A look at the risks of relying on a purely graphical icon for interface actions. When in doubt, label it.
From the days of Xerox PARC:
In your garage organization, there’s always a bucket for miscellaneous. You’ve got nuts and bolts and screws and nails, and then, stuff, miscellaneous stuff. That’s kind of what the hamburger menu button was.
Same as it ever was.
A collection of collections.
This site is dedicated to compiling and sharing useful resources for Designers and UI Developers.
A lovely little tour of eleven ubiquitous icons.
You might not need (much) JavaScript for these common interface patterns.
While we all love the power and flexibility JS provides, we should also respect it, and our users, by limiting its use to only what it needs to do.
Yes! Client-side JavaScript should do what only client-side JavaScript can do.
I like the idea of adding this to personal websites:
Mastodon shows an “Alt” button in the bottom right of images that have associated alt text. This button, when clicked, shows the alt text the author has written for the image.
Trying to get the balance right between discoverability and intrusiveness.
A problem shared is a problem halved. And the web has a big problem with awful overlays.
A presentation at An Event Apart Chicago 2019.
Writing is interface design.
Rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.