ByBrian Krogsgard
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The General Services Administration (GSA) recently launched the U.S. Web Design System 2.0. USWDS is a library of code, tools, and guidance to help government teams design and build fast, accessible, mobile-friendly government websites. It already powers nearly 200 federal sites, and 2.0 introduces a powerful toolkit of new features.
Forty is a design and UX agency based in Arizona. James Archer, Forty’s CEO, is a founding member of the Gangplank incubator in Chandler, AZ. Forty is a team of six that have focused on design and UX for the past 11 years. Throughout their years, they’ve brought on a lot of young talent and trained…
WordPress.com has launched the MP6 dashboard redesign to everyone this morning. The comments on Matt Thomas’ announcement post are pretty enlightening as to how regular folks feel, and also a bit entertaining. In short, most are happy and some are very unhappy. Not many people are in the middle. I do think a couple of…
There’s been talk of how difficult it is to stand out in the WordPress professional theme space lately. David A. Kennedy at ThemeShaper says Gutenberg is going to change this “in a big way.” David thinks the new editor will add such versatility to all themes that it will shift the market’s focus from theme functionality to design….
As WP Lift proves with this list of themes, sidebar navigation is back. Some of these are beautiful, but it makes me kind of sad to see there are a few leaders taking risks with their themes, but many, many followers.
Amy Hendrix has released a nice integration of Sass for the Underscores theme by Automattic. Underscores, or _s, has gotten a lot of traction as an easy to fork base theme, and it’s maintained by some truly great theme wranglers at Automattic. This Sass element to drop on top of _s is a handy extension…
Matej Latin did a survey of designers who quit their jobs and discovered: No career progression opportunities and unhappiness with the work they do were about equal, at about 20% each. Problems with company culture came next. A lack of UX maturity was third followed by salary, poor relationships with management, and misalignment with company…
