Words that would otherwise be coming out of my mouth

These are some beautiful words from Craig Mod. He describes the anxieties many people feel about technology’s strong pull on their attention. I can certainly relate.

We just watched Werner Holzog’s film, Lo and Behold, which discusses the cultural and societal effects of the Internet. It’s a fascinating film that ponders things about our digital age that deserve to be pondered. It contains some rather cute moments […]

I’m doing an Ask Me Anything on Hashnode tomorrow, so like the name implies you can ask me about anything you want. Could be about web stuff, music, personal stuff, whatever. I will answer it. I can’t make any promises […]

The fine folks at An Event Apart interviewed me about my design career, Atomic Design, and what I’m talking about at An Event Apart this year. Here’s a taste: I’ve been fascinated with how teams work together (or don’t work together!). […]

Also on this year’s reading list is a new book from the always-thoughtful Jeremy Keith. I’ve had the good fortune of hearing Jeremy speak about the web for several years now, and he always leaves me feeling incredibly inspired. I have […]

Anna has updated her book on front end style guides! The first edition was amazing, and since then we’ve had a chance to collect a lot of resources on Styleguides.io and interview people on the Style Guides Podcast. It sounds like she was […]

2016 was wraps up my fourth year running my own business. Here’s a look at what I did in 2016 by the numbers: Wrote 1 book containing 193 pages and 40,660 words. Wrote 23 posts on my blog. Shared only 11 links on my blog. […]

Like a lot of people, I’ve increasingly felt the urge to put my money where my mouth is and give to causes that I care about. Aside from a few monthly donations I’ve had set up for a while, I often find myself […]

I had a fantastic time talking with Jeffrey Zeldman on The Big Web Show podcast. It was always a dream of mine to appear on the podcast as Jeffrey has been a hero of mine for my entire career. In […]

I have great news: Atomic Design is complete and is on sale now!  You can pick which flavor of the book suits you best: Paperback for $20 Ebook for $10 Paperback + Ebook for $25 The ebook includes ePub, mobi, and PDF formats so you […]

I’m helping my client’s web development team establish some frontend guidelines as we roll up our sleeves to build a new website from the ground up. We’ve done a projects together in the past, but (naturally) they were on pretty […]

There are literally thousands of things you’re not doing right now. There’s no shortage of people telling you things you should be doing. And if you do one thing, there’s still thousands of things you’re still not doing. It’s not […]

This is phenomenal. via Adactio.

I had the opportunity to chat atomic design and a bunch of other stuff on the Thunder Nerds podcast. Check it out!

We just created a design system for a huge organization and established a CSS architecture we’re quite pleased with. It’s one of the first times I’ve ever gotten to a project’s finish line without wishing I’d done at least a […]

Brian walks Chris through Pattern Lab, including how to get it up and running, make changes to patterns, etc. Great stuff!

I kicked off the amazing Clarity Conf, a conference dedicated to style guides and design systems, earlier this year and they just posted the video of my talk. Enjoy. Or don’t. Whatever.

I had the great opportunity to chat with Chris, Dave, Val, Simon, and Richard about what goes into writing a book. It was fun to hear some the other authors all talk through the same challenges I’ve had (like competing with […]

Technically a pattern library is a simple collection of UI components, but in order for design system users do their best work, a pattern library should also present other important info. Let’s take a look at what information can be displayed alongside each pattern […]

I’m in the early days of creating a design system for a big organization. Last week I posted some of my initial form markup to Codepen: See the Pen PzEZwr by Brad Frost (@bradfrost) on CodePen. And asked for feedback […]