Design

A recreation of the original 1821 color guidebook with new cross references, photographic examples, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux

OKLCH is a new way to encode colors (like hex, RGBA, or HSL)

Use LCH color space to come up with predictable and accessible color palettes

Create color systems with consistent lightness and contrast.

A comprehensive reference database of dimensioned drawings documenting the standard measurements and sizes of the everyday objects and spaces that make up our world.

Learn what the Double Diamond design process is and how to leverage it to design impactful solutions that engage users.

The Washington Post Design System (WPDS) is a growing library of design tokens and interactive components purpose-built for washingtonpost.com

If you are clear and candid about your goals and questions, you can learn something useful within whatever time and budget is available to you.

Curate resources to design complex data tables for Enterprise UX: table patterns, designing tables for enterprise apps & fitting big tables with a lot of content.

Coding email like it's 2023

A self-guided class to help you get started in UX and answer key questions about craft, design, and career

At IBM, our design philosophy is to help guide people so they can do their best work. Our human-centered design practices help us deliver on that goal.

Sustainable web design is an approach to designing digital products and services that puts people and planet first.

“If the Internet was a country, it would be the 7th largest polluter”

Microsoft’s new design tool emphasises generative AI. How good is its UI?

Picyard is a free online service that provides beautiful backgrounds for your screenshots. Simply upload your screenshot and let Picyard do the rest. Our easy-to-use interface and customizable options make it simple to create stunning images for all your needs.

Free online SVG confetti generator, maker to create beautiful background confetti effects for websites & social media posts.

The dialog element lets you overlay content on top of your site in something called the "top layer", which is a special layer that sits above all other content. This way you never have to worry about your dialog being…

A modern look at responsive web design.

The NDS is a coherent set of standards and principles that combine neurodiversity and user experience design for Learning Management Systems.

Learn how to create your own rainbow gradient, how to save it as a preset, and how to quickly add your rainbow colors to images, shapes and text in Photoshop!

Take a look at the timeline of web design history and remember the milestones that took place since the first website was launched in October 1991.

If someone asked you to build a coffee table and they specified the legs as a height of 50, what do you think that would mean? 50 kilometres? 50 feet? 50 inches? 50 millimetres? Probably 50 centimetres. You can’t know for sure, but you can guess, based on the table’s intended use — 50 kilometres, 50 feet, and 50 inches are way too big for a coffee table, and 50 millimetres is way too small.

Web magazine about user experience matters, providing insights and inspiration for the user experience community

A cheat sheet to help you write interview and follow ups questions for user research and usability test protocols (also available as .PDF)

https://1984.design Learn how to become a better designer. If it is design that got us here, design can get us out. Learn user experience design methods and how to work with humane technology.