Hemispatial neglect, also known as unilateral / spatial / side neglect, is a neuropsychological condition causing a lack of awareness and attention to one side of the body. This may make the patient act oblivious to one side of space, such as reading only one side of text on a website. I could find no information on design or UX for hemispatial neglect, so the ideas in this post could be breaking new ground.

For people with dyslexia reading web pages can be difficult, but there are things designers can do to make it easier. They are quite simple changes, but may require sacrificing some design freedom.

Designing for colorblindness is important as 8% of people have it. But there are many other reasons color might be hard to see so good design should be baked in from the start. A colorblind "mode" shouldn't be tacked on as an afterthought. There are several tools and techniques to help make designs better for everyone, colorblind included.

Years ago I got given a TIX clock. I like its stylish design and interesting way of representing time. Like a regular digital clock it tells time in hours and minutes, each broken up into tens and units. However instead of using characters it uses the corresponding number of lit up dots. To read the time you simply count the dots. It's slower to read, but a good conversation starter.

I've been working on a University of Hertfordshire project which aims to be used by people with a range of disabilities. There are a set of standards for this called the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Version 1 was introduced in 1999 and version 2 in 2008. As these guidelines are a W3C standard and have been around for a long time I hope designers are aware of and try to follow them whenever possible.

I wanted to add some interest to my homepage with movement. I decided to use only CSS as JavaScript seemed like overkill for a design flare. But how to create interesting animation that can seamlessly loop forever within the constraints of CSS. The problem is that CSS is a declarative styling language with no randomness. Usually it is randomness that stops animations from looking repetitive.