Posts in ‘link’ Category

Size of Life by Neal Agarwal is absolutely beautiful, incredible, and informative. Web design inspiration at its finest.

A big part of our chat circled around authenticity and self-worth. A few questions we touched were: How easy is it to overlook your own achievements? How strange does it feel to work alone so much? How often do we […]

On the latest episode of Wake Up Excited! , I talk with my good friend Marc Thiele. Marc is the organizer of the Fantastic Beyond Tellerrand conference that happens every year in Germany. I really feel like Beyond Tellerrand should be […]

CSS Wrapped 2025 is a super fun website that shows off the latest and greatest CSS features. The website’s got some fun light/dark mode action going on too!

I’m super excited to talk about the potent combination of AI and design systems with my pal Dominic Nguyen and the folks at Storybook this Thursday. I got to huddle with Dom today, and this is something that’s going to […]

Being a fan is all about bringing the enthusiasm. It’s being a champion of possibility. It’s believing in someone. And it’s contagious. When you’re around someone who is super excited about something, it washes over you. It feels good. You […]

We rendered over 1 million of the web’s top homepages. This is the result. Zoom, pan and click to explore – like Google Maps. Source: One Million Screenshots

A few months ago, I had the privilege of being interviewed on the Design Systems Collective by Shane P Williams. This interview captures a lot of my current thinking about design systems, our design tokens course, collaboration, recipes, and more.

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and migrated offshore. Scientists Retrace 30,000-Year-Old Ocean Voyage, in a Hollowed-Out Log. I freaking love this. “Learn by doing” taken to the extreme.

A browser extension for avoiding AI slop.  Download it for Chrome or Firefox. This is a search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT’s first public release on November 30, 2022. Since the public release of ChatGTPT and […]

I got to talk with Seth Casana on the Wake Up Excited! podcast. I’d love it if you check it out and consider subscribing to the show! At first glance, Seth Casana is a very unassuming, normal guy. But that […]

The new episode of Wake Up Excited! features the ultra-talented and ultra-enthusiastic Rebecca Garza Bortman! We have a fantastic conversation where we discuss the importance of family, how music and the arts can make you immortal, her and her husband’s […]

I had a lot of fun talking with Arseni Harkunou on the Product Craft podcast. We cover a ton of ground! What “good” means in the age of AI and the real role of a designer Practical advice on transitioning […]

This is absolutely incredible.

There’s some great thinking about color systems, tokens, and the relationship between brand and product in this article: When Color Meets Constraints: A Guide to Brand–Product Collaboration

Working in tech means being comfortable with change and uncertainty. Successfully working in tech means not letting change and uncertainty paralyze you. Forge ahead on the best information you have, and be prepared to change direction as needed. Amen. How […]

Seeing David Byrne last night for the first-ever performance of Who Is The Sky was one of the best and most impactful concerts/experiences of my life.

I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with Spirits Creative on a few projects, and they surprised me by creating an absolutely phenomenal intro animation for my podcast, Wake Up Excited! I gave Dusan and Dusan (how about that for a […]

I’m thrilled to be a juror for the upcoming Design System Awards from zeroheight. Only a few more days to submit your design system for consideration!

Logoipsum provides free SVG placeholder logos to use in mockups and prototypes. I’m definitely going to be making use of this for all sorts of things. via the always-amazing Sidebar

I just visited Smart Quotes For Smart People for some copy/paste action! Shout-out to Jason Santa Maria for keeping some wonderful old-gold websites alive!

Ian sent me this clip Jamie Lee Curtis on the Tonight Show with Stephen Colbert. It is phenomenal. I adore her. I resonate with so much with what she describes here. I too am an artist. I too have struggled […]

I’m obsessed with this song by EMEFE; the build, the motif, and how it ultimately locks in is absolutely incredible. I’m diving into more of their music, but this is amazing.

Vibe code is legacy code. There’s some great stuff in this article When you vibe code, you are incurring tech debt as fast as the LLM can spit it out. Which is why vibe coding is perfect for prototypes and throwaway projects: […]

Dave’s right: always buy the $200 Yamaha. A $200 Epiphone will also suffice. This lesson I’ve learned — and apparently Chris has also learned — is that for some things spending a crap-ton more money doesn’t translate to a crap-ton more […]

Making accessibility standards easy to understand, one success criterion at a time. WCAG in Plain English is fantastic. It breaks down each WCAG standard and goes into details with beautiful headlines like: What is it? Why does it matter? Who […]

Great source of inspiration for punchy headlines: Website Headlines (dotcom) I find myself in the position of needing to write headlines, and almost never love anything LLMs come up with. This feels like great inspiration.

I like Chris waxing on design tokens and am glad our Shop Talk Show appearance gave some food for thought. While not every organization is wrestling with a Multi-All-The-Things situation, every website and app can benefit from even a lightweight […]

I had a great conversation with Jason Lengstorf on his Learn With Jason show. We talked about design tokens, the importance of design system recipes, our new course, and the need for healthier/more human/more collaborative workflows.

I appeared on the UNIQUEWAYS podcast with Thomas Girard, an interesting show where the guests are all asked the same set of questions. It was fun!