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  1. 11 Nov, 2024

    Museum of Modern Fart

    Museum of Modern Fart. This is what the internet was always for.

  2. 10 Nov, 2024

    In this house…

    I made this sign to try to capture how I’m feeling about everything right now.

  3. 08 Nov, 2024

    Tim Brown: Flexible Typesetting is now yours, for free

    The great and kind Tim Brown has made his Flexible Typesetting A Book Apart book available for free.

  4. 07 Nov, 2024

    Goodbye, Twitter.

    Here’s how you can find and follow me: It’s difficult to express just how important and meaningful Twitter was to my life and career. I’m sad to leave it behind, but I have to now. It was always fun when […]

  5. 28 Oct, 2024

    Web Component continued progress

    At Big Medium, we’re fans of Web Components, and over the last 6 years have been helping our clients build standards-based, interoperable, design systems with them. The ability to deliver a consistent, cohesive experience to a any web-based technology perfectly […]

  6. 28 Oct, 2024

    Mundango

    Mundango is a simple game by Dave Rupert about noticing the small things in life. More of this please.

  7. 18 Oct, 2024

    Frostapalooza: Reflecting Two Months Later – Ian Frost Weather

    Here’s Ian’s recap of Frostapalooza. Folks didn’t just show up, but everyone was so kind and encouraging. It was never about them, it was about the show and how we could make it as fantastic as possible. The guitarists were […]

  8. 16 Oct, 2024

    Cameron’s World

    Cameron’s World is a web-collage of text and images excavated from the buried neighbourhoods of archived GeoCities pages (1994–2009). Holy shit this is amazing: Cameron’s World

  9. 16 Oct, 2024

    Hire HTML and CSS people

    Every problem at every company I’ve ever worked at eventually boils down to “please dear god can we just hire people who know how to write HTML and CSS.” This UX is awful? That UI looks old? Accessibility busted? Performance […]

  10. 15 Oct, 2024

    “The design system isn’t working for me!”

    When design system users run into issues designing and developing with the system, they often have a hard time distinguishing between a bug, a missing feature, an intentional design deviation, a new pattern they need to create, or something else. […]

  11. 04 Oct, 2024

    Why every UX/UI designer should attend a masterclass with Brad Frost | by Zoi

    Well this is just a really nice piece of flattery, and a nice breakdown of my design system masterclass I delivered at HATCH Conference in Berlin last year. I truly enjoy teaching masterclasses, running workshops, and working with teams to […]

  12. 04 Oct, 2024

    Design systems die in darkness

    When you don’t hear from teams using your design system, we’ve learned over the years that it’s typically not a sign of “everything is going great” but “something is probably wrong.” We teach our client teams to be very skeptical […]

  13. 27 Sep, 2024

    Playing at Pittsburgh Plays The Cure

    I’m happy to announce that I’ll be playing bass as part of the Pittsburgh Plays concert series on December 14th at The Roxian Theatre. From Pittsburgh Play’s website: Pittsburgh Plays is a semi-annual event that offers music lovers of all […]

  14. 26 Sep, 2024

    Approachable Open Source by Brian Muenzenmeyer

    You should buy Approachable Open Source by Brian Muenzenmeyer. If you written code before, you should buy this book. If you’ve ever spent any time on GitHub, you should buy this book. If you care about the web, you should […]

  15. 25 Sep, 2024

    Workshop: Craft AI-Powered Experiences with Sentient Design

    Now available! We offer private workshops to teach product and design teams to imagine, design, and deliver AI-powered features and products. It’s all backed by Big Medium’s Sentient Design methodology, a practical framework for designing intelligent interfaces that are radically […]

  16. 23 Sep, 2024

    SmashingConf NYC

    I’m extremely excited to be a part of Smashing Conf NYC coming up on October 7-10. I’ll be: If you’re in NYC or able to make it there, I hope you’re able to make it!

  17. 19 Sep, 2024

    The already-here future of prototyping

    I’ve spent pretty much my entire career helping teams design software rather than pictures of software. Development is design. Frontend design. Front-of-front-end code. Front-end workshop environments. Death to the waterfall. The Hot Potato process. Designer/developer collaboration. Pattern Lab. I’ve shared […]

  18. 16 Sep, 2024

    Web Components for Framework Developers – Tony Ward

    Web Components are great for building Design Systems that need to work across multiple frameworks. If you’ve been working in framework-land for quite some time now, you may find some topics confusing at first. Web Components for Framework Developers by […]

  19. 12 Sep, 2024

    Creative Exploration

    I came across this great post by my friend Cameron Moll on LinkedIn. He says: Telling designers they shouldn’t use high-fidelity designs early in the exploration process can be the equivalent of telling an artist they shouldn’t use paint and […]

  20. 11 Sep, 2024

    Popcorn Style – Meetings that make you smile.

    Source: Popcorn Style – Meetings that make you smile. There’s so much greatness on display here. Popcorn Style is a tool for running standups in a way more efficient and fun way! Here’s why I love it: Respect: we need […]