Brad Frost

The May 2024 issue of STC’s Technical Communication is out with my review of Jason Tham, Tharon Howard, Gustav Verhulsdonck’s UX Writing: Designing User-Centered Content. If you haven’t read this book yet, grab a copy. It’s definitely worth your time! 📚🤩 Read the review in the journal, the attached photo, or on Medium: https://lnkd.in/ecqyziCT #ContentStrategy #UX #ContentDesign

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I submitted a talk about UX patterns and needs that lead me to turn off Drupal. It's not an anti-Drupal talk, it's an anti-end-user-complexity-and-training-requirements, talk. There are many great Drupal sites and use-cases. Straight forward content collection and body field presentation, is not one of them. I'm not sure this talk will be accepted, but I figured I'd at least try and put into words the pursuit of content creator joy that we are going for. Less screens, less 'previews', less training, less new process; more of adapting to the workflows users are familiar with and present to us less as "challenges" and more as requirements to improve adoption and success in ownership.

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Read another full post I wrote recently for Connective Web Design blog about what makes websites "sticky," retaining visitors and making them spend more time on your site. Let me know your thoughts. https://lnkd.in/da7J6_zZ #WebDesign #WebDevelopment #visitorretention #Copywriting #blogpost

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Nick Hahn and I are going to be cohosting a webinar on May 22, at 1PM ET / 10AM PT called How to Craft a Business Case for Design System Investment. The title is a bit of a mouthful but we promise to be succinct in our discussion. We all know that design systems have tremendous potential to drive innovation, competitive advantage, deliver ROI in terms of time and costs, and generate revenue for organizations, but how do you get executive buy-in to build a design system that can live up to its potential? We'll cover topics like... - Measuring value with metrics that actually matter - All the ways design systems add value and drive ROI - and, of course, how to build a business case for investment in your design system. Registration link in the comments (because, you know LinkedIn)...

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With enough #compute, one could imagine a cloud-hosted UX research platforms like @UserTesting building specialized analytical models. But it's likely out of reach for most small UX research teams, and certainly for any #independent UXResearcher. https://lttr.ai/AR3uS #UXResearch #UXDesign #uxresearch #HundredThousandPounds #UXR #Freelance #LargeLanguageModel

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Worth revisiting this article on the importance of Labels in Forms, from an accessibility perspective and overall product experience. https://lnkd.in/eSyAwf48 #design #designthinking #designbuild #designstrategy #product #producctdesign #productmanagement #productstrategy #designprinciples #innovation #designers #digitaltransformation #ux #uxdesign #uiux #uidesign #designinnovation #application #software #softwaredesign #usability #userresearch #research #usercentereddesign #productleadership #uxwriting #designsystems #empathy #interfacedesign #usabilitytesting #userexperience #productdesign #accessibility #ui

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It's heartening to see how many media sites in SpeedCurve's Page Speed Benchmarks have sub-2.5s LCP times! For some of the sites with poorer LCP, perceived #webperf / #ux isn't the issue. They're fast to start render. The main culprit is that the LCP element is just wrong. The takeaway: don't just look at the numbers for your performance metrics. Visually validate them to make sure they're measuring the right things! https://lnkd.in/gG5zEK4u #pagespeed #sitespeed #corewebvitals #webperformance

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As I refine my hiring process I have question. What would you guys prefer? 1) In person/remote 30min white board session 2) Challenging design assignment done over a week 3) Mock podcast recording where we have a conversation about design.

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📝 Freelance Blog 👨‍💻 Finishing the planning phase for "Ecommere For Kids" (official name TBD) early this week and have decided to try out a couple of new tools and libraries for this one! My plan is to create the landing page, a few EATS pages, and the tool as an application, create an admin as a secondary application, and use Shopify, various dropshipping (DS) services, and print-on-demand (POD) services and store them in base template collections. The web app, admin app, and parent store will all communicate with one another using a login & auth system to communicate store information about the user's session and Store object that gets created. For the login and auth I am using an auth server and mongoDB, user sessions, and tokens (JWT). I plan to integrate SSO in the future so I want to structure the backend to handle this from the start. I am also using #Prisma as my ORM, for the first time. I really like the idea of having an ORM that I can use for SQL & NoSQL and a tool that automatically generates Types from the schema for each database table. For the Admin application I am using a front-end UI & component library called #Mantine. I've heard great things about it many times in the past and as a fan of Chakra UI, I wanted to give it a try. This seemed like the perfect project for it because Mantine comes with a lot of add-ons, including components to visualize data which will be heavily used in the Admin application. I still have some obstacles to overcome but this project is challenging me like never before! I take a lot of pride in being able to accomplish these kinds of projects as the sole developer and am thankful I now have the confidence to apply for these kinds of projects. Using these tools give me such incredible value and allows me to spend a lot less time debugging and tweaking things in the UI and making user errors with database data that I can actually take on larger scale projects. It truly wouldn't be possible without these kinds of tools and I am eternally grateful for them.

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Friendly reminder: names/architecture/conventions/syntax matter. The specifics matter less than you might think, but it's crucial to make decisions, stick to them, document them, and cultivate shared understanding. #frontend #uxdesign #designsystems #uidesign #digitaldesign #development

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Today, @Adobe released an update to our Terms of Use based on community feedback. In this short video I cover the areas where people had the most concern. The updated terms can be found here: https://lnkd.in/eMh6XmCA

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Accessibility should be a key value for any product design team. Unfortunately, most of apps and websites still lack essential accessibility features like screen reader support, adjustable font sizes, and color contrast adjustments. I've just noticed that Yieldstreet, an investment platform for alternative assets, has integrated the UserWay.org widget that helps users with visual impairments, motor disabilities, and cognitive disabilities by introducing accessibility features in a seamless way. Kudos to Yieldstreet. Hopefully, accessibility will become the standard practice for all fintech platforms. At Ripe Capital, we are in mindful of things like font size and contrast when designing our platform. However, there is always room for improvement, and we pledge to continue our accessibility efforts.

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Is it just me World Usability Congress or should your website adhere to at least WCAG 1.0 standards? Text as an image over video, days with no month or dates, white text on teal, no ability to tab through content, hover drop-down menus... woud be great to see this brought up to a level its intended to represent. https://lnkd.in/gwU5mGim #usabilitystandards #accessibility #customerexperience #designstandards #ux #cx #uxaudit

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Worth a bookmark in your #graphicdesign set. Each of these 58 points apply to #presentationdesign too.

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Making your website accessible is more than a legal requirement; it’s the right thing to do. Qualibooth.com helps businesses achieve ADA and EAA compliance with thorough audits and actionable solutions. Get a free scan to see how your website's accessibility compliance rates at https://lnkd.in/gjfC_NBe #ADACompliance #EAACompliance #WebAccessibility #Qualibooth

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