Designing a dark mode that still feels like your brand

Dark mode is more than a black background. Check there’s a real need, rebuild the palette by role, review images and make the preference behave like a choice.

#Accessibility

A large catalog needs filters that match how people choose

Filters should follow customers’ real questions. Clean the product data, keep applied filters visible, explain empty results and remember choices on mobile.

#Ecommerce

When the automation diagram starts needing its own map

Simple automations grow into tangled diagrams. Follow one case through the failures: where is it waiting, can a person recover it, can the rules change safely?

#Automation

A new player needs a reason to look at the leaderboard again

A lifetime leaderboard can discourage newcomers. Name the score, add season and group views with clear rules, and give progress a home outside first place.

#Community

Your AI assistant needs the right context before another clever prompt

When an AI mixes up a draft and an approved plan, a better prompt may not help. Give documents roles, retrieve the right evidence and keep working state apart.

#AI

The WordPress editor is part of the website experience

After launch, the people updating the site are users too. Start with an ordinary update, make controls match decisions and rehearse the handoff together.

#ACF

Developers can use AI and still check its homework

Using AI and checking its output go together. Review the requirement as well as the code, and keep domain checks part of normal engineering.

#AI

A meal subscription needs a proper pause button, and rules behind it

Pausing a meal subscription should check the next delivery, show the cutoff where the decision happens and connect to work already in production.

#Meal delivery

Commerce workflows can outgrow a single order status

“Processing” can’t cover inspection, offers, disputes and payouts. Model transitions as decisions, give exceptions a route and keep the customer view simple.

#Ecommerce

Your brand voice has to handle the error messages too

A playful voice can stay human when things go wrong. Lead with the useful sentence, be precise about what worked and dial down the personality when recovery matters.

#Branding

How Interiors by Steven G Built a Custom Website

How Zulu Shack used custom web design to give Interiors by Steven G a digital showroom for its luxury South Florida interiors, with a smooth mobile experience.

#Adobe XD

People should not have to decode the inquiry form

A short form can still be hard. Give each date a clear role, group related questions, let uncertainty be a valid answer and help people correct mistakes.

#Cognitive load