Words that would otherwise be coming out of my mouth

The folks at Net Magazine were kind enough to write about my upcoming book called Atomic Design. I chatted with them about how I’m writing the book in the open and what I’m trying to accomplish with it.

So I am writing a book. And I am really excited about it. It’s called Atomic Design and it’s all about creating and maintaining effective interface design systems. Here’s what I’m going to cover in the book: Explain why it’s increasingly […]

2014 was an eventful year. It was my second year out on my own running my own business and settling into life in Pittsburgh. It also brought along a few bumps in the road too. First, here are the numbers: […]

Marcelo Somers responded to my style guide best practices post with some thoughts on how to keep pattern library and production CSS/JS in sync. There’s some great stuff in there, however I’ve found the CSS and JS aren’t the difficult […]

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Thanks to @nifetuc, my atomic design post has been translated to Chinese.

Style guides and pattern libraries are essential tools to help Web teams maintain sanity while creating experiences for our multi-device Web. The benefits of style guides are many: they establish a common language, make testing easier, save time and effort, […]

During my atomic design talk at Smashing Conf in Whistler, I joked that adding images of Beyoncè to your designs is a surefire way of getting approval from clients. So Chris Balt took the next logical step to come up […]

The team at education startup Future Learn used atomic design as the backbone of establishing their new pattern library. I especially love how they shared why the first stab at a pattern library didn’t work: Finding specific information was often […]

The folks at UIE have shared a video of my talk on atomic design at UXIM 2014 in Denver. I’ll be speaking and giving a full-day responsive design workshop at UX Mobile Immersion 2015 in Salt Lake City in 2015. […]

I absolutely love Dan Donald‘s thoughts on sharing: the pressure, the double-edged sword it can be, the responsibility. I love how he closes: Every time we share on the web, we have a choice. We can choose to be supportive […]

Andrew Allemann on DomainNameWire.com picked up my story about finally acquiring bradfrost.com. I’m happy about this post, as it validates a lot of my feelings about the domain buying process. Like many people in the same boat, he didn’t really […]

After 10 years, I finally secured bradfrost.com. And boy was it a huge pain in the ass. A Long, Long Time Ago Once upon a time way back in 2004, another Brad Frost (there are a few of us) registered […]

Drew McClellen, creator of the wonderful 24 Ways project, kicked off this year’s calendar with a great post about what it takes to make a website in this day in age. Drew asked a few people’s opinions on the topic, […]

Wake up excited is the theme for my final post for the Pastry Box Project. This is as close to poetry as I’ll ever get.

The team who redesigned the University of Dammam website used Pattern Lab to construct the front-end and to use it as a living style guide for the site. More from the article: An important deliverable for this project was a […]

This is why I love the Web. In a Twitter conversation sparked by someone looking for resources on style guides, we ended up in a conversation that led to a simple suggestion: @Falkowski @anna_debenham Hey you wanna put our heads […]

It’s so wonderful to see teams using Pattern Lab to launch successful projects. In fact, it makes me a little teary-eyed. In this case, the Harvard Business Review team used Pattern Lab to create an interface design system for their […]

Here’s an excellent guide on how to use Photoshop smarter by using linked SmartObjects. This technique, along with the new Creative Cloud Libraries, can make it easier for visual designers to craft atomic design systems in Photoshop.

A fantastic case study of designing in the open. The Guardian attributes a lot of its redesign success to the fact that they were open and sharing the whole way through. This is tremendously inspiring, especially coming from such a […]