Advanced Data Visualization Techniques with D3.js and Plotly
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The Never-Ending Job of Selling Design Systems
You didn’t start your web career to be a politician or salesperson. But if you want to work on design systems, you have no choice. Ben Callahan shows you how to convince executives to fund the init…
What Is Knolling? The Overhead Photography Trend Explained
It may sound like something you're supposed to do in a shady glen or a far-away forest, but in reality, knolling is an important and popular design term
Letters · A collection of personal statements from designers
Daily UI/UX Design Challenges - Enhance Skills & Portfolio
Take on daily UI/UX design challenges of varying difficulties. Build and share your portfolio to advance your design career.
UX Repo: UX resources and methods
Everything you need to deliver exceptional user experiences. Understand your users to deliver solutions that provide value.
A Primer of Visual Literacy
This primer is designed to teach students the interconnected arts of visual communication. The subject is presented, not as a foreign language, but as a nati...
Redesigning Design Systems - Redesigning Design Systems
Landing Pages Explained
Leading SaaS and creator landing pages with expert explanations of the ideas used to increase conversion
“I picked a bad time to become a critic” – Elizabeth Goodspeed on the collapse of design critique
Design critique, much like any criticism nowadays, falls into two opposite camps – and neither is constructive.
Work
Old Dogs, new CSS Tricks
A lot of new CSS features have shipped in the last years, but actual usage is still low. One of the biggest barriers: we need to re-wire our own brains.
Creating Passionate Users
This blog has always been about optimism, creating better user experiences, helping users spend more time in flow, and learning. There are 405 posts here. More importantly, there are nearly 10,000 comments from y'all that add so much more to the topics, and from which myself and others have learned a great deal. I don't want the last thing people remember about this blog to be The Bad Things.
Design intuitive
Design System Retrospective | Kyle Shevlin
I built a cross platform (React & React Native) design system at my last company. I'm in the middle of building another one for a client. Let me tell you what I learned, decisions I regret, and what I'm doing differently this time.
Should we be adding Keyboard Shortcuts to our websites?
I remember when I was young, and sometimes the mouse would just stop working. When that happened, oh,...
SEO Case Study: How Canva Used Outreach & Content To Grow
In this SEO case study, we highlight how Canva used SEO, backlink outreach & content marketing to grow their business to a $6B valuation.
Craft and Beauty: The ROI of Marrying Form and Function | Figma Blog
Leaders from Stripe, Linear, and Figma explore how craft and beauty are core to product and business growth.
$20 billion Figma Acqusition fallout, Product lessons from Figma CEO
This are product lessons and tips showing what we can learn from how Figma CEO (Dylan Field) buildt figma to be a product everyone loves
What do developers want from designers | Figma
Figma recently conducted a survey of 200 front-end engineers to find out how they like working with designers. We asked them what’s working, what isn’t and where the points of tension are.
Effective Collaboration with Product and Design
How we work with design can have a tremendous impact on our overall output, and yet we don't always treat it as very important. A look at how collaborating with design can supercharge our own productivity.
Interview with Clara Ujiie, Designer Advocate at Figma
Clara is a designer, doodler, and noodler fascinated by the intersection of tooling and creative communities.
Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things
Somehow we forgot how to center rectangles and must find our way back
Wardley map - Wikipedia
A Wardley map is a map for business strategy.[1] Components are positioned within a value chain and anchored by the user need, with movement described by an evolution axis.[2] Wardley maps are named after Simon Wardley who created the technique at Fotango in 2005 having created the evolutionary framing the previous year.[3][4] The technique was further developed within Canonical UK between 2008 and 2010[5][third-party source needed] and components of mapping can be found in the "Better For Less" paper published in 2010.[6]
Mixing Modern with Victorian Interior Design
You may have heard the term “modern Victorian interior design,” and if you find it somewhat confusing, don’t worry, you’re not the only one
RichardLitt/standard-readme: A standard style for README files
A standard style for README files. Contribute to RichardLitt/standard-readme development by creating an account on GitHub.
Coca-Cola's logo free-for-all makes a refreshing change
Throw out those brand guidelines!
Reimagining Gantt charts for UX project management - LogRocket Blog
Gantt charts, if applied correctly, can be a strategic asset for keeping your head above the waves of complexities in UX projects.
Sacred Geometries and Scientific Diagrams Merge in the Metaphysical World of Daniel Martin Diaz — Colossal
Nature, science, perception, and the arcane merge to form the foundational philosophy of Daniel Martin Diaz’s practice.