Posts Tagged ‘ui’

I’m messing with my MailChimp account and really love their Brand Kit feature. You have the ability to upload logos, define color palettes, typography, personality, button styles, and more. I especially like the experience around managing logos. They provide a […]

OMG. Life perspective through UI. I freaking love it. Check out My Life in Weeks by Gina Trapani

There have been tons of design system roundup sites over the years, but The Component Gallery  by Iain Bean is particularly well designed and fun.

Nice, Very Nice is a collection of UX/UI patterns for your inspiration.

Here’s Heydon Pickering with a metric ton of great advice about creating accessible, flexible, robust card components.

Card grids are definitely a common pattern in almost all my projects, and I’ve run into all of the pitfalls Dave lays out. I’ve been thinking a lot about this post ever since I read it, and I feel I […]

Fantastic deep dive into writing accessible tabs & accordions from Heydon Pickering. This is something I’ve always struggled with, so this detailed post certainly helps.

I’m almost finished with Chapter 2 of Atomic Design, which defines the atomic design methodology and discusses the benefits of using atomic design to craft UI design systems. While approaching this chapter, I wanted to address the fact that atomic […]

Conducting an interface inventory is a critical first step for establishing an effective interface design system. I’ve written about what interface inventories are and why they’re important, so here’s a recap of what they are: An interface inventory is similar to a content […]

Many are familiar with the concept of a content inventory. Content audits are usually performed in the early stages of a website redesign process to take stock of all a site’s content. It’s a tedious process involving spreadsheets and caffeine, […]

Carousels, image rotators, sliders, featured content modules, whatever the hell you want to call them — they’re everywhere on the web. There’s a 95% chance you’ve created one. But despite being so omnipresent, little is said about our splashy little […]

The always-brilliant Jason Grigsby (@grigs) with a fantastic write-up on responsive design, apps, the difference (or lack thereof) between mobile handsets and tablets, and breaking through our consensual hallucinations.