Design Systems and Systems Designwhats the difference?Ive had several recruiters read my resumé about my experience in Design Systems and contact me about jobs. Only to find out they were hiring for people with Systems Design experience. Id like to outline what both topics are and help people understand the qualities of each.Design SystemsAn engineer who works on a design system typically has som...

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Icon fonts are a popular solution to a common CSS problem; how to incorporate web icons into your website design in an efficient, fast-loading way. With plenty of services available to make choosing and using an icon font easy, you dont have to create your own from scratch. Icon fonts are all over the internet. […]

I admit I've held in a lot of pent-up frustration about the direction web development has taken the past few years. There is the complexity. It requires a steep learning curve. It focuses more on more configuration than it does development. That's not exactly great news for folks like me who consider themselves to be more on the design side of the front-end spectrum. I remember grimacing the firs...

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, […]

UX UI. User experience is more than a user interface.Edited image from 1950 DC Comic PosterUX is the new black and there is no wanna-be-cool company ignoring the term. Due to this, over the past few years, UX has become some kind of a hodgepodge term.Formally, UX stands for User Experience and according to ISO 9241210 user experience is defined as a persons perceptions and responses that result f...

“Designing with accessibility in mind” is becoming a catch phrase in UX design. As the industry continues to grow, designers are becoming…Continue reading on UX Collective »

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