Nowadays, it is very rare to see a one-to-one ratio of designers to developers in any software company. From what I’ve seen, the number of developers working on a product tends to be significantly higher than the number of designers. I am aware that by the nature of both roles…

I’ve been working on accessibility quite a lot recently. I’ve been following the usual advices given by the community, having a good contrast ratio, making sure we use semantic HTML, picking color blind friendly colors, using aria-label’s where appropriate and verifying that the tab order of items are logical. …

When working on a product for a long time, it is very easy to start seeing it as a set of features. As the team always works to get the next feature out, it becomes very common for people to forget the initial goal: solving users’ problem. We always talk…

Recently, I’ve been creating some animations for the project I am currently working on. Before I started with the main work, I wanted to make sure that I knew what deliverables I would need to provide to the developers for the handoff. While figuring things out, my findings eventually led…

We’ve all dealt with the issues when someone is trying to talk about “that light blue button just below the thing with the sliding images” or when you feel the need to open the design document just to make people understand which component you are talking about. The main reason…

Recently I started seeing a trend where fellow designers skip wireframing/low-fidelity-mockups and jump straight into their UI work. While for “some” tasks this might be okay, I believe for majority of your tasks, this will hurt your final design. First, what do I mean by wireframing? When I say wireframing, I am not really talking about fancy…

Every designer faces hard to make design decisions throughout a project. Making the right call in these circumstances is what separates a great designer from a good one. Yet, design decisions shouldn’t be always coming from the gut feeling of the designer. As gut feeling can result in unexpectedly good…

Recently I’ve been experimenting with different design workflows to improve my productivity when working with other designers in the same project. Today, I want to talk about my experience working with another designer in two different projects using two different design workflows. Projects Both these projects were redesigns of existing websites…