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Dan Mall, Josh Clark, and myself partnered with the fine folks at InVision to create a video series called Design Systems: Mastering Design at Scale. In the series, we share lessons learned from our experience helping organizations create and maintain […]

Last week I made the decision to schedule every minute of my day, and wanted to share a quick update. In short, this is working out very well for me so far. A few accomplishments: I coded every day – […]

 I’m diving into React a lot more, and I’m specifically focused on making rock-solid, dumb presentational components that can be ingested by other applications. Part of making these components rock-solid is providing some definition and guardrails for the props […]

Rather than starting out by building out buttons and components (a mistake we made early on), focus instead on building flows and working backward from there. It took hundreds of sketches, brainstorming sessions across teams, wireframes, and mockups to arrive at […]

As a Pittsburgher, I’m naturally interested in giant machines and molten steel. Maybe that’s why I found this video fascinating.

Fantastic advice from Sara. If you don’t have a blog already, make one. Write. Publish. Share. You’ll never know how many doors one small article might open up for you. I 100% agree. And I’ve certainly been in Sara’s position […]

Where do you build UI code? That sounds like a dumb question, but it’s a deceptively important one. There’s a few ways to do it: UI code is authored within your application environment. If you’re working on a WordPress or Drupal […]

I meant to post this ages ago, but I really like Jeremy’s take on the overlap between design ops and design systems.

I just finished the fantastic book Deep Work by Cal Newport on the suggestion of half my Twitter feed. The book discusses the importance of doing deep work, which the author describes as: Professional activities performed in a state of […]

We’ve have had a rough last couple months. I’ll spare you the full story, but my wife and I put our lives on hold to (amongst many other things) clean out a hoarder house. According to Wikipedia: Compulsive hoarding is a […]

I had a fantastic time talking about what it means to be a “front-end developer” in this day in age on the always-fantastic Shop Talk Show. We talked about a role I tend to call “frontend design“, which we discuss […]

I had a great time talking with Chantastic on the React Podcast. Chantastic asks him about his recent experience learning React and the difficulty he found entering the realm of React. They talk about team communication, developing portable solutions, organizational therapy […]

The accessibility team lead of WordPress has resigned. In her post, Rian Rietveld explains some of the problems the accessibility team encountered as they tried to make the Gutenberg editor experience more accessible. It sounds like there were a lot of […]

I was asked this question on Twitter: @brad_frost How do you recommend a team document small decisions made on standards / design systems? Example: Button size is ___ because of ____. I don’t think we should list all of this […]

This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline So cool. LOW←TECH MAGAZINE

The original spirit of wireframes, journey maps, comps, and the like was for exploration and to communicate ideas efficiently. They began as devices for conversation and experimentation, and in that loose context they remain as useful as ever. Over time, […]

MODALZ MODALZ MODALZ by Adrian Egger is fantastic in both its message and design.

Figure out what the main thing is people want from your site and deliver it – using the simplest, least powerful technology available. (W3C, “The Rule of Least Power”) Make it withstand hurricanes.

I just got back from the always-incredible An Event Apart conference in Orlando, and the Thunder Nerds were there interviewing the speakers. In my session, we talked about what goes into maintaining a design system. I described the importance of […]

Fantastic article by Snook about designer/developer relations. Everything that a designer draws in a Sketch or Photoshop file needs to be turned into code. Code needs to be developed, delivered to the user, and maintained by the team. That means […]