If you haven’t heard, Microsoft recently announced Windows 11, a free upgrade for Windows 10 users. After seeing the event, here were my Windows 11 design impressions. Aesthetic It’s clear that they’ve spent a ton of time redesigning the core look, but it also feels like the natural (or ‘borrowed’) result of recent design trends. […]
A fresh new Bento Break 14 is here. Come get your accessibility, art, and general news morsels and enjoy! WebAim Screen Reader survey 9 The latest results are in. Who’s using what where. Freedom Phone? I hope it lives up to the tracking-free hype. Lots of skeptics on this one. Your app isn’t special More […]
While compiling a video recently for my company’s design site, I was flagged for forgetting a web captions file. Being both an accessibility advocate and having never created one of these assets before, I did some research and manually crafted one for the minute-long piece. It was fascinating. It’s practically never talked about in the […]
Bento Break 13 breezes in. Color, mental health, games, and artworks that make me happy on this relaxing week of vacation. Gris An inexpensive and beautiful game Becoming Minimalist I find this refreshing Color harmony Spending time thinking about this recently
What’s the difference between a design system, style guide, or a pattern library? Find out in my latest Pega Community collab article.
Bento Break 12 busts into the big time! Accessibility tips, cool tools, and lots of great artwork on Deviant Art this week. Accessible Speaking Best practices from Deque Microsoft’s Immersive Reader Very nice tool Vocal remover Seems pretty nifty
If you’ve worked on design systems at all, more than likely you’ve heard of design tokens. If you haven’t heard of design tokens, they are the essence of what makes your system feel unique, often stored as variables in some sort of tech-agnostic format like JSON. Even this site uses a form of design tokens […]
