Dark Mode Toggles Should be a Browser Feature – Bram.us
This is a thoughtful proposal for a browser feature from Bram. Very convincing!
Link tags: toggles
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Stop Misusing Toggle Switches
Use a toggle switch if you are:
- Applying a system state, not a contextual one
- Presenting binary options, not opposing ones
- Activating a state, not performing an action
On Designing and Building Toggle Switches
Sara shows a few different approaches to building accessible toggle switches:
Always, always start thinking about the markup and accessibility when building components, regardless of how small or simple they seem.
Design Patterns on CodePen
This ever-growing curated collection of interface patterns on CodePen is a reliable source of inspiration.
Easy Toggle State
I think about 90% of the JavaScript I’ve ever written was some DOM scripting to handle the situation of “when the user triggers an event on this element, do something to this other element.” Toggles, lightboxes, accordions, tabs, tooltips …they’re all basically following the same underlying pattern. So it makes sense to me to see this pattern abstracted into a little library.
User Interfaces for Variable Fonts · An A List Apart Article
A good introduction to variable fonts, and an exploration of the possible interface elements we might use to choose our settings: toggles? knobs? sliders? control pads?