Bento Break 16 – July 30, 2021

A wild Bento Break 16 appears. This Bento focuses just on design work. Enjoy! Meta theme management A nice deep dive into the new updates to meta theme. Images are too complex Image expectations essentially require that we automate. That sucks. Frankentoon’s design schoolThese guys are putting out great work

Bento Break 15 – July 23, 2021

The slightly belated Bento Break 15 is finally here. Data viz and a11y explorations by Apple, and some innovative artist work. Apple’s Accessible Data Viz This is the next unstandardized frontier in accessibility Designing for cognitive needs Some nice practical decisions A deeper data dive Apple’s Dev Docs go deeper into audible cues for data […]

Bento Break 14 – July 16, 2021

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 […]

Web Captions 1 – History and Formats

​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 […]

Uncommon Design Tokens

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 […]