Rive reduces the time it takes to make complex animation, making some motion items easier and faster to build.

Design and development collaboration shines with Figma's Smart Animate and Astro's View Transition API for seamless web transitions.

Who Gives a Crap’s great brand wasn’t enough to overcome my product frustrations and keep me from switching to Reel.

Config 2023 went big with its first in-person conference in several years.

While remodeling our home, I found several cool old items left behind in walls and crevices.

Rebranding The Great Courses for the age of streaming.

New hikers are flocking into the backcountry in unprecedented numbers and apps are their tool of choice.

How a tool for sensemaking reconciles two distinct software design ideologies.

So you've just written a blog post or tweet about why wireframes are becoming obsolete, the dangers of "too accessible" design.

Accessibility is not a new concern for web developers, but the topic has existed with a lack of legal clarity for about as long as the internet.

In our discussions of design ethics, where do designers really fit in?

Of all of Viget’s many traditions, our internal hackathon Pointless Weekend may be my personal favorite.

We're accustomed to annotation patterns that discourage focused reading. FiveThirtyEight shows us a better way. Here's why and how.

IKEA's latest mobile app, IKEA Place, uses AR to make a profound impact on the way we shop for furniture at home.

Many digital properties now use skeleton screens in an effort to make their apps feel faster. Should you be using them too?

Building VR apps has never been easier. Combine that with the power and accessibility of the web and you get WebVR.

Figma has become our design tool of choice at Viget. We've been using it to work faster and better, together.

All this sounds exciting, freeing even. These innovations could allow us to turn our focus away from screens and back to the material world, to be simultaneously connected to technology while also present in the moment. And that's incredible. However, this also presents new challenges.

Exit-intent modals must be working for you, otherwise you wouldn't be using them ( exitintent.org, the foil to confirmshaming, catalogs these "success stories"). Yet, from an experience design standpoint, you're playing with fire. For one, these modals are presumptive: they disrupt visitors' normal browsing behavior online, and often can't tell the difference between a new or already-subscribed visitor, so you risk doubly-offending patrons.

So what can the rise of Donald Trump teach designers about the perplexing success of Snapchat's unconventional UI? Here are a few thoughts. As DeAmicis notes, it's not clear whether Snapchat's UI design is the product of visionary foresight or just an accident that worked.