Writing in Sync: Design System Content
Design systems help create a shared language within an organization, but without good documentation, no one will be able to speak that language.
UX & Content
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Help Shape Our Sustainable Web Project
Sparkbox is developing our own Website Carbon Calculator as a hands-on way to explore web sustainability and learn how to reduce digital carbon footprints. We’re asking for your input so we can create the most useful tool possible.
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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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Accessibility in an MVP Workflow
When building an MVP, how do you balance speed and iteration with making sure that the product meets accessibility guidelines? It’s tempting to save accessibility for later, but it’s much easier to avoid mistakes and costly retrofitting by considering accessibility from the very beginning. Dustin shares some strategies for making sure your MVP is built accessibly without slowing down your project.
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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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Case Study: Corporate Website Strategy, UX, and Redesign for a Fortune 500 Company
Sometimes the biggest challenge in an engagement is deciding which problems to solve. With a recent client, we were able to pivot to design and tell their story in a whole new way.
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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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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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True or False? Switches Are Hard to Use
Our team put another common usability assumption to the test: switches for binary selections are worse for usability than radio buttons or checkboxes. Follow along to learn the results from a first-click test—they might surprise you.
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Want to talk about how we can work together?
Katie Jennings
Vice President of Business Development