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Designing accessible color systems from Stripe
How we designed a color system with hand-picked, vibrant colors that also met standards for accessibility and contrast.
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Adarktio
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A Modern CSS Reset - Andy Bell
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Startup finance pitfalls and how to avoid them
YC Partner and CFO Kirsty Nathoo shares the most common mistakes startups make with their finances and how they can prevent them. You can find the lecture slides and transcript here: https://www.startupschool.org/videos/70 Find more Startup School and YC content at https://www.startupschool.org/library.
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Form design: from zero to hero all in one blog post by Adam Silver, designer based in London, UK.
90 percent of the problems found in forms solved in a few hundred precious words.
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"IKEA works in a very different way to everyone else"
IKEA's Marcus Engman lifts the curtain on how design process works at the world's largest furniture company in the second part of this exclusive interview
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Are bad designers hiding behind the term “UX”? - UX Collective
UX Designers have gotten so used to not being responsible for the final look of the product, that they have dangerously distanced…
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Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites
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WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera - The Verge
I dedicate this to the energy of We.
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Fast Software, the Best Software — by Craig Mod
Essay on the benefits of speedy software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability