Tagged ‘article’

Designing a time input backed by research

Material Design text fields are badly designed

Stopping Chrome from ignoring autocomplete=off

Avoiding tab styles for navigation

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

Bidirectional scrolling: what’s not to like?

The trouble with mailto email links and what to do instead

Form design: multiple inputs versus one input

6 reasons why toast messages are a bad idea and what to do instead

Building an accessible autocomplete control

Building trust as a designer

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

Where to put buttons on forms

6 reasons why tooltips are a bad idea and what to do instead

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

In defence of graceful degradation and where progressive enhancement comes in

The problem with web components

Semantic HTML and ARIA explained

User interfaces: hiding content should be a last resort

Form design: handling optional fields

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

But sometimes buttons look like links

4 steps to design fast experiences

9 reasons why live form validation is a bad idea and what to do instead

Float labels are problematic

The problem with atomic CSS

Stop using device breakpoints

11 things to consider when designing for everyone

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

14 reasons why placeholders are problematic 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

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

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