That Design’s Not Done

Entry categories Design

Another short one this week, as my UXPA talk is getting closer, and I’m on kid-duty as I write this. Figured I’d try something a little different this time, talking about a design that’s not done. Your design looks fine, the design looks great, and you may think it’s time to celebrate, but hold those […]

Startup Versus Enterprise Design

Entry categories Design

One of the things I’ve been thinking about this week as I’m preparing for my upcoming UXPA Boston 2021 talk is this… What makes a successful Enterprise Designer? Is it different from a Startup designer? Having done both, I figured I’d share my experience about the differences. Startup Design I started my career in a […]

Gotchas of Accessibility

Entry categories Accessibility

Recently, there was a Twitter thread going around asking what accessibility fact you’ve learned recently. I responded with a few, but thought I’d take it a bit further here. I’ve been practicing accessible design for almost ten years now, and there are a lot of gotchas of accessibility I’ve picked up. Design crime – Designing […]

Guest post “Accessible Design Systems” now live

Entry categories Accessibility • Guest post

I was honored to write on “Design Systems for Figma” recently. In the article, I explain some of the ways we tackled accessibilty in Pega’s latest design system Cosmos. I hope the article is as fun for you to read as it was for me to write! Read “Accessible Design Systems: Look Good While Doing […]

Screen Readers and Image Metadata

Entry categories Accessibility

If you’ve ever used WordPress (and there’s a pretty good chance you have), you may have noticed that they provide some convenient, albeit confusing, options on ways to add secondary content to your images. So, how do these settings affect screen readers and image metadata? I figured I’d dive into this and other methods of […]