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

How you can create non-obvious UX research insights

6 tips to sidestep “we already knew it” feedback on a research report Image on https://www.nirandfar.com/hindsight-bias/ Every UX researcher wonders how they can create amazing insights that go beyond expectations and elicit a ‘wow!’ reaction from their audience. Despite conducting numerous rounds of interviews, sometimes our research reports can seem too plain and bland if they… Continue reading How you can create non-obvious UX research insights

5 book recommendations to help drive accessibility adoption and strategy

These books helped us help our coaching crews, and they may help you and yours Deque offers a unique accessibility coaching service. We embed coaches in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) across whole teams as well as side-by-side with specific roles. Coaches support teams in incorporating accessibility practices into their design/build/test processes. A coach’s responsibilities… Continue reading 5 book recommendations to help drive accessibility adoption and strategy

14 Valentine’s Day Web Templates You Should Use

Valentine’s Day is a special occasion that celebrates love and affection between couples. It’s a day to express your feelings to your loved ones and make them feel special. For businesses, it’s an opportunity to connect with customers and show that you care about their relationship goals. The right templates can set your site apart… Continue reading 14 Valentine’s Day Web Templates You Should Use

10 Best WordPress Portfolio and Gallery Plugins of 2023

Are you looking to showcase your work in a creative and beautiful way? WordPress portfolio and gallery plugins are exactly what you need. Add a stunning gallery to your WordPress website to display your work, your latest blog posts, and more. Portfolio and gallery plugins give you the flexibility and power to display your content… Continue reading 10 Best WordPress Portfolio and Gallery Plugins of 2023

12 Email Templates for Holiday-Themed Newsletters

If you’re looking for a way to add some holiday cheer to your email marketing campaigns, look no further! These email templates are perfect for seasonal newsletters and announcements. They feature festive designs and cheerful messages that will get your customers feeling jolly in no time! From warm, cozy winter images to classic holiday greetings,… Continue reading 12 Email Templates for Holiday-Themed Newsletters

4g CO2 per email—really?

Disentangling a well-known “fact” about emails. There’s a lot of “received wisdom” kicking about on the internet — ideas and “facts” which are essentially presented without question on the basis of “ he said it, so it must be true”. This afflicts many fields, and sustainability is no exception. One common example is that “sending an email generates… Continue reading 4g CO2 per email—really?

How to find your designer self — and understand how YOU approach design

How to find your designer self — And understand how YOU approach design We all know the feeling. The identity crisis that comes with being a designer is not easy to overcome. Somehow we are solving problems for others all the time, but when it comes to ourselves it feels impossible. The good news is you already have… Continue reading How to find your designer self — and understand how YOU approach design

Be a cultivator of ideas to achieve trust, buy-in, and design excellence

Be a cultivator of ideas because you are more likely to achieve design excellence when you include ideas from a diverse group of people. Field Of Sunflowers by Matthew T Rader One of the UX Designer‘s primary roles is to not generate all the ideas but to cultivate ideas from the various stakeholders in a project. Early… Continue reading Be a cultivator of ideas to achieve trust, buy-in, and design excellence

15 Elegant CSS Pricing Tables for Your Latest Web Project

Pricing tables are an important part of any website that sells some kind of services and products. You can use them to quickly list the features, similarities, or differences between two, three, or four different products at once. These tables give users all the information they need when choosing between different products and services. This,… Continue reading 15 Elegant CSS Pricing Tables for Your Latest Web Project

5 Design Strategies to Boost Affiliate Sales for Content Sites

One of the best ways for content sites to make a profit is through affiliate marketing. After all, it’s an industry that has shown an average growth rate of 10% in the last five years. Moreover, it’s projected to hit the $6.8 billion mark in 2020. The industry is like a big cake, and everyone… Continue reading 5 Design Strategies to Boost Affiliate Sales for Content Sites

Accessible Routing in JavaScript Frameworks

Lost in Transition In my role as a Developer Consultant with Deque, I get asked a variety of questions on how to implement and fix technical accessibility issues. One topic that always seems to be at the forefront of everything else that developers have asked is ‘How do I manage focus in my JavaScript framework?’.… Continue reading Accessible Routing in JavaScript Frameworks

