Michael Kennedy
@michaelkennedydev.bsky.social
Senior Full-stack Developer, occasional product designer, full-time advocate of good UX practices and maximising coding standards | Family is everything, because some lives are unexpectedly cut short | BSc (hons) MBCS
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“You might be familiar with SPAs, and MPAs, or actually RFWS (
Regular Fucking Web Sites)” — @cydstumpel.nl #CSSDay
Regular Fucking Web Sites)” — @cydstumpel.nl #CSSDay
June 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
“You might be familiar with SPAs, and MPAs, or actually RFWS (
Regular Fucking Web Sites)” — @cydstumpel.nl #CSSDay
Regular Fucking Web Sites)” — @cydstumpel.nl #CSSDay
This is a brilliant example of #UX vs #UI. Sure, it's unique, but nobody recognises it as a roundabout.
UI makes things pretty, while UX makes things recognisable, appealing to learned behaviours and ultimately useful.
Both of these things have to go hand in hand.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UI makes things pretty, while UX makes things recognisable, appealing to learned behaviours and ultimately useful.
Both of these things have to go hand in hand.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Why the California Cross junction has divided Finchampstead
California Cross roundabout has been the subject of controversy since its redesign in 2024.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This is a brilliant example of #UX vs #UI. Sure, it's unique, but nobody recognises it as a roundabout.
UI makes things pretty, while UX makes things recognisable, appealing to learned behaviours and ultimately useful.
Both of these things have to go hand in hand.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UI makes things pretty, while UX makes things recognisable, appealing to learned behaviours and ultimately useful.
Both of these things have to go hand in hand.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Michael Kennedy
I've tried to explain to normal people what CSS is and how standards changed the web, but it's the story of rebeccapurple (#663399) that really makes most people appreciate how human-scale the fight for the web was (and still is).
CSS Gets a New Logo: And It Uses the Color `rebeccapurple` | MichaelCharl.es/Aubrey (Michael Charles Aubrey)
A community vote in the CSS-Next repository on GitHub decided on a new official logo for CSS. The design follows the design language of the logos of other web technologies like JavaScript,…
michaelcharl.es
November 19, 2024 at 2:00 PM
I've tried to explain to normal people what CSS is and how standards changed the web, but it's the story of rebeccapurple (#663399) that really makes most people appreciate how human-scale the fight for the web was (and still is).
Mocking up the first iteration of some #design work using MS Paint before porting to Figma. Took me 15 minutes to understand why the background was omitted from the copy/paste.
Pleasantly surprised to find paint now supports layers. Fantastic to see #microsoft giving it some much needed attention.
Pleasantly surprised to find paint now supports layers. Fantastic to see #microsoft giving it some much needed attention.
November 18, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Mocking up the first iteration of some #design work using MS Paint before porting to Figma. Took me 15 minutes to understand why the background was omitted from the copy/paste.
Pleasantly surprised to find paint now supports layers. Fantastic to see #microsoft giving it some much needed attention.
Pleasantly surprised to find paint now supports layers. Fantastic to see #microsoft giving it some much needed attention.
I wrote this some time time ago, but found myself revisiting its principles for a client project last week.
Inbox by Gmail taught us a lot about how to simplify a complex product area while preserving functionality, customisability and the overall user experience.
#ux #productdesign #design #email
Inbox by Gmail taught us a lot about how to simplify a complex product area while preserving functionality, customisability and the overall user experience.
#ux #productdesign #design #email
Lessons learned from Google Inbox
Inbox by Gmail has been a staple of my day-to-day routine and the routines of many others for the last four years. Its design approach has been to email what the introduction of the ribbon bar was to…
medium.com
November 17, 2024 at 1:48 PM
I wrote this some time time ago, but found myself revisiting its principles for a client project last week.
Inbox by Gmail taught us a lot about how to simplify a complex product area while preserving functionality, customisability and the overall user experience.
#ux #productdesign #design #email
Inbox by Gmail taught us a lot about how to simplify a complex product area while preserving functionality, customisability and the overall user experience.
#ux #productdesign #design #email