Niklaus Gerber - Issue #102
The Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a Smile
Alexandra Lange writes on Susan Kare, who designed the suite of icons that made the Macintosh revolutionary—a computer that you could communicate with in pictures. A big thank you to @an_kam for sharing this one with me.
Getting to change
There’s been a wave of self-organized movements in the past year (including the largest single day protest in U.S. history ). While Change.org has played a large role in many of these, their…
Is Google... evil?
Google still struggles to make its autocomplete feature not offend people on the regular.
How to Create Interfaces that Benefit All: Accessibility Testing and Inclusive Design Principles
Ian Macrae is a man with a visual impairment. His story appeared in The Guardian in 2015. Ian uses VoiceOver software to navigate through the web in a way unlike most people do. The voice assistant…
Users Don’t Hate Change. They Hate Our Design Choices.
A message appeared to users at the top of the screen that was deep in the administration system for Google’s G-Suites apps. It read “The new User management feature has more efficient workflows…