In today’s increasingly digital world, websites have become the backbone of businesses, organizations, and personal brands alike. They serve as a point of contact, a source of information, and often, a means to conduct transactions. However, with the rise in website usage comes the rise in cyber threats. Whether it’s a personal blog, an e-commerce… Continue reading Website Security Tips: Why It’s Important and How to Protect Your Site
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The Importance of Shopify Web Maintenance for Your Online Store
A Shopify store is the epicenter of your business, especially in the dynamic eCommerce world. It is where customers browse, make purchases, and interact with your brand. Like any technology, a Shopify store requires routine care to function at its best. Here’s when Shopify Web Maintenance comes into the play. Without continuous maintenance, even the… Continue reading The Importance of Shopify Web Maintenance for Your Online Store
Accessible Images For When They Matter Most
<div class=”logo”> <a href=”/” title=”Back to the homepage”> <picture> <source media=”(min-width: 1350px)” srcset=”…/images/logo-full.svg”> <img src=”…/images/logo/logo.svg” alt=”Smashing Magazine”> </picture> </a> </div> Hearing both the phrase “back to the homepage” and “Smashing Magazine” in one feature is OK since each phrase is unique and connected to a different purpose. For more complex alternative text phrases, conduct the… Continue reading Accessible Images For When They Matter Most
Continuous Product Design: Step-by-step Guide
Most IT-supplied products and functions are not used in practice. Resources, applications, and software remain idle. Not all companies consider whether their products are effective for the users. Consequently, 91% of unsatisfied customers don’t complain about their bad experience. They simply leave without giving feedback. A vivid proof is the mobile development market, which has… Continue reading Continuous Product Design: Step-by-step Guide
The software development war
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Fantasy characters face each other in terrible combat. Just how typical stakeholders on a project fight about how best to build their software product. Credit: Me. Turning product managers and engineers from frustrating foes into advocating allies DESIGNERS! TO ARMS!!! Each and every one of our UX compatriots on every software production… Continue reading The software development war
How do I propose to improve the usability of Gymnasium.com
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Photo by Hal Gatewood on Unsplash I pretty much discovered UX Design through their UX fundamentals course while working as a Test Automation Engineer. Although the course material was excellent, covering the fundamentals of UX beautifully, the platform itself had some clear usability issues. Gymnasium features a clean and simple design… Continue reading How do I propose to improve the usability of Gymnasium.com
Visual Design: Glossary
Summary: Use this glossary to quickly clarify key terms and concepts related to visual design. Visual design requires knowledge and understanding of many jargon terms. Use this glossary as a reference as you delve into visual and user interface design. Jump to a definition in the table or review the complete glossary. Aesthetic-Usability Effect Users’… Continue reading Visual Design: Glossary
Generative AI UX Design Patterns
[unable to retrieve full-text content] PRACTICAL DESIGN INNOVATION Facilitating conversations on Generative AI in your UX ecosystem Midjourney Generative AI can add value to your site in many more ways than as a conversational ChatGPT-like experience or as a feature like the button on resume sites that generates your cover letter. Let’s explore different ways to… Continue reading Generative AI UX Design Patterns
Content Standards in Design Systems
Summary: Content standards in design systems support a holistically consistent user experience and efficient collaboration between writers, content, and UI designers. Efficiency and consistency are always at the top of UX practitioners’ minds, especially for teams facing tight deadlines or resource constraints. While design systems commonly prioritize UI design components and patterns, incorporating content standards… Continue reading Content Standards in Design Systems
Customer Experience Development: Building Stronger Connections with Your Customers
The Power of CX Development: Building Strong Connections with Customers The significance of a customer experience process is increasing rapidly in the e-commerce realm. Without the physical touchpoints applied in brick-and-mortar retail, it encompasses the entire customer journey. The foundation of effective digital selling, therefore, is the seamless fusion of technology, comfort, and human connection… Continue reading Customer Experience Development: Building Stronger Connections with Your Customers
How to Tackle Prompting Challenges with AI Writing Tools
With the rise of readily available generative AI tools, it is now possible to create large bodies of text in a matter of seconds. However, crafting the right prompts to achieve the desired output can be challenging. In this article, we will examine the complexities of prompting and how AI writing tools can simplify the… Continue reading How to Tackle Prompting Challenges with AI Writing Tools
Modernizing LOTO — Prioritizing User Requirements with the Kano Model
[unable to retrieve full-text content] I worked on this project for nearly 2 years at my previous workplace, and although I can’t dive deep into the technical details due to NDAs, the process itself was an incredible learning journey for me. And that’s what we will be focusing on, the journey not the destination. In… Continue reading Modernizing LOTO — Prioritizing User Requirements with the Kano Model
