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Typography for Developers is Live!

Typography for Developers is Live!

Thanks to everyone who came out and saw the talk at RailsConf. We're launching Typography for Developers today, and the code RAILSCONF25 will get you a discount for the next week or so. See more and sign up here!

Typography in UX: Best Practices Guide

Typography in UX: Best Practices Guide

Explore the essential role of typography in enhancing user experience, readability, and accessibility in digital design.

Type Is Design @ RailsConf 2021

Type Is Design @ RailsConf 2021

This is the presentation from the all-remote RailsConf 2021. It's effectively the entire Type module from the DeveloperUX Master Course. The written word is the medium through which most information exchanges hands in the tools we build. Digital letterforms can help or hinder the ability for people to

Artifical Intelligence and the Future of UX

This was partially written as an answer to a Quora Question [https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-think-AI-will-impact-the-UX-design-world/answer/John-Athayde] > How do you think AI will impact the UX design world? We are already seeing the beginnings of this with chat bot interaction, voice interaction, and augmented reality. In the short

Conversational Interfaces

The Pronoun Game

What happens when I click “my messages”? I mean, I assume it means “my, as in me the user’s messages” but the computer is saying “my messages”. Shouldn’t it be saying “your messages” since they’re mine? And so has gone many a design pin-up reviewing screens and

Why Not Use Salesforce? and Iterating Towards Success

In the course of championing internal systems, you'll run into a manager who will rightfully ask: Why don't we just use Salesforce? or, if you're working with certain types of individuals: I simply can't work unless it's in Salesforce. If

Internal Apps: A Different User Paradigm

Client-facing work is a complex beast. The designer must create something that can be understood quickly and will achieve the goals of the site-owner for a broad range of users. For e-commerce, this goal is typically for a potential customer to complete a purchase flow. For various online services, it&

An Invocation

Internal tools and systems have become increasingly important to the operation of companies in recent years, and more and more companies are building custom solutions to solve their unique problems as they bring products and services to market. Often, internal tools get as much design love as their development team