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Best Practices

Notes and curated resources tagged best-practices.

Smashing Magazine – September 2026

Designing With Reduced Motion For Motion Sensitivities

How to use the prefers-reduced-motion media feature to design motion that respects users with vestibular disorders. Essential reading for anyone shipping animated interfaces.

accessibility
ui
best-practices

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IAB – September 2026

IAB New Ad Portfolio – HTML5 display guidelines

The industry-standard guidelines for HTML5 display advertising. The formal spec behind a decade of rich-media production practice.

best-practices
process
engineering

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Addy Osmani (V8 team) – September 2026

The Cost of JavaScript in 2019

How JavaScript parse, compile and execution time affects performance budgets – the bridge between production craft and engineering credibility.

engineering
best-practices
process

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RGD – January 2026

The UX articles that stood out in 2025

RGD’s selection of the UX writing that stood out in 2025. It distils the year’s useful thinking into references I can bring back to interface decisions and implementation.

ux
best-practices
resources

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Nielsen Norman Group – January 2026

UX articles

Nielsen Norman Group’s evidence-based archive covers usability, interaction design, and research methods. I return to it for principles that keep design-to-code decisions grounded in user behavior rather than fashion.

ux
research
best-practices

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Baymard Institute – December 2024

Baymard Year In Review 2024

Baymard’s year-in-review with their most popular UX articles, strong on e‑commerce patterns. Its evidence-based patterns sharpen the details I carry from interface design into production code.

ux
ecommerce
best-practices

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Nielsen Norman Group – December 2024

Figma Best Practices

Official Figma best practices for design and prototyping workflows. I return to it for cleaner files and clearer handoffs, reducing friction when designs become working interfaces.

figma
prototyping
best-practices

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Notes – June 2022 – 1 min read

Best practices for better design

Essential reading on the practices that propel the best design teams forward.

design-systems
best-practices

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Best Practices

Designing With Reduced Motion For Motion Sensitivities

IAB New Ad Portfolio – HTML5 display guidelines

The Cost of JavaScript in 2019

The UX articles that stood out in 2025

UX articles

Baymard Year In Review 2024

Top 10 UX Articles of 2024

Figma Best Practices

Best practices for better design