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Reposting a Tweet by Don Marti

twitter.com

That’s not just a really good analogy, but an indicator for how morally rotten that industry is!
2021

Make me think!

ralphammer.com

While usability and UX have long been obsessed with simplification, following the “Don’t make me think” credo, Ralph Ammer formulates while the reduction of depth and the increased abstraction that comes with that is maybe not the best outcome:
Our decisions have consequences for ourselves and others. A simplified appearance can make us blind to those consequences. […] Simplification is a powerful design strategy. Naturally the button to make an emergency call should be as simple as possible. And yet, we also need further design strategies that help us accept, understand, and interact with complex situations in our lives.
2021

The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML" by Terence Eden

shkspr.mobi

Terence Eden tells the story of a young woman who, forced by circumstances, has to use a public website using a tiny gaming device’s browser. And it works. Because designers did their job:
The PSP’s web browser is – charitably – […]
#design-for-all
2021

Design Issues – Special Issue: The Rise of Legal Design

direct.mit.edu

An entire special issue of Design Issues dedicated to legal design as an emerging discipline! This (paywalled) journal contains a whole range of articles with perspectives on
2021

Arianna Rossi: « legal design offers a human-centered perspective to the law »

linc.cnil.fr

In this interview, Arianna Rossi summarizes her definition of “legal design” as
[…] an interdisciplinary approach that promotes human-centered design to prevent or solve legal problems, by prioritizing the point of views of all the users of law.
She highlights the interdisciplinary nature of the discipline, the preventive approach (avoiding legal risk by good design), and the broad audiences far beyond legal practitioners
2021

The dark side of UX Design

darkpatterns.uxp2.com

With its byline “Practitioner-identified examples of stakeholder values superseding user values”, this practice-based taxonomy of deceptive patterns in design is built from a collection of real-world examples with the aim to raise […]
2021

Legal Design Pioneers

anchor.fm

This podcast episode, hosted by Carol Hannud, is a comprehensive and very personal intro into legal design, told by four pioneers of the discipline — through the lens of how they ended up working in this field and how they look at it
2021

Reposting a Tweet by Alex Tait

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#design-for-all
2021

Accessible Colour Palettes – Figma

figma.com

Accessible Palettes has over 50+ AAA funky colour palettes for you to use in your next project!
Furquan Ahmad, inspired by colour schemes of football teams and certain places around London, created colour palettes that meet the w3C […]
#design-for-all
2021

Dieylxsa

geon.github.io

A tiny little demo that tries to resemble the experience of a person with dyslexia:
A friend who has dyslexia described to me how she experiences reading. She can read, but it takes a lot of concentration, and the letters seems to “jump […]
#design-for-all
2021

Responsible Web Applications

responsibleweb.app

Joy Heron uses “responsible” (a portmanteau of “responsive + accessible”) to present a concise introduction built around designing HTML with both responsiveness and accessibility in mind. It covers a good portion of the basics and I […]
#design-for-all
2021

Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud

inkandswitch.com

In this article we propose “local-first software”: a set of principles for software that enables both collaboration and ownership for users. Local-first ideals include the ability to work offline and collaborate across multiple devices, while […]
2021

Robin Rendle › Newsletters

robinrendle.com

Robin Rendle explores his love for email newsletters vs. his preference for publishing on the web (accessibility warning: scrolljacking; try “Reader view” in your browser). The piece is really worth reading in its entirety, but two slides about […]
2021