Here are the many, many reasons why you should not open links in a new window (or tab).
Regardless of what accessibility conformance level you target, do not arbitrarily open links in a new window or tab. If you are required to do so anyway, inform users in text.
When you think of heraldry what comes to mind is probably knights in shining armor, damsels in distress, jousting, that sort of thing. Medieval stuff. But I prefer to think of it as one of the earliest design systems.
This totally checks out.
Another take on the scrolling navigation pattern. However you feel about the implementation details, it’s got to better than the “teenage tidying” method of shoving everything behind a hamburger icon.
A great selection of links about design systems, collected and categorised.
This is a wonderfully in-depth interactive explainer on touch target sizes, with plenty of examples.
I’ve been having some really interesting chats with Brian about tabs, markup, progressive enhancement and accessibility. Here’s a braindump of his current thinking which is well worth perusing.
Business, sustainability, and inclusivity.
Can you have too much semantics?
The difference between inclusive design and accessibility.
Aiming for originality and creativity in alt text.
Five more articles on modern responsive design to close out the course.