Blog Posts
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How can we design our webpages to honour the user’s preference for light or dark mode?
Light/dark mode has been around for a while now, but surprisingly, it’s not implemented much, even though it has become much easier with the introduction of new CSS functions. Having both light and dark modes available on a website is beneficial and important for many reasons. In this article, you will read more about why…
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UX Research and Design for Bulgarian embroidery website
My Major Project website is going to be for non-Bulgarian people who want to learn more about Bulgarian embroidery and its meaning, and also learn how to embroider themselves. For my Major Project, I decided to create an educational website about traditional Bulgarian clothing embroidery. The website is going to be for non-Bulgarian people who…
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London Web Standards (LWS) November 2024
On Wednesday (20th Nov 2024) I attended the LWS monthly web community meet-up for the first time and I had a great time! There were three different talks, which I could not fully understand (yet!), but still interesting and will be definitely something to think back to as I learn and progress. The first talk…
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What I learned this week…
This week on the 9th of October we talked about the next layer of The Web Standards Model – the presentation layer, also known as CSS or the style sheet. We covered the important basics and some best practices: After that we did a demo practice applying a CSS reset and adding some styling rules…
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What I learned this week…
On the 2nd of October, during the morning session we covered the history and bases of HTML and in the afternoon sessions we talked about file management, organisation and back up. During the first session, we learned about The Web Standards Model and understood that it is important to follow it to ensure that we…
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Three Good Websites
This second post focuses on three websites that I believe have good design.
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Three Well-Designed Objects
This is my first post which will focus on three designed objects in my everyday life that I believe are well-designed.