Convention for sorting within a sort on grids
The convention of a sort-able grid seems to be well established. A user sorts on a column by clicking on the header and an arrow appears indicating the direction of the sort. However when the column that is sorted contains many duplicates …
How to Find Out What a Web Design Client Really Needs
Do you have a client that doesn’t know the process of developing a website? There are some things you can do to help them.
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Creating an accessible, animated, and responsive navigation system
I’ve been struggling for the past couple weeks to design the perfect navigation (menu) system for my personal website which I am designing.
First, I need a system that is completely accessible as I am trying to reach compliance with the …
WCAG AA Compliance and Card Patterns
Question on product cards and WCAG AA compliance.
We are specifically questioning the link styles of this clickable cards—which take you to a new page.
Each card you see has a focus + hover state for the title to underline.
Callout A:…
The 5 Traits of an Ethical Freelance Web Designer
Ethics are often very personal, and what I find acceptable may not sit so well with you and vice-versa. But there are some general traits that most designers can agree on.
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When to ask for login?
I own an online store for video games and use the Stripe API for handling payments.
This is the current order of events: Add to cart → Checkout → Enter Card Info → Charge → Download Item. To battle piracy, I recently installed a login page…
8 Free Resources to Help Web Designers with GDPR Compliance
We have a selection of helpful resources that you can use to bring your websites up to GDPR compliance. Remember, GDPR applies to everybody.
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Distinguishing aria-live speech from UI accessible names
We just ran our first user test of an accessible UI prototype with blind and partially-sighted testers. In spite of my efforts to follow the various recommendations and WCAG specifications, there were major issues.
By far the greatest of …
What do you call tooltips that stay on hover?
I am trying to create a style guide and have two types of tooltips and am having a hard time finding a semantic naming for them.
Type 1 – Stays if you hover over the tooltip, so that you can include links. This type is to include informat…
Users’ attention to minimized video
We do know autoplaying videos is bad.
When users arrive at a webpage, they don’t appreciate being surprised by video or audio content that begins playing without their consent. Video, and the accompanying audio, can confuse or distract…