Practical UX guidelines to keep in mind for 466 million people who experience hearing loss. More design patterns in Smart Interface Design Patterns, a friendly video course on UX and design patterns by Vitaly. When we think about people who are deaf, we often assume stereotypes, such as “disabled” older adults with hearing aids. However,…
Here is the real talk: your giant GitHub folder of 500 tools, your Kali box, loaded with all the extra packages, and your bookmarks folder, full of the latest lists of Top 10 Hacking Tools? They do not make you a pro pentester. They are merely a fine security blanket. You are getting confused between…
My daughter had a little phase of being into Word Searches. I found it to be a cool dad moment when I was like “I’ll make you a tool to make them!”. That’s what she was into. She liked doing them OK, but she really liked the idea of making them. So my tool starts…
If I had to whittle down my favorite thing about CSS-Tricks to one thing — and like Tom Petty hits, there’s a lot of ’em — it’s that we take moments like this to hit Pause and simply write like humans. We’re a super technical site that gets into super technical web dev jargon and…
We get all excited when we get new CSS features. Well, I do anyway. It’s amazing, because sometimes it unlocks something we’ve literally never been able to do before. It’s wonderful when an artist finishes a new painting, and something to be celebrated. But this is more akin to a new color dropping, making possible…
Turn scattered user research into AI-powered personas that give anyone consolidated multi-perspective feedback from a single question. In my previous article, I explored how AI can help us create functional personas more efficiently. We looked at building personas that focus on what users are trying to accomplish rather than demographic profiles that look good on…
The text-decoration-inset CSS property solves a problem that we’ve had since the beginning of the web, which is that text decorations such as underlines extend beyond the first and last characters (to the edges of the content box, to be specific), resulting in vertical misalignment. CodePen Embed Fallback I say it’s a problem “we’ve” had…
This is an appreciation post for the Cloud Four Blog. It’s one of those must-subscribes. I find myself adding almost every post they put out to my archive of posts to dig into. So since I’m overflowing with them a bit, and there is a hot-off-the-presses one, I figured I’d share that and a bunch…
Meet TARS — a simple, repeatable, and meaningful UX metric designed specifically to track the performance of product features. Upcoming part of the Measure UX & Design Impact (use the code 🎟 IMPACT to save 20% off today). So we design and ship a shiny new feature. How do we know if it’s working? How…
Introduction Apps are more complex than ever. You have more tools, APIs, and managed services than you can count, but all that convenience brings new challenges. Microservices sprawl, dependency chains, and flaky CI pipelines can turn simple updates into landmines. How do you scale without everything breaking? How do you stay compliant without drowning in…