Words that would otherwise be coming out of my mouth

Here’s Geoff Graham on our new Open Up show: There are a lot of feelings in tech. We feel a certain way about our jobs. We feel certain ways about certain web development techniques. We feel certain things about the landscape of […]

20 YEARS AGO TODAY, Melissa and I started dating. I’m 40, which means that I’ve now spent more of my life with Melissa than without. This will be true for the rest of our lives, and I will love every […]

Some great thoughts here from Scott Berkun: It’s good to buy books even if you don’t end up reading them. Why? 1. It supports authors who made something that interests you 2. It signals to publishers there is market for […]

My friend Eva Lin Douglass wrote a beautiful children’s book: The Light in You.  Deep within you is a very special spark. It’s a Light you are born with that never goes dark. If there’s a message kids (and let’s […]

Last week we held our first episode of Open Up, a new advice show I’m hosting with my fantastic co-host Geoff Graham and my good friends at SmashingConf. We had a wonderful inaugural episode, with over 80 people joining us […]

“I honestly kind of cringe seeing how Maddy just goes along with what naturally appeals to her,” said local woman Kelly Olsen, who scoffed at how Derry’s taste in everything from clothing to movies and music appears to be dictated […]

Wired has a solution — it’s going to stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. This approach makes a lot of sense from the standpoint of civil duty. They’re called […]

This is awesome. Artist Marina Kappos created a whole series of symmetrical paintings inspired by her relationship with her twin sister. This resonates with me as my mom is a twin. And is also an art teacher! But also! My […]

Introducing Frosty Nightz, a semi-regular jam session in the 1974 time machine that is my basement. The idea: Get musical people together, eat, drink, play music, and have fun. That’s it. That’s the whole thing. No bigger project. No ulterior […]

This is the first part of a series that attempts to capture my current thinking about The Situation. TL;DR: Our attention has been hijacked and weaponized. It is imperative for us to to direct our attention to healthier and more […]

We’re cooking with gas on our Subatomic design tokens course and are gearing up for a really big milestone! We’re about to launch Chapter 4, which details the nuts and bolts of building out a token system in Figma and […]

If you get a chance to go see Sheng Wang perform, do it. It was easily the best comedy show I’ve ever been to. We watched his Netflix special Sweet & Juicy and was hooked immediately. When we saw he […]

OH HELL YEAH: designtokens.fyi by Donnie D’Amato is a mega-helpful glossary of design tokens terms.

I’m so freaking excited to announce my new music project: Cold Album Drumming! Be sure to smash that subscribe button on YouTube 😂 and vote on the albums you’d like to hear me play. What the heck is “Cold Album […]

The team that built the U.S. Web Design System, along with many many many other important digital initiatives for the United States of America, was just eliminated. We’re not done yet. We’re still absorbing what has happened. We’re wrestling with […]

Do you love having to name things? Of course you don’t! That’s why we’re so excited to announce that Chapter 3 of our Subatomic Design Tokens Course is now live! We have a FULL HOUR AND A HALF of video […]

“Would you like your picture taken?” Why does simple question — probably cheerfully asked by a smiling young adult with a camera around their neck — flood us with so much dread? We mumble and stammer over an awkward response, […]

I just became aware of Future Fonts, which is “where type designers sell fonts-in-progress. Despite not actively being in the market to buy fonts, I ended up buying this beauty called Mayonnaise and swapping out a boring-in-retrospect Google Font for […]

I’m thrilled to announce that I’m doing a new advice show/series called Open Up I’m doing with my good friends at Smashing Magazine! I found that it’s often easier for people to talk about tools and technologies and trends than […]

OMG. Life perspective through UI. I freaking love it. Check out My Life in Weeks by Gina Trapani