#Design #Approaches
Mobile and desktop recognizability · How much design variation is acceptable? https://ilo.im/165v3r

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#Layout #Content #Website #Mobile #Desktop #ResponsiveDesign #ProductDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign

Nonprofits experience what I call the mid-sized mission gap—that frustrating space where 77% of nonprofits cite budget constraints as their primary technology barrier, yet you're actually spending more per staff member on tech than bigger organizations.

Read more https://lttr.ai/AhRp4

Do I have typography experts somewhere in my reach? It has happened a few times to me, that while I work with ripped fonts for making a design, their leading was quite normal, but when working with the actual font-files from the foundry, they seem to be severely overextended, even reaching out of their characters bounding box.

Is this some sort of regularity in the way that fonts are designed for print or something? Or is that a mistake?

Oh, am 2. August gab es einen weltweiten "HTML Day".

Aus Deutschland sehe ich Hamburg und Berlin vertreten.

Schade, dass ich davon zu spät erfahre!

html.energy/html-day/2025/index.html

#HTML #HTMLenergy #Webdesign #SmallWeb

#Design #Pitfalls
Horizontal scrolling containers? · How they can compromise content accessibility https://ilo.im/165tdt

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#Accessibility #Scrolling #Localization #Content #Website #ProductDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #WebDev #Frontend

The 20-Step Fix for Websites That Are Losing You Money (Without You Even Knowing It)

Get it for FREE today!

https://leads.sustainablewww.com/sustainable-web-design-in-20-lessons-free-ebook

#Development #Launches
Split Flap · A fun text animation web component for your site https://ilo.im/165pb9

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#Text #Display #Animation #WebComponent #Design #WebDesign #WebDev #Frontend #HTML #JavaScript

I'm enjoying getting back to the roots of making websites with HTML, instead of having layers and layers of WordPress between me and what I want to display.

I'm having fun with this one right now:

https://krissykat.neocities.org

Of course when you get down to it a simple #emDash is a bit indistinct, cramped and graceless for most body text. But you have options. Why not use them?

#Development #Collections
HotFX · A collection of well-crafted web components https://ilo.im/165u3y

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#WebComponents #Website #DesignPattern #Design #WebDesign #WebDev #Frontend #HTML #JavaScript

#Design #Tools
Kompressor · A smart and powerful image converter/compressor https://ilo.im/165hq2

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#Image #Conversion #Compression #MacOS #ProductDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend

The Mid-Sized Mission Gap: Website Strategy for Growing Purpose-Driven Organizations
▸ https://lttr.ai/AhF61

#Design #Techniques
Building custom blog post designs · A way to tailor the mood and style of each article https://ilo.im/165r4g

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#Blog #Website #CMS #UxDesign #WebDesign #WebDev #Frontend #HTML #CSS #CustomProperties

::: UPDATE :::

My new website is now first and foremost a Social Media and AI Manifesto.

Running out of arguments when debating why commercial platforms and ‘AI’ are bad? Why we should be wary of vendors’ promises?

I’ve compiled a list of links to sources which I believe to be helpful in convincing others of leaving commercial platforms’ and software giants’ walled gardens.

The sources are mostly recent. If you miss something or find a source worth adding, please let me know in the comments. Thank you.

Boosts very welcome :)

https://babumenos.com/#manifesto

(I have also included a robots.txt and an .htaccess to exclude malicious AI bots from the site, shout-out to Jeff Starr (⁠@perishable⁠), https://perishablepress.com/ultimate-ai-block-list/)

happy #html day! if you’re into meeting some new friends also into webweaving, find an in-person event near you to free-write code with others!~ all over the world! (there’s also an online meetup!)

#Design #Pitfalls
Inclusive personas and user research · “Disability is too big to be reduced to a set of personas.” https://ilo.im/165to8

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#Inclusion #Accessibility #AssistiveTech #Personas #UserResearch #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Approaches

Smashing Magazine: Designing Better UX For Left-Handed People. “Today, roughly 10% of people are left-handed. Yet most products — digital and physical — aren’t designed with it in mind. Let’s change that. More design patterns in Smart Interface Design Patterns, a friendly video course on UX and design patterns by Vitaly.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/01/smashing-magazine-designing-better-ux-for-left-handed-people/

There is this programming concept (unofficially) called the "humanization of dates", where absolute dates get presented as relative ones.

Relative would be descriptors like:

* Three hours ago,
* Two days ago,
* A week ago,
* Yesterday.

Not every website or app allows you to customize the UI to disable this feature.

Usually, it doesn't bother me that much, but I am currently trying to get some transcripts from several locations, and I cannot get absolute dates everywhere, which is inconvenient.