New year happened. and then Christmas happened. And then I went away for jolly. Enough time to break a habit.
Not a chance.
This weeks design and developer inspiration rundown has even more of the good stuff. Want to know more about accessibility? Check. How about the newest CMSs on the scene? I got you. Enjoy!
Website Inspiration
Beauregard
Beautiful beautiful website. Smooth movement, great imagery and subtle copy. Only one issue… it auto-plays music you cannot turn off. Are they being serious?!
Designer Resources, Examples and Inspiration
Designing for Accessibility is not that hard
Seven easy-to-implement guidelines to design a more accessible web
https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/designing-accessibility-not-hard/
Merge
Build one component, apply everywhere. Keep an eye on this. It could be big. Making web dev smoother and faster.
The dilemma of designers’ empathy delusions
Taking a bit of a reality check on how empathetic you really are and for whom can help make you a more effective designer, not just an idealistic one.
https://medium.com/shapingdesign/the-dilemma-of-designers-empathy-delusions-a61f0663deaf
Development Snippets, Samples, and Articles
Remove Image Background
Using AI and come clever code, this website (it has an API) removes an images background in 5 seconds. So much potential for apps…
Destyle
Think normalise.css. Think reset.css. But think better.
https://github.com/nicolas-cusan/destyle.css
Twill
Slim, sleek and sexy new CMS built on Laravel. Open Source and flexible. Will be trying this one out for size.
Jigsaw
Another static site. This one seems cleaner and easier to set up though? Ill let you be the judge.
A bit of everything
The Rise of the Content Mesh
Use best-of-breed solutions tailored to specific use-cases like e-commerce or blogging; it provides a modern framework for rapid iteration and it generates lightning fast websites out of the box. Enter the content mesh!
https://thoughtsandstuff.com/the-rise-of-the-content-mesh/
Story Mapping, Visual Way of Building Product Backlog
Story mapping is a top-down approach of requirement gathering and is represented as a tree. Story mapping starts from an overarching vision. A vision is achieved via goals. Goals are reached by completing activities. And to complete an activity, users needs to perform tasks. And these tasks can be transformed into user stories for software development.
https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/story-mapping-visual-way-building-product-backlog
Are Your Analytics Lying?
Most people are not ready to convert right away and you shouldn’t expect them to do so anyway…
Basically I’m saying you need to focus on long term conversion strategies too!
https://www.cortes.design/post/saas-marketing-myth-analytics
Milanote
Capture your teams ideas, all in one place.
Screen Guru
Take a screenshot of any website. Easily.
Spotify Design
Spotifys very own blog section of design. Well worth a scroll through!
https://spotify.design/
