Aug 2023

Educational Sensational Inspirational Foundational

esif.dev

Zach Leatherman solicited feedback from his audience and assembled this list of 42 “foundational web development blog posts” which is one of those resources that should be part of any curriculum on web design or web engineering. It’s almost […]
2023

Playbook for universal design – Universal design methods for more inclusive solutions

universaldesignguide.com

An interesting collection of workshop methods that add a layer of universal design and inclusion. Published by the Technical University of Denmark’s innovation hub “DTU Skylab”, it provides resources to pick from:
This Universal […]
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2023

European Accessibility Act: What you need to know

craigabbott.co.uk

The European Accessibility Act is new legislation which was brought in by the European Union (EU) in 2019 with the aim to make sure that products and services are more accessible. It goal is mainly to help people with disabilities, but it will […]
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2023

Giving a damn about accessibility

accessibility.uxdesign.cc

This "candid and practical handbook for designers", penned by Sheri Byrne-Haber is a refreshingly broad and actionable take on advocating for the accessibility mindset for practitioners in digital design, with valuable impulses for managers as well.
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2023

Death to the double diamond

tangentdesign.substack.com

Having just recently emerged from (yet another) “messy” design process myself, this thought-provoking critique of the “double diamond” process model strikes a chord with me:
The double diamond process offers a […]
#design
2023

God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter

wired.com

How will these smaller groups of happier people be monetized? This is a tough question for the billionaires. Happy people, the kind who eat sandwiches together, are boring. They don’t buy much. Their smartphones are six versions behind and have […]
2023

Just normal web things.

heather-buchel.com

When advocating for web accessibility, the formal requirements of the WCAG and other frameworks often take center stage. In “Just normal web things” by Heather Buchel, she (while acknowledging the overlap with formal a11y requirements) advocates […]
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2023

The internet is for 12-year-olds

maxread.substack.com

This is both a seemingly bold thesis and a surprisingly accurate description of what appears to be going on in large parts of the internet:
Because the audience online so wildly over-samples 12-year-olds relative to the population, and because […]
2023

Opportunity

adactio.com

This short text follows up on “Splitting the web” from a few days ago. Jeremy Keith connects it to a bunch of recent texts and presentations that and highlights how not choosing the mainstream path of “enshittification” is not so much […]
2023

Splitting the Web

ploum.net

While I greatly appreciate the way Lionel Dricot describes the split between the “commercial, monopolies-riddled, media-adored web”, driven by bloat and monetization, and the “tech-savvy web”, as a way to describe the more consicous […]
2023