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Plain English: The A - Z of alternative words

Great UX requires great frontend development

Substance and Style

Appearance and attitude

Development by decree

Simple made easy

The cult of the complex

Death to bullshit

Fixed positioning is a nightmare

The hamburger doesn't work

Context over consistency

Modalz Modalz Modalz

How to run a design crit

The web's grain

Kill the UX designer

There is no UX, there is only UX

Research heresies

Doing presentations

The Basecamp Guide to Internal Communication

Why do remote meetings suck so much?

Why toggle switches suck (and what to do instead)

I took David Hamill’s UX challenge (how did I do?)

Don’t use the maxlength attribute to stop users from exceeding the limit

Figma prototypes vs HTML prototypes

Don’t use paracetamol to fix bad UX

Why Anthony Hobday’s sentence-style form is bad UX (and what to do instead)

Sliders degrade UX (so do this instead)

3 common examples of button text that degrades UX and how to rewrite them so they’re clear

7 reasons to replace advanced search with filters so users can easily find what they need

3 questions to evaluate design patterns and avoid unnecessary work that degrades UX

The problem with disabling paste and what to do instead

5 key design system elements to build trust and maximise uptake

4 design principles I use every day to avoid bad UX and create products that work for everyone

The problem with input masks and what to do instead

The problem with sticky menus that appear on scroll and what to do instead

4 common mistakes UI/UX designers make when trying to help users spot required form fields (and what user research shows is better)

The problem with automatically focusing the first input and what to do instead

The problem with nested fieldsets and how to avoid them

The billion dollar unsubscribe link

The problem with disabled buttons and what to do instead

The problem with sticky menus and what to do instead

GOV.UK Prototype Kit Bootcamp

Form Design Mastery

Design newsletter

Page title conventions

Designing a time input

Material Design Text Fields Are Badly Designed

Material Design text fields are badly designed

Things To Expect From A Smashing Workshop: Form Design Masterclass

Stopping Chrome from ignoring autocomplete=off

A few notes about A/B testing from Jared Spool

Avoiding tab styles for navigation

Interaction designers: how well do you work with developers and content designers?

Bidirectional scrolling: what’s not to like?

Pressing back after deleting something

The trouble with mailto email links and what to do instead

A quick crit of HEY email

Form design: multiple inputs versus one input

Routing conventions

Rules for cookie banners

Tips for running a good remote meeting

3 little rules for good team communication

The problem with toast messages and what to do instead

Building an accessible autocomplete control

Form design patterns webinar, course update, January resolutions

Building trust as a designer

JavaScript isn’t always available and it’s not the user’s fault

Contributing the bank details pattern to the GOV.UK Design System

Where to put buttons on forms

Launching a service, contribution the bank details pattern, design system community building

The problem with tooltips and what to do instead

Form design: from zero to hero all in one blog post

Designing the child funeral fund service

Defining graceful degradation, Patterns Day, journey mapping, question protocol mapping

In defence of graceful degradation and where progressive enhancement comes in

The problem with web components

Caseworking meetup notes, design system uptake, writing is hard, soft skills are hard

Semantic HTML and ARIA explained

Getting agreement on big decisions, versioning prototype routes, pair writing

Why, How, and When to Use Semantic HTML and ARIA

Prototyping versioning, ConCon8, beyond screens

Prototype versioning, namespacing design systems, discussing a header component

Prototype kit extensions, small checkboxes and radio buttons, multi-select autocomplete

Semantic HTML, design crits, GOV.UK form components in Angular, pattern sharing

React is not a library, Angular generates wrappers, semantic HTML, defining UX

Writing workflow, context switching and some useful links

Angular forms, hiding elements, boring development, responsive design mindsets

Extending the GOV.UK Design System, progressive enhancement, naming patterns

User interfaces: hiding content should be a last resort

Form builders, design system thoughts, new design system components

Handling links in Angular, buttons versus links, design system architecture, journey mapping

Defining interaction design, scoping a rich text editor component, links inside SPAs, fudgability

How to avoid optional form fields with branching questions

Form design: when to use the number input

Thinking differently about progressive enhancement

Content is the user experience and what the deuce is content design?

Buttons shouldn't have a hand cursor part 2

Progressive enhancement explained simply

Designing digital services for solicitors

Designing a case working system for the judiciary

Designing a design system

What the failure of New Coke can teach us about research and design

But sometimes buttons look like links

4 steps to design fast experiences

The problem with live validation and what to do instead

Designing for colour-blind users

The problem with float labels and what to do instead

Better form design: one thing per page

The problem with atomic CSS

Stop using device breakpoints

Universal design checklist

Designing an appointment booking service

Don’t initialise Javascript automagically

Semantic class names: are you being too generic or too specific?

Browsers are different but so what?

Making view templates as dumb as possible

Buttons shouldn't have a hand cursor

Always use a label

Improving UX for colour-blind users

The problem with placeholders and what to do instead

How we cut our MVP in half to launch KIDLY

Everything I know about speaking at conferences

Embracing simplicity

Design is not just how it looks

Designing Kidly

Hover menus are problematic

Why we stopped breaking down stories into tasks

7 reasons why infinite scrolling is a bad idea

The hidden cost of one bad design

Designing honestly for the web

Designing a responsive menu without a hamburger

Progressively enhanced Javascript

Addendum to the boring front-end developer

The disadvantages of Javascript polyfills

The disadvantages of CSS preprocessors

The role of the Front-end Developer

Technical wanking

Redesigning Just Eat's checkout and search results page

Don't use AJAX for personalised content

The boring front-end developer

Select boxes shouldn’t submit on change

JavaScript inheritance

The problem with single page applications

Javascript namespacing

Forms with multiple submit buttons are problematic