Category: DESIGN DIGESTED

The intersection between sustainability and accessibility, World Braille Day, the state of mobile UX and more.

As the end the year approaches, it’s time to slow down.

Classic HCI demos, going beyond Nielsen’s Usability Heuristics, Apple’s The Greatest and more.

Why everything looks the same, the limits of contrast checkers, changing perspectives over accessibility and more.

How technology is shaping the physical world, spying appliances, dyslexia-friendly typefaces and more.

The difficulty of travelling for disabled people, the history of user interfaces, carbon footprinting and more.

The accessibility of Netflix’s subtitles, racist tech, small businesses in Tokyo and more.

Deadly distractions, designing for modes, the problem with the Metaverse, new deceptive patterns on Instagram and more.

Design is evolving, correcting designs of the past, why we ignore the obvious, building a more honest internet and why Greta Thunberg doesn’t want you to talk about her.

The last design you’ll ever make, designing for the autistic community, cautionary tales from cryptoland, the problem with Nielsen Norman Group videos and more.

Discover the designers misguided concerns about disabled bodies; the future of accessibility standards; the infinite scroll effect; the influence of 80s cult phemon Max Headroom and more.

Stop bastardizing design with false empathy, fast fashion and sustainability, gender pay gap, and more.

Stop solving problems in design, drop ’The Lean Startup’, what to do instead of counting clicks, and oral history of Beastie Boys’ artwork, and more.

This week: celebrating the web standards with Blue Beanie Day, accessibility, the current state of checkout UX, the meaning of Ikea names, and more.

This week: how to prevent user errors, the curb-cut effect, how creepy is that device, and users adapting to technology that wasn’t designed with them in mind.

This week, I gathered articles that made me see this phenomenon from a different perspective. Time to reframe. And pockets. Women need pockets.

This week: how to protect ourselves against the Hook model, UX Theatre, deceptive patterns, and circular economy.

This week, tired of seeing social media-related articles, I’m sharing older ones as an inspiration to follow your own path.

This week: inclusive language, the work of women designers, and the healing power of photography.

In the first instalment of the Design, Digested series since March, I share with you three reasons why the UX industry is currently broken.

I’m sure you’ve encountered many posts about which tool is best for wireframing. Yet, one of UX designers’ most important and basic tool is sketching. If you know how to convey your ideas and concepts through sketches, the rest follows.

The following articles and resources are a good start to understand how biases influence our work and what to pay attention to when starting a new project.

Recently, I read a couple of compelling blog post about deceptive patterns in user interfaces copy. An essential read to understand what they are, how they’re used to deceive people and how to recognise them.

This week we look into the toxic dogmatism of digital design, how to design less, how to be more effective and more.

The new instalment of the digest is dedicated to the elimination of violence against women. Join the conversation and spread the word.

On the design inspiration new instalment: the role of fear in our lives and how it affects decision-making, how bias in AI happens and the legacy of “giant” of Italian design Enzo Mari.

After a two-month hiatus, the design inspiration series is back with a focus on social media content moderation issues, how products get complicated and how a few companies are redesigning capitalism.

Design inspiration series, all-women edition. Facial recognition technology imbalances, your data is you, benevolent sexism and more.

On week number 10 of my design inspiration series, I share resources about inclusive design, problematic social media facts, and a great music project.

Design inspiration series. Why Facebook can’t beat hate, a safe haven for press freedom, a game to recognise disinformation.

In this inspiration series: a well-known website lost community trust with a redesign that didn’t take into account its users with disabilities.

Design inspiration series. Biased AI, tricks to overcome smartphone addiction and ten arguments for deleting social media accounts.

Design inspiration series. This week: four anti-racism lessons, Don Norman doesn’t believe in empathic design and working in tech as a woman.

Design inspiration series. This week: diversity bias in the tech industry; the gender data gap; anti-racism reading list and bad doors.

Design inspiration series. Black women in UX, how to foster creativity, and the time David Bowie scolded MTV.

Design inspiration series. This week, language and storytelling, usability, mobile approach, responsive design at 10 and more.

Design inspiration series. This week: design community solidarity, designing for belonging, equality and diversity, cross-cultural design and more.

First instalment of my design inspiration series. This week: Killing Eve set design, accessibility on social media, bad design vs good design, and more.