Building User-Centered Design Systems
Design systems can be technically complicated, but user-focused challenges are often the sources of the real challenges. The Sparkbox team gathered for a recent UnConference to unpack and solve common issues.
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Design System Audits: Why and How
Sparkbox has a decade of experience working with design systems for some of the world’s most influential companies, from Goodyear, to DocuSign, to Gap, Inc.
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Atlas Design Project: Extensive Data, MVPs, and Team Building
Sorting through large datasets takes patience and empathy. This is one of our favorite types of problems: one where you have to step into someone else’s shoes.
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The Importance of User Input in Establishing an Effective MVP
While utilizing an MVP strategy is an excellent way to approach a product, how you develop that MVP can be just as important. Are you including the most valuable elements to your users? Well, there’s one way to find out…
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What Even Are Dragging Movements?
Understanding and implementing the Web Accessibility Content Guidelines (WCAG) can be difficult for even trained experts. Catherine helps us with WCAG 2.2′s newest guideline by explaining the requirements and providing examples of how to improve our user interfaces.
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Navigating Success: The Importance of Onboarding
Onboarding is a crucial step in ensuring that Sparkbox fully understands the problems that clients are facing. Once Onboarding is complete, our team can offer more precise estimates, navigate project phases seamlessly, and work together effectively to achieve the desired results.
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Looking Ahead to 2024
What’s next for Sparkbox and its clients? Nobody has a crystal ball, but we have some ideas about what’s coming. We asked our team to weigh in on trends in technology that will impact how we work in 2024.
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Sparkbox UnConferences: A Platform for Learning and Sharing
Since 2020, Sparkbox has hosted multiple UnConference learning events each year on numerous topics—design systems, user experience design, development, process, and project management. Take a look at all the talks given by our team of experts.
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3 Research Takeaways about Commonly Used Interface Elements
It’s easy to make assumptions about which user interface elements are more or less user-friendly. It’s harder to put in the effort to get to some hard data. But our team did just that when they put three common usability assumptions to the test.
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True or False? People Click “Read More” Links
Our team put another common usability assumption to the test: “Read More” links are important indicators that help users click into blog posts and articles to the test. Follow along to learn the results from a first-click test—they might surprise you.
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Katie Jennings
Vice President of Business Development