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Webdesign / Graphic Design

  • The new landing page of GitHub as published in March 2025. A stunning dark and still colorful design.

    Designers, your excuse is gone. Stunning, animated and accessible. Yes, you can!

    14.03.2025

    Sorry, dear designers, your excuses are officially dead. For years, I’ve heard the same tired argument: “We can’t make a beautiful website if we have to follow accessibility guidelines.” GitHub just proved you wrong.

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  • Blue floor in the forest.

    GSAP animations and accessibility: yes, you can have both!

    02.03.2025

    Many designers believe accessibility means saying goodbye to animation, but that’s far from the truth. With GSAP, you can create stunning, accessible motion that respects user preferences while keeping your designs engaging.

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  • This photo shows a close-up of a plant with two round peppers hanging from a branch. The main, larger part of the image displays the peppers and leaves in a yellow-brown hue, representing how someone with deuteranopia (a form of color blindness) would see the scene. In the bottom right corner, there is a smaller inset image of the same plant showing the peppers in their true colors—one is green and the other is red—against vibrant green leaves, illustrating the difference in color perception between regular vision and deuteranopia.

    How to simulate color-blindness and other visual impairments, in your web browser

    06.11.2024

    A practical guide to simulate color blindness in your browser.

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  • Artistic drawing of a giant fantasy siamese-like cat with stars on his skin, sniffing the air

    Low color contrast is like a faint but lingering bad smell

    29.05.2022

    Often it’s hard to convince people with 20/20 vision why contrast is so important on their sites. Here’s an easy-to-understand analogy of how bad color contrast results in people leaving a web shop or site.

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  • Classic painting of a huge fantasy peacock

    Accessible design is profitable design

    18.04.2022

    A great online shopping experience makes happy returning customers! And that’s best explained by examples of a bad experience. Let me take you on a little journey of examples in daily life.

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