Leicht verständliche Sprache - gender-fair!
capito.eu
A rare gem: an observational study validating the comprehensibility of five different forms of gender-neutral German text.
The Potentially Dangerous Non-Accessibility Of Cookie Notices
smashingmagazine.com
Nobody likes cookie consent modals. But if you are not able to "design them away" by technical solutions, they should at least be fully accessible.
The Calm Web: A Solution to Our Scary and Divisive Online World
calibreapp.com
I really enjoyed this take by Karolina Szczur, which is essentially about a focus on usability and user-centredness vs. the excessive overload that has creeped into the web over the decades.
The Calm Web is a reimagining of the online world that […]
Contract Improvement Personas: the Drafters, Designers, Digitisers and Doers
improvingcontracts.com
As the old saying goes: if the only tool you have is a hammer, it’s tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail; an age-old bias that also applies to the new world of contract improvement – both for those providing services (like me) […]
"Connected in Isolation"
The vast majority of people in wealthy, highly connected, or digitally privileged societies may have crossed the digital divide, but being online does not mean that everyone is equally connected—and digital inequality reflects experience both […]
aaltodoc.aalto.fi
This dissertation by Kaisu Savola is as niche as it is fascinating (to me at least, having received my “designerly training” in the very institution that formalized the design profession in Finland):
In the field of design history […]
Extending the Kirby page cache with Etag validation and custom flush rules
Kirby is a very performant CMS to start with (see this recent benchmark test), and is already enjoyably responsive without any server-side caching in place. Yet, instead of re-rendering for every visitor, the “page cache” feature (which last year […]