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Why Every Creative Needs a Mentor

Whether you’re a freelance designer, illustrator, or an aspiring art director, navigating your career alone can be daunting. A mentor provides guidance, support, and insights that can help accelerate both your professional and personal growth.

How to animate CSS Grid layouts

Let me teach you how to animate the CSS Grid properties by building a responsive image grid with hover effects.

Accessibility guidelines for UX Designers

As a UX designer, it is important to build empathy and celebrate accessibility requirements as a set of design constraints to build a better product.

Beyond the Surface: The Double-Edged Sword of Asking “Why?” in UX

In user experience (UX) research, asking users “Why?” is a fundamental practice aimed at uncovering the motivations behind their behaviours and preferences. On the surface, this approach seems straightforward: by understanding the reasons users provide, we can design products that better meet their needs. However, psychological research suggests that the effectiveness of “Why?” questions is more complex than it appears.

The Importance of Title Tags

When it comes to on-page SEO, there’s one element that plays a pivotal role in both search engine rankings and user engagement: the HTML title tag. Often overlooked, this small but mighty piece of code can have a significant impact on how your website is perceived by search engines like Google and by potential visitors browsing the search engine results pages.

Figma on Figma: Our approach to designing UI3

Overhauling Figma’s interface meant reimagining how designers work. From docked panels to a new labeling system, here’s how we shaped UI3 by balancing user feedback with our vision for the future.

Deferring Offscreen Images and Background Assets for Faster Loading

Deferring offscreen images is a web performance optimization technique that can help you improve user experience and Core Web Vitals on your site. Also known as lazy loading, it downloads out-of-view images only when they’re about to appear in the user’s viewport. Deferring offscreen images is especially important on image-heavy websites.

Digital strategy in the nonprofit sector

In our conversation, Tricia discusses how defining strategy differs between nonprofit and for-profit companies, as well as those in different industries and at various stages of their life cycles. She emphasizes a few key universal strategy principles that apply to any organization, and also shares insights into how trends like AI are impacting the nonprofit, media, and edtech sectors.

Request for developer feedback: customizable select

Styling form controls like the <select> element has been reported as a top developer pain point for years, and we’ve been working on a solution. While this work is complex and has taken a long time to get right, we’re getting very close to landing this feature. A customizable version of the select element is officially in Stage 2 in the WHATWG, with strong cross-browser interest and a prototype for you to test out from…

The role of UX in AI-driven healthcare

Among the sectors most likely to be profoundly transformed by AI is healthcare.

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