Designing with Everyone in mind: Color & Accessibility

Designing With Everyone in Mind: Color & Accessibility

Forrest Goyer Articles, Design, UI/UX Leave a Comment

Of all the design choices we make when building a web application, color is one of the most impactful. It sets the tone, defines the brand, and guides the user’s eye. That influence is exactly why color accessibility in web design mattersโ€”when color choices arenโ€™t inclusive, they can unintentionally create barriers for users with visual impairments. Designing with color accessibility isn’t about limiting your creativity; it’s about making smart, inclusive choices that result in a better product for everyone. By focusing on contrast, redundancy, and collaboration, we can build applications that are both beautiful and usable for all.

View Transition API

Introducing the View Transition API: Your DOM’s New Best Friend!

Lawrence Chabela API Development, Articles, CSS & HTML, Design, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript 1 Comment

Tired of clunky transitions and tangled web states? Meet the View Transition API, your secret weapon for silky-smooth DOM transformations. Say hello to elegant animations and goodbye to the confusion of overlapping states. Your web pages are about to get a serious upgrade!

Think about it, page transitions aren’t all about the looks. They’re like guides, leading users through your content. And they’re not just about appearances, these transitions can also increase the perceived speed of how responsive your site feels, especially during async running tasks…

Turborepo: Turbocharging Monorepo Development

Turborepo: Turbocharging Monorepo Development

Brian Buchta Articles, JavaScript, TypeScript Leave a Comment

Software development is an ever-evolving space where languages, tools, and best practices can rapidly change based on the market. Yet there is always a race to do things faster and better than before.

Today, I will be introducing you to Turborepo, a tool that helps manage JavaScript and TypeScript monorepos by leveraging build techniques to avoid duplicate work and maximize multitasking at scale. But first, there may be a couple of questions you’re asking yourself. What is a monorepo, and why use Turborepo?

User Experience, What is it?

What is User Experience Design?

Rus Anderson Articles, Design Leave a Comment

With a well-thought-out UX design, the product will be fully flushed out before development begins. For the developers, it leads to a more streamlined development plan. For the user, it means a product that is easy to use. For stakeholders, it results in a more successful final product, which means more money saved and more money made.

In this post, Iโ€™ll explain what UX design is. Weโ€™ll cover roles and responsibilities, tools and strategies, and finally, what differentiates UX from UI design. Letโ€™s dive in!