Road-tripping along the line between engineering and spirituality, Robert M. Pirsig’s musings on the arts, sciences, and Quality ring as true now as they ever have.I think we, as engineers and designers, have a lot to gain by stepping outside…
Cognitive load has become the web design equivalent of “eat your vegetables”—everyone knows it’s important, and we all try to do it, but sometimes it feels like we’re trying to stuff an entire kale salad into a single bite.Sure, reducing…
Learn how to create and implement a UX strategy framework that shapes work and drives real business value.In my experience, most UX teams find themselves primarily implementing other people’s ideas rather than leading the conversation about user experience. This happens…
When Figma announced Sites, designers lit up like it was Christmas, WWDC, and Adobe’s funeral all rolled into one. Finally, they cried — a tool that would let me publish directly from Figma. No developers. No handoff. No middleman. Just click “Publish”…
Transactional emails are integral to many websites and online businesses, including e-commerce, membership sites, marketplaces, forums, and job boards. If you own or manage any WordPress-based website that involves users creating accounts and logging in, deliverability issues with transactional emails…
The Penpot team is not slowing down on its mission to build a free design tool that not only offers powerful design features but is also well-integrated with code and modern development practices. In its latest release, Penpot, as the…
Off-screen menus, often represented in their most common form as the hamburger menu, have become a staple of modern user interface (UI) design. However, their implementation and effectiveness are not without debate.Two different opinions in the field—Jason Bradberry of Piccalilli and the Nielsen…
Shapes play a crucial role in web design as they help craft more engaging layouts that guide users through a journey. Those simple square-shaped info cards, curved background elements, and even the rounded buttons have a purpose. They are not…
Lost in a sea of UX files, docs, PDFs, and scattered decisions across Slack, Dropbox, Notion, and Figma? We talk a lot about organizing Figma, but what about a sensible folder structure for all UX assets? Let’s fix that. Kindly…
Let’s face it: the internet is a chaotic place. You can find everything from cat videos to thought-provoking think pieces—sometimes all in one place. The one thing that’s pretty universal, though?Websites need to make money to keep running. Whether it’s…