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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Orchestrating Experiences: Pinning Down Touchpoints
Orchestrating experiences requires coordination across different disciplines. The digitization of products and services (as well as growing interest in customer-centered approaches) has led to the language of marketing, customer experience, and service design mixing with digital and physical product design. Touchpoints represent fundamental building blocks of support for customer journeys that cut across time, space, and channels.
Orchestrating Experiences: Pinning Down Touchpoints
Orchestrating experiences requires coordination across different disciplines. The digitization of products and services (as well as growing interest in customer-centered approaches) has led to the language of marketing, customer experience, and service design mixing with digital and physical product design. Touchpoints represent fundamental building blocks of support for customer journeys that cut across time, space, and channels.
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…
Tiny Copy, Big Impact: How Microcopy Helps Your Users and Helps Your Brand
Small things can make a big difference, and this is especially true in web content. The shortest of phrases and even single words—coupled with how they are designed and where they are or are not placed on a page—can affect a user’s experience. This is where microcopy comes in. These small snippets of text can help guide users through a process, such as completing a form or placing an order. But, so often, this important content is an afterthought.
Tiny Copy, Big Impact: How Microcopy Helps Your Users and Helps Your Brand
Small things can make a big difference, and this is especially true in web content. The shortest of phrases and even single words—coupled with how they are designed and where they are or are not placed on a page—can affect a user’s experience. This is where microcopy comes in. These small snippets of text can help guide users through a process, such as completing a form or placing an order. But, so often, this important content is an afterthought.