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Southeast European lake in peril

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Video by via Dailymotion Source The once pristine Lake Prespa on the borders of Albania, Greece and North Macedonia is under pressure from climate change, unchecked pumping and pollution at an alarming rate. Go to Source

Govt gives nod for bridge construction after 40 years in Aul

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GHMC Negligence Leads 10 years Girl Fell Into Open Nala | Kalasiguda Incident | V6 News

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Evolving Web: Roundup: Design Toolkits to Increase Team Productivity

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Evolving Web: Roundup: Design Toolkits to Increase Team Productivity
Evolving Web: Roundup: Design Toolkits to Increase Team Productivity

At Evolving Web, we love sharing knowledge and empowering professionals to do what they do better, faster and with less resistance. Our Design Team often publishes useful resources to share their expertise, best practices, and insights from projects. We’ve rounded up our pick of the best ones below. 

We’ve rounded up these resources that’ll be useful for anyone on your team, from designers and content creators to strategists and web editors. 

Jump to the sections below:

  1. How to Build a Design System
  2. How to Leverage Your Platform’s Existing Design 
  3. How to Optimize Images for Your Platform How to Make Your Images Accessible 

A computer monitor displays a collection of design assets, guides, and components.

Big brands such as Airbnb, Shopify, and Atlassian use design systems to build better digital products. Image credit: Balázs Kétyi.

How to Build a Design System

Good if you want to:

  • Improve consistency across assets
  • Increase designers’ productivity 
  • Free up time for complex, high-value tasks

Share with: 

  • Designers
  • UX strategists
  • Project managers

Design systems go beyond asset collections and pattern libraries. They’re a set of standards, style guides, and components that increase efficiency and unify your brand experience. Think of it as combining a pantry with a cookbook: you don’t have to grow your food from scratch, nor do you need to experiment to make a meal. Instead, you have a collection of ready-to-go ingredients and tried-and-tested recipes. 

With a good design system, there’s no need to create and implement digital components from scratch. This allows your designers to focus on hierarchy, flow, and more complicated features. 

Read the guide: Building a Unified Design Language System.

A graph shows productivity on the y-axis and time on the x-axis. A flat data line represents productivity levels without a design system. Another line represents productivity levels with a design system: it dips initially before rising above the other data line. 

The Design System Efficiency Curve. Productivity dips while a new design system is ramped up, but exceeds standard levels once the system is firmly in place. Credit: Callahan (2021.)

How to Leverage Your Platform’s Existing Design 

Good if you want to:

  • Help colleagues leverage your platform’s design
  • Promote UX best practices in your organization
  • Reduce poor practices that break the design

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  • Web editors
  • Content creators
  • Site admins

This guide is packed full of actionable tips to help you harness the full potential of your platform’s design and avoid common pitfalls that weaken the user experience. We explain how to create new pages using web components, develop compelling content, and use WYSIWYG for unique content needs. It’s a must-read for anyone who has admin permissions to update your site. 

Read the guide: Maintaining and Growing Your Digital Platform: UX/UI Considerations.

Images have a considerable impact on user experience. Everything from subject matter and tone to quality and composition will make an impression. Image credit: Fotis Fotopoulos. 

How to Optimize Images for Your Platform

Good if you want to:

  • Optimize images to create a more valuable user experience
  • Discover the best tools for sourcing and editing images
  • Fix common issues such as blurriness and slow load-times

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  • Designers 
  • Web editors
  • Content creators

Images are a powerful tool for enhancing the user experience, communicating your message, and connecting with audiences. The catch? They have to be spot-on. Done wrong, images can leave a poor impression, alienate users, and slow down your site. 

Read and share our guides:

Accessibility standards apply to everything on the web, including PDFs and images. Image credit: CURVD®. 

How to Make Your Images and PDFs Accessible 

Good if you want to:

  • Comply with accessibility standards and regulations
  • Improve the user experience for people with disabilities
  • Reach a broader audience with your content

Share with:

  • Designers 
  • Web editors
  • Content creators

Your digital platform may have been designed to meet accessibility standards, but what about the content that you upload to it? The standards apply to images and PDFs too, but these assets often get overlooked. 

Learn about common accessibility issues, such as using the wrong PDF rendering tools and hiding important information in images. Our guides offer tips, tools, and examples to help you provide a more inclusive digital experience to all. 

Read and share our guides:

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FSF Latin America: Bankrupt

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Bankrupt

Banking institutions have sought to automate customer service through
websites and, more recently, through TRApps.

https://www.fsfla.org/anuncio/2023-03-TRApps

What these banks are saving in offices and staff, we customers are
paying for with security and freedom. They are morally bankrupt.

Genuine security never depends on secret software. On the contrary,
transparency strengthens security.

