Zarina Mustapha

Zarina is the Senior Front-end Developer at the Center for Teaching and Learning. She loves solving UX problems on accessibility and inclusion. She is struggling to pare down her book collection in the sprit of Konmari.

Total: 17 articles

Thursday, May 19, 2022 is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. I use this day to share a technique that I regularly use to keep accessibility mindset present in my design and development processes: ask questions about my own browsing.

Color choice in interface design is an important component of user experience design. Colors in Locus Tempus are applied intentionally to communicate meaning in interface components, improve usability, integrate functionality and aesthetic design, and improve user engagement with the tool.

Technical stories connect the intention of use of what we’re imagining, and the reality as well as possibilities of the technology that we can build.

This post offers an approach that takes into account accessibility experience in addition to technical compliance for accessible interactive PDF documents.

I restructured and redesigned the CTL DevTeam’s website CompilED to meet web accessibility standards, and to improve its overall user experience on all devices.

Application design for accessibility and inclusion is not simply a technical implementation appended to a development process. The awareness of the learning process informs us how we should code to ensure that the intended pedagogy can be processed by everyone, with differing abilities, through all devices.

Search functionality requires a thoughtful deliberation so that the model, UI, and UX can best serve the users’ needs. This post lists some useful guiding questions for that feature.

This month, I attended and presented at the first Wagtail Space conference/sprint in the USA. Wagtail Space USA, led by the parent company Torchbox, took place on June 14th–16th at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. This post is summary of the event.