How this year’s hair trends translate to the state of content design
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Wispy bangs and that little bit of extra texture in your content design org Still from the song ‘Hair’ from the musical ‘Hair’, 1979 Hair has always been big for me. Not just because my favorite movie is the musical movie ‘Hair’ from 1979 but also because I’ve always considered my usually… Continue reading How this year’s hair trends translate to the state of content design
Deque adds IntelliJ and WebStorm plugins to axe DevTools Linter
We’ve just tripled our Integrated Development Environment (IDE) support! In addition to a VS Code extension, Deque now offers axe DevTools Linter as a plugin for paid IntelliJ IDEA and WebStorm editions. A quick refresher on axe DevTools Linter Axe DevTools Linter is a powerful tool for your software development team. We provide a mini-linting-toolbox… Continue reading Deque adds IntelliJ and WebStorm plugins to axe DevTools Linter
Why UI designers should understand Flexbox and CSS Grid
CSS for UI Designer Or bye bye, 12-column grid layout Most designers are familiar with responsive design, a column-based layout approach with fixed breakpoints to cover all screen sizes. However, we can move beyond the rigid structure with modern CSS layouts, crafting flexible and dynamic designs that seamlessly adjust to different screen sizes. Designers and developers having different… Continue reading Why UI designers should understand Flexbox and CSS Grid
Company culture is more than just office perks
How product culture and company culture are intrinsically related. Image by Creative Lab @ scop.io “Company culture is the backbone of any successful organization.”—Gary Vaynerchuk A goal is something to aim at Company culture is a powerful hiring magnet and a common discussion topic both in- and outside of companies. It starts with providing good environment and… Continue reading Company culture is more than just office perks
15 Great Tools & Resources for Designers & Agencies in 2024
Posted · Category: Design, Tools It’s 2024 and the number of web design resources and tools on the market seems overwhelming. That’s good news since you need the right tools and resources to come up with competitive designs. The bad news is, rather than sifting through thousands of products to get the ones that best… Continue reading 15 Great Tools & Resources for Designers & Agencies in 2024
UI elements are not so elementary
To function, components require a specific structure. To appear visually — they don’t. This has been breaking handoff processes for years. Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table looks simple, it doesn’t strike as if the elements are, in fact, significantly different from one another. But when you dig in and understand that just a ‘seemingly insignificant’ property of the number… Continue reading UI elements are not so elementary
Test smart: How to validate product on a business-facing level?
It took a long time since my story How to Select Testing Techniques for an Agile Team was published (if you ask me what happened in between, the short answer will be: a war in Ukraine and a career pivot). The mentioned story focused on Agile Testing Quadrants, a method presented by Lisa Crispin and… Continue reading Test smart: How to validate product on a business-facing level?
Rock Solid WordPress Security: Keeping Your Business Safe
Development By Simon Sterne Today WordPress is the web’s favourite CMS (content management system), renowned for its low-entry level and vast array of themes and plugins. WordPress’s open-source nature allows for endless flexibility, catering to diverse needs and technical skills. Unfortunately, 10,950,000 websites are hacked yearly, and 4,708,500 of those belong to small businesses. WordPress’s… Continue reading Rock Solid WordPress Security: Keeping Your Business Safe
Google Maps: a refreshing turn in the right direction
Finally! Google Maps gets a much-needed makeover… and we’re here for it. Sometimes, a reroute is all it takes to rediscover the joy of the journey — Google Maps’ latest update is a testament to that. What’s New Since My Last Rant A few months back, I ripped into some serious user experience flaws in Google Maps. Google Maps: about that… Continue reading Google Maps: a refreshing turn in the right direction
Design Systems Teams: Understand Your Users So They Can Serve Theirs
Welcome to the next edition of my Design Strategy blog series. Today, I’ll be sharing a story from some recent client visits that will help y’all recognize WHY you should do things differently to mature and scale your digital accessibility program quickly. I will once again skip the “how-to” dry laundry lists of tactical “do… Continue reading Design Systems Teams: Understand Your Users So They Can Serve Theirs
Making Waves in India 2023: Why Accessibility Deserves a Spot on Tech Giants’ Radar
India has a new rising economy that is catching everybody’s attention with its development, innovation, and growth. But we won’t be talking about what’s out there on the internet. We will be diving deep into a topic that’s making waves and deserves a prime spot on the radar of tech giants – Web Accessibility. Now,… Continue reading Making Waves in India 2023: Why Accessibility Deserves a Spot on Tech Giants’ Radar
Name/Role/Value – Whose Role Is It Anyway?
Welcome to the next edition of my Design Strategy blog series. Today, I’m sharing a client story with the hope that y’all will focus on thinking about WHY you should do things differently so that your program can rapidly mature and scale quickly. I will once again skip the “how-to” article formula and dry laundry… Continue reading Name/Role/Value – Whose Role Is It Anyway?