RippleBlog
Welcome to the Ripple Blog!
Join us as we explore the latest trends, share our experiences, and highlight the lessons we've learned from working on the Ripple Design System for the Watermark Impact Suite. We're passionate about solving the unique challenges that come with creating a comprehensive and accessible design system that empowers teams to collaborate, innovate, and drive positive change.
Latest Post
Redesigning Ripple’s Navigation
This blog article dives into the process behind redesigning Ripple’s navigation, highlighting how design research, user feedback, and iterative improvements came together to create a more intuitive and user-centered experience.
As with any significant design challenge, research, testing, and feedback are essential for creating a strong solution. While this process is a core part of a designer’s problem-solving approach, there are often obstacles, such as insufficient time for thorough user research or a lack of resources for testing and gathering feedback.
Recent Posts
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Redesigning Ripple’s Navigation
As with any significant design challenge, research, testing, and feedback are essential for creating a strong solution. While this process is a core part of a designer’s problem-solving approach, there are often obstacles, such as insufficient time for thorough user research or a lack of resources for testing and gathering feedback. -
Focus trap
We recently updated Ripple's Modal component to use the new dialog element under the hood and noticed it handled focus trapping slightly differently from what we were used to (and the way we had implemented it in Ripple). -
WCAG 2.2 In Review
Version 2.2 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) was published as a “W3C Recommendation” Web Accessibility Standard on October 5, 2023. The update removes a success criterion and adds nine new ones. -
Be My AI
LLMs (Large Language Models) are very promising for assisting people with visual impairments. Be My Eyes, who has been connecting blind people with volunteers who describe what they see, recently introduced a virtual assistant, Be My AI, powered by OpenAI's GPT-4. -
A Blog Makes Waves
This blog will explore practices and latest trends, share our experiences, and highlight the lessons we've learned from creating the Ripple Design System for the Watermark Education Impact Suite (EIS). Communication and collaboration are the cornerstones of the Design System team, and this blog is a new channel to share our stories and insights with our users, stakeholders, and beyond. -
Chart Grids
In theory, the front-end developer translates the designer's specifications into code. In practice, some details are always left out of the specifications. How wide or narrow can the element get? What if the text is much longer than the one shown in the mockup? And so on. Sometimes it can be considered the designer's omission, but the reality is that it's a blurry line, and there is always a degree of interpretation in the implementation stage, as well as the discovery of edge cases that would have been hard to foresee from the drawing board. -
Enhancing User Experience Design: Why Watermark Product Design is Transitioning from Sketch + Abstract to Figma
Our product design team has made the strategic decision to transition from using Sketch and Abstract to Figma. Let’s explore the reasons behind this shift and how Figma empowers Watermark Product Design to deliver even more innovative and collaborative designs.
