Reading Time: 4 minutes The journey I outline here taught me to treat Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools as systems and not as a loosely controlled and overly narrowed shortcut. These are powerful tools we believe we’re building when we’re really only setting up guardrails to stay in the right conversation. Behind each, there’s an LLM with a World of […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ditch condensed fonts that hurt readability. Embrace spacing for a more accessible, inclusive web designed for humans, and not toilet paper.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Customer first strategies aim to delight people so inclusive design is our priority. Accessible products improve usability, and inclusion offers delight.
Reading Time: 2 minutes After years of admiring and learning from the sidelines, I’ve created a CodePen account. It’s a surprisingly creative and fun space, and I note a problem with distraction.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Content design thinking for success messages: How to reframe success as a natural outcome of our digital services with examples to get you writing successfully.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Unlock the power of inclusive avatars! Discover why alt text for avatars is essential for accessibility, SEO, and richer user experiences.
Reading Time: 2 minutes A Chat GPT tool ignored my UI writing guideline to replace “view” with active terms for calls to action like, “Read” and “Open”. When challenged, it recanted.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Designers who believe inclusive content is “over-empathising” don’t understand the problem. We’re designing for all abilities and not a disability.
Reading Time: 6 minutes Like Sydik (2007), I believe alternative texts are the litmus test of accessible design. So is the Back to Top link, and its inclusive design is open to debate.
Reading Time: 6 minutes Carnivores, pescatarians, vegetarians, and vegans are offered very different experiences from omnivores in cafes and restaurants. It’s equal to discrimination.
Reading Time: 10 minutes Create inclusive content that shifts our user experience (UX) beyond accessibility. Try replacing ableist and vague content to add inclusion and precision.
Reading Time: 10 minutes My Basic User Journey (BUJ) content tool guides our design thinking of digital information and flow between our user and our business. Is it still useful today?
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is a tense comparison between habit and writing standards. We’re directed to avoid passive writing. The conclusion is that, “has been” is a has been now.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Content design is an empathetic UI and UX craft. Presenting a price reduction from $y to $x needs work with inclusive HTML and CSS. It’s not all done in Figma.
Reading Time: 4 minutes A post featuring content written by an Ai. It is clear, cohesive, and diverse, lacking depth, emotion, and originality. Ai will evolve to create richer content!
Reading Time: 8 minutes Arrays of Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary interactions are a familiar pattern. Does their content, taxonomic, and visual design assist or compound our experience?
Reading Time: 5 minutes HTML offers a choice of emphasis for individual words and blocks of content. Let’s create an inclusive experience of emphasis beyond using an em tag.
Reading Time: 7 minutes The native HTML list nomenclature and a lack of punctuation are a barrier to some of our readers. A little CSS and JavaScript improves the inclusive experience.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Browsing my favourite YouTube channels, I found an ideal lunchtime project. Online Tutorials featured a snatty CSS image erection effect. It made me think of a 4-fold flyer I created for an art show. It was ideal to play with.
Reading Time: 23 minutes Legalese and compliance copy is the pillar of trust when customers agree to our terms. It’s the specialist language of law. How do we make legalese accessible?