Dark hotels
A simple mapping project that overlays light pollution data with available accommodation pulled from AirBnB and Booking.com, allowing you to find places to stay that will also be great for star […]
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Time to rethink mobile-first CSS?
An interesting look at whether the current mobile-first paradigm is problematic. Ultimately, the title feels a little like click-bait; to me the solution proposed remains mobile-first, but suggests […]
A Bookmark Feed
Mastodon makes saving interesting links for later very easy, but getting these into a feed reader or note-taking service seemed impossible until I came across a neat little hosted solution.
What's new in WCAG 2.2
A complete overview of the most recent WCAG 2.2 spec as it enters RC status, including quick overviews on the most common solutions to meet each new success […]
Designing accessible data visualisations
A broad overview of the best practices involved in designing data visualisations, with heaps of additional context and excellent imagery to really drive home the issues and better solutions. The key […]
Partial Diamond Justification
A halfway solution to a design pattern that I see often, but have yet to find an easy way to implement: text that wraps so it is always fattest in the middle, and thinnest at either end.
Making writing readable
How do you make your writing as accessible as possible? Plain text – a system of simplifying the words and phrases used to reduce overall complexity – is an "easy" solution, and I've never seen […]
Missing Keywords in Lightroom
A solution for an annoying bug in Lightroom where keyword searches stopped indexing new tags.
Starling & The UX Nightmare
Starling Bank frustrates and impresses me in equal measure. Their technical solutions are magical – when they work – but their service is steeped in a privileged bias that makes them hard to truly recommend.
Web waste
A great overview of the state of the modern web from a UX and environmental perspective. Gerry notes the impact of image and videos (and JavaScript) on websites […]
The perfect block link solution
An interesting look at a "block links" at "card links": when you want large sections of HTML to be one big clickable link. It's a very common pattern and something I've done a lot, but […]
How to change the background colour of a word in InDesign
I'm using InDesign increasingly it seems and overall I really dig it, but I recently ran into a fairly simple problem that doesn't have an official solution: inline code styling. It's pretty much a […]
Light pollution map
Just a really nice resource for trying to track down good areas to see the night sky or mess around with a little […]
Writing with Pollution
The idea of Air-Ink is a very clever one, taking an approach to reducing pollution that I really like. Rather than using guilt trips or absolution, instead the team at Graviky Inc. have devised a way […]
Scoping the wrong query?
The RICG has a new fight: CSS container queries. The article's ignited discussion, beneficially. The problem is legitimate, the reasoning well argued and the solution intriguing. But something's […]