Sep 2022

LinkedIn Ran Social Experiments on 20 Million Users Over Five Years

nytimes.com

This is not the first report of how social networking sites run opaque “research” experiments on their users, and it is not going to be the last. But turning the users of your service into lab rats without them being aware of it, with potentially […]
2022

Accessibility is systemic

adactio.com

Jeremy Keith making the case for promoting accessibility on a system level:
Imagine someone who’s an expert at accessibility: they know all the details of WCAG and ARIA. Now put that person into an organisation that doesn’t prioritise […]
#design-for-all
2022

Hands-On Sustainable Web Design

branch.climateaction.tech

As an assumed 3.8% of global greenhouse emissions stem from “the digital world” (hard to define that more precisely, I assume), Laurent Devernay’s primer on how to make web design more sustainable is probably not the cure, but an important […]
2022

The Autistic UXer: Understanding, Researching and Designing for Autistic People

uxmastery.com

Different brains are beautiful because they think differently on a whole other level.
What an intro for an article about UX for neurodiverse users! Different brains are beautiful indeed. This article by Ashlea McKay starts from some […]
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2022

Building the main navigation for a website

web.dev

This must be the most thorough walk-through on accessible navigation patterns on the interwebs?
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2022

Minimum Viable Data Collection

hidde.blog

The question all website owners should be asking, is: do we really, really need these trackers to exist on our pages? Can’t we do the things we want to do without trackers?
Hidde de Vries presents simple thought exercises to […]
2022

Why your website should work without Javascript

endtimes.dev

For some reason, the myth that users without JavaScript don't exist, refuses to die. So thank you to the author of this comprehensive collection of both statistics (1% of millions is still a lot of people!) and – more importantly – all the other reasons that may, even temporarily, turn web users into "users with no JavaScript".
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2022

Stumblizer

indieseek.xyz

In the good old days, there was no full-text search for the web. It was all about directories; phonebook-like services (Yahoo being the most prolific, I assume) that categorized the web. Indieseek.xyz continues this tradition, with a strong Indieweb flavour […]
2022

Don’t Hide the Tech. Too much artifice is a symptom of something wrong

rushkoff.medium.com

Douglas Rushkoff’s argument against hiding technology by making it appear more human-friendly strikes a chord:
I’m happy for technology to be more “humane,” but not if that means disguising entirely inhumane algorithmic manipulation […]
#design
2022

Folk Interfaces

maggieappleton.com

“Folk Interfaces” by Maggie Appleton is a fascinating summary of an aspect of design that is actually somewhat related to my interest in as a gradient: the “other-use”, so to say…
Folk interfaces are when users […]
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2022

ADL Social Pattern Library | Anti hate by design

socialpatterns.adl.org

Conscious designers are well aware of the risks of online hate and harassment in social platforms. The Social Pattern Library wants to provide patterns to mitigate such risks through proven and tested strategies.
The Escalating Spiral of Online […]
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2022