You’re putting the finishing touches on your new million-dollar-idea — your copy is perfect, your color scheme is dazzling, and you’ve found a glorious font pairing (who knew Baskerville and Raleway looked so great together? You did.) but there’s one problem: Raleway’s pesky lowercase numbers make your shopping cart look confusing and overwhelm the user.
This is a fairly mundane problem, but an issue that can make beautiful typefaces unusable if numbers are an important part of your site; a …
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I think Facundo Corradini is right here in calling out our tweet. If you’re italicizing text because it should be styled that way (e.g. using italics to display a person’s internal thought dialog, as illustrated in our example), then that’s an <i> and not an <em>, because <em> is for stress emphasis — as in, a word you would emphasize with your voice, if spoken, to affect meaning.
Plus, I’m always down for long-form articles about the nuances …
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I came clean about my long-running and ongoing battle with chronic depression last year in a blog post on my personal site. But don’t worry, things no worse than they were then and this post is about something else. This post is about designing empathetic user experiences.
Several other sites have been posting on this topic, whether it’s how UX can improve mental health or how it can be used to prevent suicide.
It’s the latter I’d like to …
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