In the Summer of 2018, WCAG 2.0 will be updated to version 2.1 with new guidelines for making websites even more accessible. In this post I’ll try to give simple explanations of these guidelines along with thoughts and advice on how to follow them.
WCAG stands for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and is an International established set of guidelines for accessible content on the Internet. These guidelines are mainly for people with various disabilities, but also for different devices used for browsing websites.
WCAG is maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the main standards organisation for the Internet. The current version (WCAG 2.0) was published in 2008 and became an ISO standard (ISO/IEC 40500:2012) in 2012.
In the Summer of 2018, WCAG 2.1 is set to be released with seventeen new guidelines that focus on improving accessibility for users with cognitive disabilities and for users who browse websites on mobile devices like tablets and smartphones.
In recent years, Sketch has risen to one of the top vector graphics editors among designers. I use it several times a week at work and I love it! Here are my tips for making great wireframes in Sketch
When I started working as an IT consultant in 2011, my designer colleagues all used different vector graphics editors. Today, almost everyone of them uses Sketch exclusively.
If you’re making wireframes, creating a style guide or drawing illustrations Sketch is the perfect tool! It’s popular, not overburdened with features and costs much less than editors like Photoshop.
Here are my best pieces of advice when making wireframes in Sketch.
Organize your screens with Pages and Artboards
As your wireframes grow, keeping all screens organized is essential for staying efficient. Hence, you should make use of Pages and Artboards.
Create a Page for each set of related screens
In Sketch, a Page offers a new blank canvas. There’s no reason to put all of your screens on the same Page. Instead, create a Page for each set of related screens of the app or website your making wireframes for.
Memories fade over time and some are easily lost forever, especially if they’re stored on old VHS tapes. This is my guide on how to transfer your VHS tapes to your Mac, so you can store them for the future.
When I came home for Christmas eight years ago in 2010, my parents had organized all of their old VHS tapes from when I was a kid. When we watched some of them, I realized that these tapes needed to be transfered to digital form before they deteriorated further.
I took me seven years, but last year I decided to finally transfer these tapes to digital form as a Christmas gift to my parents.
This is how I did it, step by step.
1. Getting the equipment
Transferring VHS tapes to a computer requires getting some equipment.
Luckily, my parents had already done a lot of the hard work by having not one but two VHS players in great shape (one broke down and we had to repair it for $72, but that’s another story).
This is the equipment I used (excluding my Macbook):
Clockwise from the top: VHS player, some of the VHS-C cassettes, VHS-C cassette adapter (with another VHS-C cassette beneath), video capture dongle from Plexgear and a SCART to RCA cable.Read full post
On April 28th (the day after From Business To Buttons 2017), I got a spot at Mike Monteiro’s workshop Presenting Work Like Your Life Depends On It. So, let me – with the help of Monteiro – give you some tips on how to hold a great presentation.
For the past year and a half, I’ve been using the web app inVision for sharing design and making clickable prototypes. With this post I wanted to share some tips on how to prototype like a pro.
inVision is a widely popular web app for making clickable prototypes and sharing, storing and collaborating on design. It’s used by companies such as Netflix, Adobe, Twitter and Uber.
When working with inVision, you don’t create wireframes or graphic design in the app. This is done in your graphics editor of choice and you just upload the exported images to inVision.
Then, you place so called hotspots on these images that simulate the intended future behaviour of your design.
inVision has in no time at all turned into one of my all time favourite digital tools along Trello, Dropbox and Google Drive.
Here’s some of my tips on how to prototype like a pro with inVision.
