As online scams become more sophisticated, Carrie Webster explores whether good UX can serve as a frontline defense, particularly for non-tech-savvy older users navigating today’s digital world.

Designing user interfaces is no easy task. With countless choices around layout, spacing, typography, and colour, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. And when you layer in considerations like usability, accessibility, and human psychology, the challenge only grows.

If your role is linked with an area of business that impacts ROI, you can probably quite clearly tell in what way and by how much your design improves the company’s revenue.

This post shows the full process – start to finish – by actually designing a tiny app while we go. No designer in the loop, just vibes, taste, and a few rounds with an LLM.

We recently got the new shape() function for clip-path which is a game changer for creating CSS shape. Another cool feature is on the way and will soon be available: corner-shape.

And I must admit: I didn’t know a lot about color in CSS (I still used rgb(), which apparently isn’t what cool people do anymore), so it has been a fun learning experience. One of the things I noticed while trying to keep up with all this new information was how long the glossary of color goes, especially the “color” concepts. There are “color spaces,” “color models,” “color gamuts,” and basically a “color”…

UX benchmarking allows us to track the long-term changes in the overall user experience of our product, while UX success metrics help us assess the short-term impact of a specific project or feature launch.

As much as we don’t like forms (I personally like designing them, but filling them out is still a less than desirable experience) they are one of administrative adhesives that holds an organisation together.

The world of UX/UI design is experiencing an unprecedented shake-up. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is radically reshaping traditional UX practices

When stakeholders help create research insights instead of just receiving them, they show higher implementation rates. The IKEA effect (our tendency to overvalue things we help build) offers us a powerful tool for transforming passive stakeholders into active champions of user-centred design.