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					A Content Model Is Not a Design System
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A Content Model Is Not a Design System

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Do you remember when having a great website was enough? Now, people are getting answers from Siri, Google search snippets, and mobile apps, not just our websites.…

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					Designing for the Unexpected
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Designing for the Unexpected

A List Apart: The Full Feed ·A List Apart: The Full Feed·2 months ago
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I’m not sure when I first heard this quote, but it’s something that has stayed with me over the years. How do you create services for situations you can’t imagine? Or design products that work on devices yet to be invented?…

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					Voice Content and Usability
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Voice Content and Usability

A List Apart: The Full Feed ·A List Apart: The Full Feed·2 months ago
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We’ve been having conversations for thousands of years. Whether to convey information, conduct transactions, or simply to check in on one another, people have yammered away, chattering and gesticulating, through spoken conversation for countless…

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					Sustainable Web Design, An Excerpt
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Sustainable Web Design, An Excerpt

A List Apart: The Full Feed ·A List Apart: The Full Feed·2 months ago
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In the 1950s, many in the elite running community had begun to believe it wasn’t possible to run a mile in less than four minutes. Runners had been attempting it since the late 19th century and were beginning to draw the conclusion that the human body…

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					Design for Safety, An Excerpt
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Design for Safety, An Excerpt

A List Apart: The Full Feed ·A List Apart: The Full Feed·2 months ago
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Antiracist economist Kim Crayton says that “intention without strategy is chaos.” We’ve discussed how our biases, assumptions, and inattention toward marginalized and vulnerable groups lead to dangerous and unethical tech—but what, specifically, do we…

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					How to Sell UX Research with Two Simple Questions
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How to Sell UX Research with Two Simple Questions

A List Apart: The Full Feed ·A List Apart: The Full Feed·2 months ago
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Do you find yourself designing screens with only a vague idea of how the things on the screen relate to the things elsewhere in the system? Do you leave stakeholder meetings with unclear directives that often seem to contradict previous conversations?…

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					Breaking Out of the Box
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Breaking Out of the Box

A List Apart: The Full Feed ·A List Apart: The Full Feed·2 months ago
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CSS is about styling boxes. In fact, the whole web is made of boxes, from the browser viewport to elements on a page. But every once in a while a new feature comes along that makes us rethink our design approach.…

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					Designers, (Re)define Success First
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Designers, (Re)define Success First

A List Apart: The Full Feed ·A List Apart: The Full Feed·2 months ago
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About two and a half years ago, I introduced the idea of daily ethical design. It was born out of my frustration with the many obstacles to achieving design that’s usable and equitable; protects people’s privacy, agency, and focus; benefits society; and…

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					Mobile-First CSS: Is It Time for a Rethink?
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Mobile-First CSS: Is It Time for a Rethink?

A List Apart: The Full Feed ·A List Apart: The Full Feed·2 months ago
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The mobile-first design methodology is great—it focuses on what really matters to the user, it’s well-practiced, and it’s been a common design pattern for years. So developing your CSS mobile-first should also be great, too…right? Well, not necessarily.…

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					Personalization Pyramid: A Framework for Designing with User Data
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Personalization Pyramid: A Framework for Designing with User Data

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As a UX professional in today’s data-driven landscape, it’s increasingly likely that you’ve been asked to design a personalized digital experience, whether it’s a public website, user portal, or native application.…

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					Humility: An Essential Value
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Humility: An Essential Value

A List Apart: The Full Feed ·A List Apart: The Full Feed·2 months ago
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Humility, a designer’s essential value—that has a nice ring to it. What about humility, an office manager’s essential value? Or a dentist’s? Or a librarian’s? They all sound great.…

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I am a creative.

A List Apart: The Full Feed ·A List Apart: The Full Feed·2 months ago
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I am a creative. What I do is alchemy. It is a mystery. I do not so much do it, as let it be done through me. I am a creative. Not all creative people like this label. Not all see themselves this way. Some creative people see science in what they do.…

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Opportunities for AI in Accessibility

A List Apart: The Full Feed ·A List Apart: The Full Feed·2 months ago
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In reading Joe Dolson’s recent piece on the intersection of AI and accessibility, I absolutely appreciated the skepticism that he has for AI in general as well as for the ways that many have been using it.…

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The Wax and the Wane of the Web

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I offer a single bit of advice to friends and family when they become new parents: When you start to think that you’ve got everything figured out, everything will change.…

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					To Ignite a Personalization Practice, Run this Prepersonalization Workshop
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To Ignite a Personalization Practice, Run this Prepersonalization Workshop

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Picture this. You’ve joined a squad at your company that’s designing new product features with an emphasis on automation or AI. Or your company has just implemented a personalization engine. Either way, you’re designing with data. Now what?…

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					User Research Is Storytelling
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User Research Is Storytelling

A List Apart: The Full Feed ·A List Apart: The Full Feed·2 months ago
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Ever since I was a boy, I’ve been fascinated with movies. I loved the characters and the excitement—but most of all the stories. I wanted to be an actor. And I believed that I’d get to do the things that Indiana Jones did and go on exciting adventures.…

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From Beta to Bedrock: Build Products that Stick.

A List Apart: The Full Feed ·A List Apart: The Full Feed·2 months ago
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As a product builder over too many years to mention, I've lost count of the number of times I've seen promising ideas go from zero to hero in a few weeks, only to fizzle out within months.…

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An Holistic Framework for Shared Design Leadership

A List Apart: The Full Feed ·A List Apart: The Full Feed·2 months ago
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Picture this: You’re in a meeting room at your tech company, and two people are having what looks like the same conversation about the same design problem. One is talking about whether the team has the right skills to tackle it.…

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Design Dialects: Breaking the Rules, Not the System

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"Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a totally coherent system bound to context and behavior." — Kenneth L. Pike The web has accents. So should our design systems.…

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Design for Amiability: Lessons from Vienna

A List Apart: The Full Feed ·A List Apart: The Full Feed·2 months ago
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Today’s web is not always an amiable place. Sites greet you with a popover that demands assent to their cookie policy, and leave you with Taboola ads promising “One Weird Trick!” to cure your ailments.…

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