What to look for in an accessibility audit

If your organization is completely new to digital accessibility, an audit or assessment is a great place to start to see where your organization stands. An accessibility audit is a combination of automated and manual testing done by accessibility experts using assistive technologies in various testing states. A detailed audit is a thorough review of… Continue reading What to look for in an accessibility audit

How to Autoload Classes With Composer in PHP

In this article, we’ll discuss the basics of autoloading in PHP and how to autoload PHP classes with Composer. I’ll explain why autoloading is so important and show you how to use Composer for autoloading step by step. I’ll also explain the difference between the different kinds of autoloading in Composer. Why Do We Need… Continue reading How to Autoload Classes With Composer in PHP

eCommerce SEO: 5 Proven Ways to Grow Sales 

We get it, budgets are really tight at the moment. Not only are small businesses and start-ups battling to keep their heads above water during this time, but corporate giants are also feeling the pinch. With this in mind, we thought we would step in and give you a helping hand with one of the… Continue reading eCommerce SEO: 5 Proven Ways to Grow Sales 

How to Create Attractive YouTube Video Thumbnails

Would you like to increase views on your YouTube channel? YouTube is a giant platform for creators to showcase their talent. Many users have gained fame and respect by creating quality content. You can increase your chances of making a viral video by opting for an appealing thumbnail. It grabs the audience’s attention towards your… Continue reading How to Create Attractive YouTube Video Thumbnails

Learning to use SEO for a Brand-New Website

While SEO is designed to boost a website’s ranking, the best time to start SEO is before the site is created. Everything from selecting the domain name to producing each page on the website is going to impact SEO, so it’s best to consider all of this from the very beginning. Before Creating the Website… Continue reading Learning to use SEO for a Brand-New Website

How to Build an Engaging (And Functional) Event Website

Hosting an event, a birthday or even planning for your own wedding or retirement party? No matter what it is, having a website to help promote the event and share information with your audience is great. If you are hoping to attract as many participants as possible, you need to make a website and also… Continue reading How to Build an Engaging (And Functional) Event Website

So You’re Selling a WordPress Theme: Best Practices for Demos

When you’re selling a theme, its demo is your sales pitch. If the demo falls short in some way, it’s doing a disservice to the theme and will lead to a loss of sales. If your theme includes hundreds of features, but buyers can’t see them in action, you may as well have no features… Continue reading So You’re Selling a WordPress Theme: Best Practices for Demos

Sharing Painful Experience of Resetting Password on GoDaddy

Forgot Password Screen — GoDaddy Recently, I wanted to purchase a domain on GoDaddy. I searched and found the domain and started a checkout process. However, I was unable to recall my all password. So, I decided to reset the password. When I saw a reset password screen, It asked for “User Name & Customer #”. I… Continue reading Sharing Painful Experience of Resetting Password on GoDaddy

Build Better Contact Forms with These Guidelines

Look around the web, and you’ll see that web developers (and their clients) love contact forms. And for good reason: they collect important information about customers cheaply and effectively. But so many of these forms are clumsily designed or poorly implemented, cutting companies off from their customer. Avoid these problems and learn to build better… Continue reading Build Better Contact Forms with These Guidelines

Free Floral Business Cards Collection (exclusive)

Our friends from Freepik and Flaticon shares today on Designbeep with all our readers a complete pack that includes an amazing variety floral business cards to use in your business life. Each business card design comes with editable .AI and EPS files and you can use,share or modify both for your personal and commercial projects.… Continue reading Free Floral Business Cards Collection (exclusive)

Free Blurred Summer Wallpapers (JPG, AI, EPS)

Our friends from Freepik and Flaticon shares today on Designbeep with all our readers a complete pack that includes an amazing variety of free blurred summer wallpapers to add a fresh touch to your desktop. With these free stunning backgrounds and wallpapers by Freepik and Flaticon you will be able to smell the summer breeze… Continue reading Free Blurred Summer Wallpapers (JPG, AI, EPS)

How To Create Impressive Websites

Image source: reuters.tv[2] As we already mentioned, ‘wow’ is the word we want our users to say when they open our website. It shows that they are amazed by what we’ve done and that our work was successful. You could appreciate them liking the site or addressing it as nice, but it is much better… Continue reading How To Create Impressive Websites