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• Matthias Ott

My Favorite Mac Apps in 2023

After three years, I finally replaced my old Intel MacBook Pro – and its cracked screen – with a new machine. I’m still holding back a bit with my excitement for this 16-inch M1 Max MacBook Pro, just because I was ...

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• Matthias Ott

WOFF Has Left the Building

In a recent project, the web fonts I bought and downloaded were only available as WOFF2 files. Staring in disbelief at the unpacked folder full of WOFF2 files, I wondered: Why did they not include WOFF files as well? Isn’t WOFF still needed? Or is it finally time to ditch WO...

Matthias Ott Supports Webmention
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WOFF Has Left the Building

In a recent project, the web fonts I bought and downloaded were only available as WOFF2 files. Staring in disbelief at the unpacked folder full of WOFF2 files, I wondered: Why did they not include WOFF files as well? Isn’t WOFF still needed? Or is it finally time to ditch WO...

Matthias Ott Supports Webmention
• Matthias Ott

Pointing Fingers

Don’t use your finger!” Regardless of which country and school system you grew up in, chances are you have heard this sentence at least once from one of your teachers. I, for one, remember my elementary...

Matthias Ott Supports Webmention
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Pointing Fingers

Don’t use your finger!” Regardless of which country and school system you grew up in, chances are you have heard this sentence at least once from one of your teachers. I, for one, remember my elementa...

Smart Interface Design Patterns Valid
• Vitaly Friedman

How To Design For Autistic People

Nearly 1% of the global population is autistic. Yet often it’s not obvious how to consider the needs of autistic people in the design process. Let’s change that. Below are some general UX guidelines, do’s and don’ts to design better UX — for autistic people and everybody els...

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• Vitaly Friedman

How To Name Design Tokens in Design Systems

Design tokens represent small, repeatable design decisions. Instead of using exact HEX or px-values, we refer to a token which name describes how and where they are used. It makes it much easier to update the design by changing one value in one place and not breaking anythin...

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Adventures with BeMyAI

Today I was given early access to the BeMyAI beta, a feature that's being added to the BeMyEyes iOS app using ChatGPT4. BeMyEyes BeMyEyes is one of the most remarkable apps to have emerged in recent years. You sign up either as a sighted volunteer, or a blind or low vision p...

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• Vitaly Friedman

Free Books For Interface & UX Designers

These books have been kindly shared by the community, with lessons learned by authors for everybody to read and benefit from. A sincere, enormous thank-you to the authors for making their work available to everyone for free. Hopefully you and your friends will find them usef...

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• Vitaly Friedman

Color Contrast Cheat Sheet PDF

Poor color contrast is the most common problem on the web. Here are some useful guidelines for text and buttons, with minimum contrast recommendations for better legibility, a few color contrast tools and useful resources. How Color Contrast Is Calculated # In general, colo...

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• Matthias Ott

Good Riddance, GPTBot

Just like Google is constantly indexing the Web, OpenAI is now crawling the open Web to scrape content from websites for free to train their LLM (lucrative language model) “AI” products.

But, as I learned from a post by Ethan on Mastodon, you can disallow GPTBot to get its tiny robot hands on your writing by adding those two lines of code to your website’s robots.txt:

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

Good riddance, GPTBot! 👋

Matthias Ott Supports Webmention
• matthiasott

Good Riddance, GPTBot

Just like Google is constantly indexing the Web, OpenAI is now crawling the open Web to scrape content from websites for free to train their LLM (lucrative language model) “AI” products.

But, as I learned from a post by Ethan on Mastodon, you can disallow GPTBot to get its tiny robot hands on your writing by adding those two lines of code to your website’s robots.txt:

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

Good riddance, GPTBot! 👋

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• Martina Flor

112. Season Finale! Best Moments of Martina Flor's Open Studio season 4

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Thank you for watching and listening to this podcast, you are the motor that keeps Open Studio alive! Subscribe and leave us a review to help us keeping doing this and more for you. Have a great summer and see you on season 5!


See full shownotes at https://www.martinaflor.com/podcast

Download Lettering DNA PDF here: https://www.martinaflor.com/letteringdna

Smart Interface Design Patterns Valid
• Vitaly Friedman

Practical Guide For UX and Design Managers

Things To Avoid as a Design Manager # Most managers don’t give enough feedback. Don’t “sandwich” feedback — critique with humility. Never do your team’s work; help them do their best work. Don’t mandate decisions from the top; explain them. Don’t be a silent voice in the...

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• Vitaly Friedman

A Guide For Designing For Older Adults

Avoid Wrong Assumptions # Don’t assume that older adults struggle to use digital. You don’t need to strip the design to bare minimum. Avoid general stereotypes and assumptions about elderly people. Most users are healthy, active and have a solid income. How To Write...

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• Vitaly Friedman

How To Design For Users With Colorblindness

Too often accessibility is seen as a checklist, but it’s much more complex than that. We might be using a good contrast for our colors, but then if these colors are perceived very differently by people, it can make interfaces extremely difficult to use. Depending on our colo...

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• Vitaly Friedman

Where to Take Your UX Career?

An example of anin-house ladder, ranging from junior designer to design director. From 10 Directions To Take Your Next Career. There is no universal career path that works for everyone. In fact, the best path is the one that feels right to you. But there are some thing...

Martina Flor’s Open Studio Updates instantly via WebSub
• Martina Flor

111. How To Build Momentum by Martina Flor

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25:18

You know that amazing feeling when you're in the zone, riding the wave of momentum? It's the ultimate catalyst for achieving your goals and making things happen. But how do you discover it and maintain it, especially when life throws obstacles your way?


Get ready, because in this episode, I'll unveil practical and powerful techniques to unlock the unstoppable force of momentum.

Smart Interface Design Patterns Valid
• Vitaly Friedman

Six Ways To Speed Up Navigation

In some interfaces, navigation feels extremely slow and frustrating. Users seem to be running in circles, heading through multiple pages, sections and sub-sites, being re-routed and redirected multiple times — often without a clear path forward. How can we boost the speed of...

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• Vitaly Friedman

How To Design For Users With Dyslexia

Dyslexia can take different shapes. Different people are in a different place on a continuum, but for some dyslexic users reading might take longer, especially if text has many large uninterrupted blocks, italics, words written in uppercase and flashing images. It’s difficul...