“design” Articles

Last year, I worked on a project which contained a reorderable list component – essentially, a group of items that users can rearrange in any order. Though I had no prior experience designing such a pattern, the end result worked well for our purposes. But I was sure that my lack of familiarity meant that there were improvements to the usability and experience that I could implement for the future.

As a result, I dove deep into the pattern – learning, creating, and testing versions of it to deduce as much as I could. In this article, I'm going to channel my findings into how we can create a reorderable list with a great user experience (UX).

When building interfaces, it's common to have a series of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) images that need to be aligned in some way, but the composition of the assets doesn't easily allow for it. Sometimes, you know this from the start and can plan accordingly. But other times you have to accommodate graphical changes mid-project that can be a mess to deal with.

In this article I'm going to dive into this issue and show an interesting way we can solve it by laying out our graphics a certain way in Adobe Illustrator and then displaying them on our page by modifying the CSS overflow property.