Articles for category: News

RyanArnold

Getting Feedback

“Any comment?” is probably one of the worst ways to ask for feedback. It’s vague and open ended, and it doesn’t provide any indication of what we’re looking for. Getting good feedback starts earlier than we might expect: it starts with the request.  Article Continues Below It might seem counterintuitive to start the process of ...

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🗞 Easily improve your Web Design with AI

Hey Designers! 👋   This week we have: balanced web design sustainable websites 5 css tips easier layouts and more… Symmetry is the simplest way to achieve balance, but balance and symmetry and not the same things! Matt Brunton encourages you to stop centering everything, and shows you why and how to create asymmetrical layouts. ...

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Optimising SVGs

What’s the best way to make your SVGs faster, simpler, and more manageable? In this article, pioneering author and web designer Andy Clarke explains the process he relies on to prepare, optimise, and structure SVGs for animation and beyond. SVG animations take me back to the Hanna-Barbera cartoons I watched as a kid. Shows like ...

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Designing for the Unexpected

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? Article Continues Below Flash, Photoshop, and responsive design#section2 When I first started designing websites, ...

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🗞 Easily improve your Web Design with AI

Hey Designers! 👋   This week we have: balanced web design sustainable websites 5 css tips easier layouts and more… Symmetry is the simplest way to achieve balance, but balance and symmetry and not the same things! Matt Brunton encourages you to stop centering everything, and shows you why and how to create asymmetrical layouts. ...

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Why Non-Native Content Designers Improve Global UX

Ensuring your product communicates clearly to a global audience is not just about localisation. Even for products that have a proper localisation process, English often remains the default language for UI and communications. This article focuses on how you can make English content clear and inclusive for non-native users. Oleksii offers a practical guide based ...

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Voice Content and Usability

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 generations. Only in the last few millennia have we begun to commit our conversations to writing, and only in the last ...

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🗞 Easily improve your Web Design with AI

Hey Designers! 👋   This week we have: balanced web design sustainable websites 5 css tips easier layouts and more… Symmetry is the simplest way to achieve balance, but balance and symmetry and not the same things! Matt Brunton encourages you to stop centering everything, and shows you why and how to create asymmetrical layouts. ...

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The Forgotten Art Of Developing Web Apps For Feature Phones

Learn why flip phones still matter in 2025, and how you can build and launch web apps for these tiny devices. Flip phones aren’t dead. On the contrary, 200+ million non-smartphones are sold annually. That’s roughly equivalent to the number of iPhones sold in 2024. Even in the United States, millions of flip phones are ...

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Sustainable Web Design, An Excerpt

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 simply wasn’t built for the task.  Article Continues Below ...