When designing web pages, understanding CSS units is essential for creating responsive and visually appealing layouts. CSS offers a variety of units that can be broadly categorized into two groups: absolute units and relative units. This cheat sheet will provide an overview of the most commonly used CSS units, their use cases, and examples.
We’ve all been there—rushing to meet a deadline, we throw together a dropdown menu or modal without fully considering its accessibility. But what if making a few small changes could drastically improve the experience for a broader range of users? Accessibility doesn’t have to be a daunting task or a compliance box to tick. It’s about creating products that are usable by everyone, no matter their ability, technical literacy, operating…
Custom software development has become a critical investment for companies looking to tailor software to their unique business needs.
Tegon, the open source, AI-first issue tracker for engineering teams, faced the challenge of changing its UI and UX to set the product apart from other issue trackers. Evil Martians took charge of this transformation, successfully redesigning the core experience and bringing forward new ideas for AI-first features to take the issue tracker UX above and beyond. Our contributions helped Tegon launch version 2.0 in just 2.5 months, with well-received…
Our global community has always been instrumental in helping us build our professional design tools. After all, your feedback helps us shape the ongoing innovation in both Illustrator and InDesign, by either bringing in new features or improving existing ones to optimize creative workflows, expressiveness, power and precision so you have more time to focus on the work you love.
If you know how to ride a bike now and wait five years to ride one again, you’ll likely do just fine once you get back on. Bicycles are intuitive once you’ve learned how to ride them, and the basic design is unlikely to change over time and across bicycles. Reaching this level of usability in software is a little more difficult.
At the Hatch Conference 2023 in Berlin, I met my idol Brad Frost for the first time. As a UX/UI designer, Brad Frost has been accompanying me for many years, teaching me a great deal about Atomic Design and Design Systems.
Cool and inspiring code demos we’ve featured in our newsletter over the past few weeks.
You can’t overstate the importance of accessible website design. By the same token, bottom-up philosophies are crucial in modern site-building. A detail-oriented approach makes it easier to serve a more diverse audience along several fronts. Making the most of this opportunity will both extend your reach to new niches and make the web a more equitable place.
UX design is no longer just about making a website or app look good. Today, it’s about creating an experience that not only engages users but also turns them into loyal clients.
