Over the past month, I participated in a workshop led by Cassie Evans and Smashing Magazine called "The SVG Animation Masterclass". It was a fantastic workshop and inspires me to do more with animations for liberate science designs in the future. Watch this space, but until then, here's some things I wanted to share with you about my journey into animated SVGs.

Communicating your brand through illustration is a fantastic way to add some personality and information without relying on boring stock photography or stuffy infographics. However, creating custom illustrations and defining an illustration system is a time consuming process.

Since the first discussions about Hypergraph, accessibility has been a priority. We recently completed an accessibility audit, and while things aren’t perfectly accessible, we know where to focus our energy. I firmly believe accessibility does more for a product than expanding the pool of potential users, but also serves as an idealized baseline of design and engineering.

Cultural and individual differences of any kind should not make it harder to use software or technology in your everyday lives. Regretfully, it still very much does, as the default is that of an able-bodied white man in an overdeveloped country.