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How 10 years of UX innovation digitally transformed Transport Focus into the UK’s go-to transport resource

When Transport Focus first approached us in 2012, we could never have predicted that a decade later, we’d be stewarding one of the UK’s most critical public resources through its third major evolution. What started as a straightforward website redesign has grown into a strategic partnership that demonstrates the power of sustained collaboration.

Create a color contrast checker with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

In this tutorial, we’ll create a color contrast tool that lets you check the accessibility and readability of text, by comparing the ratio between background and foreground colors.

How to Create Reusable Canva Templates for Your Brand

Consistency is key when it comes to building a memorable brand. But keeping your designs aligned, especially when your team is growing or juggling lots of content, can be time-consuming.

Figma moves closer to its community with Latin American Spanish localization

Figma, a design and development platform for people who build apps, websites, and other digital products together, is expanding its presence in Latin America. At the same time, it is further localizing its products with the launch of Latin American Spanish.

Why no one takes content design seriously (and how to change that)

Content design. The somewhat forgotten practice that guides users from A to B. That structures information. That plays a simple yet powerful role in shaping user experience (UX). The unsung hero of design that very rarely receives the recognition it deserves.

The 7 Stages of Pushing Pixels: From Hope to Existential Dread

If you often just obsessively nudge pixels until your sanity starts to fray… This painfully relatable (and slightly unhinged) journey through the 7 stages of pushing pixels is for you! If you’ve ever cried over a 0.5px misalignment, this one’s your therapy session.

Implement WCAG Rules in Your Infographics

Create WCAG-compliant infographics with expert tips on alt text, contrast, and screen reader support. Make your visuals accessible to all.

CSS Intelligence: Speculating On The Future

CSS has evolved from a purely presentational language into one with growing logical powers — thanks to features like container queries, relational pseudo-classes, and the if() function. Is it still just for styling, or is it becoming something more? Gabriel Shoyombo explores how smart CSS has become over the years, where it is heading, the challenges it addresses, whether it is becoming too complex, and how developers are reacting to this shift.

A simple website (back in time)

This website is a trip down memory lane. I’m not trying to tell you to stop modern web development. This website uses technologies not available at the time the content here is about. It works on mobile (tested in Firefox for Android) but you miss out on the background image.

More assorted notes on Liquid Glass

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been trying to make sense of Apple’s latest user-interface redesign — Apple calls it Liquid Glass — that will affect all their platforms in the next iteration of their respective OS versions. But it’s hard to make sense of it when, after checking Apple’s own guidance, I’m mostly left with the feeling that at Apple they’re making things up as they go.

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