Animations are seen in many web sites throughout the Internet. Ease of use is considered as a possible reason for the growing use such multimedia feature in designing of web sites. While animations are ubiquitous in the Web environment, there is an inadequate understanding of its effect on user's attention. Animations are advantages of information technology for web designers, but important questions remain about whether animations work in all situations and for all users. Focusing on web animation, this paper reviews literature and at the end it extracts guide lines for better designing of websites.

Strategic use of animations and transitions can make your program easier to understand, feel smoother, more natural, and of higher quality, and be more engaging. But the gratuitous use of animations and transitions can make your program distracting and even annoying.

User interfaces are often based on static presentations, a model ill-suited for conveying change. Consequently, events on the screen frequently startle and confuse users.

The Interaction Design Lab is the research laboratory of the Interface Design programme at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam, Germany. The lab is a space for international interaction design experts from industry and academia. It provides an interface between education, research and development, transfer of technology, design and knowledge and provides a space for multi-disciplinary projects.

Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones brought the world Gotham, Mercury, and Archer. They had one of the most successful—and lucrative—partnerships in type design. But one of them thought it wasn’t a partnership at all. via Pocket

Wish you were better/smarter/stronger/faster? Sure, hard work helps, but the truth is, your self perception may be getting in the way. We all form our own realities, and those realities aren't perfect. via Pocket

В ми­ре, где нас по­всю­ду окру­жа­ют зна­ки и сим­во­лы, най­дёт­ся вре­мя, что­бы узнать о них чуть боль­ше. «Шрифт» — элек­трон­ный жур­нал о шриф­те и ти­по­гра­фи­ке, язы­ке и вре­ме­ни, лю­дях и ви­зу­аль­ных тра­ди­ци­ях. Мы стре­мим­ся объ­еди­нить на стра­ни­цах из­да­ния всё, что ка­са­ет­ся ис­кус­ства шриф­та и осо­бен­но­стей его ис­поль­зо­ва­ния. Жур­нал пуб­ли­ку­ет ста­тьи и ин­тер­вью об ис­то­рии шриф­то­во­го ди­зай­на и его раз­ви­тии в на­ши дни, рас­ска­зы­ва­ет о но­вых шриф­то­вых про­ек­тах, а так­же ис­сле­ду­ет зна­чи­мые, с точ­ки зре­ния ти­по­гра­фи­ки, про­ек­ты про­шло­го и на­сто­я­ще­го.

This standard outlines the requirements and recommendations for making BBC websites accessible with respect to editorial content and user experience. Other technical aspects of accessibility are covered in the technical standards, e.g. Semantic Mark-up, CSS, Javascript, XHTML, etc. Other aspects of accessibility are covered in separate standards, e.g. subtitles, use of colour, flicker and movement, games, keyboard access, text equivalents, text links etc.

Polymer is a library that uses the latest web technologies to let you create custom HTML elements. Build anything from a button to a complete application as an encapsulated, reusable element that works across desktop and mobile.

Listed below are our design principles and examples of how we’ve used them so far. These build on, and add to, our original 7 digital principles.

Industry leaders on: UX Design; Product Design & Launch; Innovation design practices… and dozens more topics.

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). To celebrate and to help promote accessibility, here are 10 simple accessibility tips that most anyone can implement today into their web site’s HTML and CSS to make it more accessible.

Most people today can hardly conceive of life without the internet. Some have argued that no other single invention has been more revolutionary since Gutenberg's printing press in the 1400s. Now, at the click of a mouse, the world can be "at your fingertips"—that is, if you can use a mouse... and see the screen... and hear the audio—in other words, if you don't have a disability of any kind.
This introduction should help you understand how people with disabilities use the web, the frustrations they feel when they cannot access the web, and what you can do to make your sites more accessible.

People come to GOV.UK with specific needs. Anything that gets between our users and meeting those needs should be stripped away. The design of GOV.UK reflects this, existing primarily as a way of providing the right content and services to our users. Find out here how we approach this challenge.

From April 2014, digital services from the government must meet the new Digital by Default Service Standard.

Flexbox - это новый способ располагать блоки на странице. Это технология, созданная именно для раскладки элементов, в отличие от float-ов. С помощью Flexbox можно легко выравнивать элементы по горизонтали и по вертикали, менять направление и порядок отображение элементов, растягивать блоки на всю высоту родителя или прибивать их к нижнему краю.

We know some devices won’t display icon fonts: but how many people are really affected? We decided to do some research to quantify things.

Mads Burcharth is a designer focused on design and illustration, working out of his little studio in the heart of Denmark.