Nevertheless, these banks impose on us, in the name of security (their
own, not ours), various harmful behaviors:

  • the use of software that we cannot control and whose actions on our
    computers are hidden from us;

  • the use of too-short passwords; and

  • the use of devices and operating systems designed to run under
    someone else’s control, and to collect and exfiltrate our data.

Running software controlled by others always implies a loss of
freedom, and a threat to security and privacy.

The requirement to use these programs has become so common and
persistent that it seems unavoidable. Thus, we have decided to expand
our campaign against imposed taxing software beyond state-controlled
institutions to also include private services and goods whose
providers converge on such impositions.

https://www.fsfla.org/anuncio/2023-04-bancarrota#softimp

We share our board member Alexandre Oliva’s recent account of his over
20 years of struggle against technological abuse by banks in his
country. We highlight his recent legal victory: online banking
services must be restored without requiring the installation of
programs other than a standard browser. Read more:

https://www.fsfla.org/texto/bancarrota

About Imposed Taxing Software

Since 2006, we have been running a campaign against imposed taxing
software: programs that are imposed in the sense that you cannot avoid
them, and taxing in the sense that they burden you in a way that
resembles a tax, but is exempt from social benefits and paid for with
your freedom.

Nonfree programs are unjust and too onerous (even when they are
nominally gratis), because they imply a loss of freedom, that is, of
control over your digital life. When this burden (of suppressed
freedom) is compounded with the imposition of use of such programs,
they become profoundly oppressive: imposed taxing software.

Our initial focus was on oppressive software imposed by governments,
such as mandatory tax-related programs and software required to
interact with public banks.

https://www.fsfla.org/circular/2006-11#Editorial

While pressuring the government to liberate income tax software in
Brazil, we have been updating and publishing a compatible and
freedom-respecting version every year since 2007.

https://www.fsfla.org/anuncio/2012-10-Acesso-SoftImp

https://www.fsfla.org/~lxoliva/fsfla/irpf-livre/

In 2023, we extended the campaign to taxing software imposed by
private providers: when freedom-depriving software is required to
obtain or enjoy products or services.

To be clear, this campaign is not (solely) about software for
taxation, but rather about software that is taxing (an unjust burden,
because it taxes your freedom; the software is itself like a tax), and
that, on top of that, is imposed, thus profoundly oppressive.

About FSFLA

Free Software Foundation Latin America joined in 2005 the
international FSF network, previously formed by Free Software
Foundations in the United States, in Europe and in India. These
sister organizations work in their corresponding geographies towards
promoting the same Free Software ideals and defending the same
freedoms for software users and developers, working locally but
cooperating globally.

https://www.fsfla.org/

Copyright 2023 FSFLA

Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
entire document without royalty, provided the copyright notice, the
document’s official URL, and this permission notice are preserved.

Permission is also granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
individual sections of this document worldwide without royalty
provided the copyright notice and the permission notice above are
preserved, and the document’s official URL is preserved or replaced by
the individual section’s official URL.

https://www.fsfla.org/anuncio/2023-04-bancarrota

The worst-selling Microsoft software product of all time: OS/2 for the Mach 20

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In the mid-1980’s, Microsoft produced an expansion card for the IBM PC and PC XT, known as the Mach 10. In addition to occupying an expansion slot, it also replaced your CPU: You unplugged your old and busted 4.77 MHz 8088 CPU and plugged into the now-empty socket a special adapter that led via a ribbon cable back to the Mach 10 card. On the Mach 10 card was the new hotness: A 9.54 MHz 8086 CPU. This gave you a 2× performance upgrade for a lot less money than an IBM PC AT. The Mach 10 also came with a mouse port, so you could add a mouse without having to burn an additional expansion slot. The Mach 20 took the same basic idea as the Mach 10, but to the next level: As before, you unplugged your old 4.77 MHz 8088 CPU and replaced it with an adapter that led via ribbon cable to the Mach 20 card, which you plugged into an expansion slot. This time, the Mach 20 had an 8 MHz 80286 CPU, so you were really cooking with gas now. And, like the Mach 10, it had a mouse port built in. According to a review in Info World, it retailed for $495. Microsoft also produced a customized version of OS/2 for the Mach 20. Despite being tailor-made for the Mach 20, it still had terrible performance problems. One of my former colleagues spoke with the person who took over from him as the support specialist for OS/2 for Mach 20. According to that person’s memory (which given the amount time that has elapsed, means that we should basically be saying “according to legend” at this point), a total of eleven copies of “OS/2 for Mach 20” were ever sold, and eight of them were returned. That leaves three customers who purchased a copy and didn’t return it. And the support specialist had personally spoken with two of them. If these numbers are accurate, I believe this makes OS/2 for Mach 20 a strong candidate for being the worst-selling actually-shipped Microsoft software product of all time. We have to find this. Someone must have a copy of OS/2 for Mach 20 in a box in the attic somewhere. This is the final boss of software preservation.