In the summer of 2024, I became co-chair of a working group of expert researchers who came together to determine how best to perform accessibility testing with people with cognitive disabilities....
AI-generated prototypes often don't deliver consistently decent results because of tiny inconsistencies scattered all across a design system. I's decisions made but not documented, hard-coded values...
Everyone has a creative spark in them. Some bring their ideas to life with digital tools, others capture the perfect moment with a camera or love to grab pen and paper to create little doodles or...
The HTTP Archive Web Almanac has been tracking color contrast failures for years. The numbers have barely moved. After half a decade of design system tooling, accessibility linters, and entire...
This was originally written and published by Christophe Spy (Director of Engineering, Medium) as an internal Medium Eng post. Desired outcomes (what “good” looks like) 🙏🏻 These are the kinds of...
This article is a sponsored by ProtoPie There’s a moment in almost every usability session where a participant pauses at the login screen, types something, and glances up: checking whether they’re...
Many companies think they know fairly well what their users want and need, and how they make their decisions. Yet most of the time these are merely big assumptions and big hunches — with little real...
You know that thing where you have a grid of cards, and you want them to fade in one after another? That staggered cascade effect. Looks great. Should be simple. And yet every time I’ve built it, the...
HTML images just got better, with the subtlest change to your codebase Photo by Adi Suyatno I know what you’re thinking. Scott, I landed on Medium on a small but not mobile-small display and the...
In the high-stakes economy of today, the cost of a friction-heavy interface is no longer just “lost clicks”, but potentially millions in wasted engineering spend and lost business value. As a veteran...
In the first part of this series , we talked about the Decision Node Audit . We mapped out the internal workings of our AI system to pinpoint the exact moments it makes decisions based on...
Last October, I was sitting in a hotel room in Lisbon, the night before I was supposed to demo a project management tool my team had spent four months building. The hotel Wi-Fi was doing that thing...
This article is a sponsored by MacPaw Your grandmother’s vacuum was a trusty but ugly workhorse hidden in a dark closet. Dyson turned that practical tool into an aspirational product, one you love...
More interfaces now render while the response is still being generated. The UI begins in one state, then updates as more data comes in. You see this in chat apps, logs, transcription tools, and other...
May has a way of sneaking in with longer days, softer light, and that first real hint of summer in the air. It’s the season of fresh ideas and just enough energy to start something new , or finally...