando UI Kit A large UI kit for website design with 95+ cards in 13 categories, easily customizable. 3. Portland UI Kit… Continue reading 15 UI Kits for Designing Seamless SaaS Interfaces in Figma
How to ensure you don’t lose your audience 5 minutes into your user research presentation
The one essential tip to telling better stories around design: first, establish common ground Continue reading on UX Collective »
The fake aura of care
Stephen Farrugia · Follow Published in UX Collective · 9 min read · 2 days ago — Listen Share Image created by Stephen Farrugia with photos: “Brian Chesky and Travis Kalanick (cropped)” by TechCrunch licensed under CC BY 2.0. and “Mother Theresa in a church on Burano” by Sergey Galyonkin licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0… Continue reading The fake aura of care
20 Best PHP AI Tools on CodeCanyon
* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} Are you looking for AI-powered PHP tools to simplify your processes? Let’s have a look at some of the best PHP AI tools available on CodeCanyon: Staff Pick Chat Support Board: PHP ChatGPT AI Application An AI-driven chat bot with an integrated chat system. Supported messaging channels:… Continue reading 20 Best PHP AI Tools on CodeCanyon