The Digital Accessibility Office of UNC Chapel Hill defines color contrast as “the difference in brightness between foreground and background colors.” You might think that using pure black (with a hex value of #000000) on a white background might provide the highest level of contrast and, subsequently, readability for website visitors. However, a 2018 study… Continue reading Should You Use Pure Black for Text and Backgrounds?
Month: February 2022
Big List of Web Design & Development Resources
As the title states, this is a list of web design and development resources! What are your favorite design and development tools? CSS Flexbox CSS-Tricks – A Complete Guide to Flexbox CSS Grid CSS-Tricks: A Complete Guide to Grid Colors WebAim – Color Contrast Checker Coolors – Color Palette Generator Huemint – Color Palette Generator… Continue reading Big List of Web Design & Development Resources
Do Duplicate Links Help or Hurt?
In her article for Nielsen Norman Group, Hoa Loranger addresses whether duplicate links help or hurt a websites’ users She discusses several reasons why designers use duplicate links: Provide safety nets: if a user misses one link, there’s a second link they can find. Deal with long pages: websites with long pages might provide duplicate… Continue reading Do Duplicate Links Help or Hurt?
Visual Hierarchy and the Squint Test
Edit: The author of the article originally mentioned in this blog post deleted their article from Medium. Here are some different articles that discuss the role of hierarchy in UX/UI design: “The Squint Test: How quick exposure to design can reveal its flaws” by Jeff Gothelf. The article explains what the “squint test” is and… Continue reading Visual Hierarchy and the Squint Test