From 45,000-year-old cave paintings to 21st-century space rocket diagrams, illustrations have long played a significant role in human communication. Pictures cross-language and literacy barriers, allowing people to understand and communicate complex moods and feelings that they cannot in words. When we were little, we could understand and appreciate E.H. Shepard’s illustrations of Winnie the Pooh… Continue reading How Illustration Adds Emotion To UX
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WCAG 2.2 Overview and Feedback
A working draft of version 2.2 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) has been published for feedback. WebAIM is thrilled to see the work on these formative guidelines continuing and we appreciate the efforts of the W3C’s Accessibility Guidelines working group. Below are WebAIM’s plain language summaries of each of the new proposed success… Continue reading WCAG 2.2 Overview and Feedback
How to Define Effective Milestones in Design Projects
When it comes to creating and launching a website, it’s important to deliver realistic time expectations to the client, and establish the different stages you can bill them for. After all, creating a site is about so much more than putting some code together. From the initial brief to the launch of the site there… Continue reading How to Define Effective Milestones in Design Projects
5 Ways Social Media Can Impact Your Web Design
There is no denying that the introduction of social media to the world has changed the way website developers and designers build sites. In fact, social media marketing helps you strengthen your brand’s online presence. Thus, it is important that you take social media into consideration whenever you are building (or updating) a website for… Continue reading 5 Ways Social Media Can Impact Your Web Design
Wix Code: New Website Development Tool For Hassle-free Coding
Every individual and business familiar with internet knows the value of a professionally developed website. It could be a personal portfolio-cum-resume or the online front to your business. Creating your website is no easy job, from hunting down good web developers to the time it takes to get the job done, implying you haven’t lost… Continue reading Wix Code: New Website Development Tool For Hassle-free Coding
Psychology Hacks to Improve Your Website’s Effectiveness
August 23, 2017 by Alex Fox Psychological research has yielded a ton of fascinating precepts that can help us create better websites. By utilizing these psychology hacks, we can improve our websites’ effectiveness, increasing revenue and driving more traffic. Beneficial Defaults In the United States, we have a problem with organ donations: very few people… Continue reading Psychology Hacks to Improve Your Website’s Effectiveness
General Design Elements For Basic Website Development
The concept of web design can easily appear to be intimidatingly complicated. Designers are expected to achieve versatility and visibility, deliver information in an enticing and enriching manner, and be technically sound as well as visually coherent in one robust package. It sounds like a pretty daunting task, especially when you recognize that many developers… Continue reading General Design Elements For Basic Website Development
the Pros and Cons — SitePoint
This article is part of a series created in partnership with SiteGround. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. The range of hosting options has become bewilderingly complex during the past few years. The basics are simple: a computing device has software installed which can respond to a network event such as… Continue reading the Pros and Cons — SitePoint
Nurturing diversity at work and in your work
in·ten·tion·al·i·ty: the fact of being deliberate or purposive; the quality of mental states (e.g., thoughts, beliefs, desires, hopes) that consists in their being directed toward some object or state of affairs. Please. It’s 2017 and we still have this: (It’s a big ol’ gap between men’s earnings and women’s earnings across all occupations.) And this: (It’s… Continue reading Nurturing diversity at work and in your work