Raindrop.io Bookmarks 07/16/2022

2022年7月16日 著

• Perceived affordances and the functionality mismatch - Tink - Léonie Watson

  "Using a set of radio buttons for a component that lets people select one thing at a time makes sense - it's what they're for after all. It's when the radio buttons don't look like radio buttons that the mismatch happens."

• What is the best way to mark up an exclusive button group? - Lea Verou

  "She went on to make the point that if a design looks like buttons, it should act like buttons, otherwise there are mismatched expectations and poor UX for AT users"

• The Many Faces of Themeable Design Systems | Brad Frost

  "a design system can be as flexible as the organization needs it to be. And while this post covers flexibility from a design language perspective, there are many other aspects of flexibility involved with design systems (component variants, supporting multiple tech stacks, composition, recipes, etc). Taken together, design systems can provide a flexible foundation for many diverse products to be built on top of."

• Deque Expands C-Suite with New Chief Information Accessibility Officer

  ""After serving as Team Accessibility Lead at Deque for over 10 years, I'm thrilled to move into this new role because every organization needs accessibility at the executive level,"  said Glenda Sims, CIAO at Deque."

• How the James Webb Telescope's cosmic pictures impacted the Internet

  "There are two clear spikes in the next chart. The first was around the time the first galaxy cluster infrared image was announced by Joe Biden, on Monday, July 11, 2022 (at 17:00), with traffic rising 13x higher than in the previous week. There was also a 5x spike at 01:00 EST that evening. The second spike was higher and longer and happened during Tuesday, July 12, 2022, when more images were revealed."

• The History of User Interfaces

  "The Xerox Alto was a computer designed from its inception to support an operating system based on a graphical user interface (GUI), later using the desktop metaphor. The first machines were introduced on 1 March 1973, a decade before mass-market GUI machines became available."