Robin Rendle

In this oldie but goodie, Hampus Sethfors digs into why disabled buttons are troubling for usability reasons and he details one example where this was pretty annoying for him. The same has happened to me recently where I clicked a button that looked like a secondary button and... nothing happened.

Here’s another reason why disabled buttons are bad though:

Disabled buttons usually have call to action words on them, like “Send”, “Order” or “Add friend”. Because of that, they often

Here’s a wonderful reminder from Stephanie Stimac about web performance. She writes about a recent experience of moving to an area with an unreliable network and how this caused problems for her as she tried to figure out what was happening during a power blackout:

Assuming all of your customers are living the same life, with the same privilege, with the same access to fast internet and data is the quickest way to ensure you’re excluding some of them and

The team at Stripe explores how they’re refining their color palette to make it more accessible and legible for users across all their products and interfaces. Not only that but the team built a wonderful and yet entirely bonkers app for figuring out the ideal range of colors that they needed.

We built a web interface to allow us to visualize and manipulate our color system using perceptually uniform color models. The tool gave us an immediate feedback loop while

Here’s a new book by Andrew Couldwell all about design systems and I'm looking forward to reading the book because it looks like his experience will offer a bunch of insightful thoughts and advice.… Read article

Here’s a fabulous CSS trick from Bradley Taunt in which he shows how to make tables work on mobile with just a little bit of extra code. He styles each table row into a card that looks something like this:

See the Pen
Responsive Tables #2.5: Flexbox by Bradley Taunt (@bradleytaunt)
on CodePen.… Read article

Here’s one of the best essays I’ve ever read about why progressive web apps are important, how they work, and what impact they have on a business:

PWAs are powerful, effective, fast and app-like.

It’s hard to imagine a mobile web property that could not be significantly improved via PWA implementation. They can also potentially eliminate the need for many “vanity” native apps that exist today.

My only small disagreement with this piece is their use of the term “mobile … Read article

Here’s a great post by Ahmad Shadeed on making sure that clickable areas in our interfaces are, well, clickable. He writes about making sure that links, buttons and other elements meet accessibility standards for both touch and mouse, too.… Read article