Posts Tagged ‘ian frost’
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02 Nov, 2023
Joining Big Medium
Well I’ll be, I’ve now been running my own business for over a decade! In January 2013 I left agency life and set out into the world of self employment. When I announced I was going to start my own company, here’s […]
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31 Mar, 2023
2023 State of Design Systems and Where We Take Them Next – Ian Frost Weather
Here’s my brother sharing how he’s seen the design system landscape since he’s started working on them. There’s a lot of good stuff here, but I especially like this part: The success of a system depends more on the people […]
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06 Feb, 2022
Finding Common Patterns Across Frameworks – Ian Frost Weather
Here’s a break down how we build components with similar conventions across many different frameworks, written by my brother Ian (@frostyweather). All of these frameworks can have similar component structure, component user APIs, properties, state management, methods/functions, lifecycles, and more. […]
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23 Dec, 2019
Making Things in December #16: Another Jam with Ian
For day 16 of making something every day in December, I recorded another jam with Ian. Like the others, there’s nothing particularly special about this recording, but what is special is the deliberate act of playing and recording music. I […]
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06 Dec, 2019
Making things in December #5: jamming with Ian
For day 4 of making something every day in December, I recorded a jam with Ian. This is a pretty typical lunchtime session for us: just a couple minutes between lunch and work to plunk around. Nothing fancy, but lots of […]
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06 Aug, 2018
3 Years of Ian
Yesterday marked Ian‘s 3-year anniversary working with me. I’m 5 and a half years into running my own business, so that means that my brother has been with me on this journey more than I’ve been going it alone. It’s […]
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13 Jun, 2018
Style Guide Guide, Gatsby Edition
We’re happy to announce Style Guide Guide, Gatsby Edition! You can check out the demo here. The workshop and the storefront There are lots of moving parts, tools, and environments involved in making a design systems take shape. We’ve found […]
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08 Jan, 2018
Brad Frost Web Turns 5 Years Old
On January 1st, 2013, I started my own company. Over the last 5 years I’ve had the opportunity to do a lot of great work with a lot of great people, travel all over the place to talk about the […]
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23 Jul, 2017
2 Frontend Designers. 12 Days. 1 Website. How We Did It
Ian wrote about our experience launching a site for Brian Forde’s congressional campaign. One of the reasons we took the project on was that I thought it would be good for Ian to get a dose of how fast-paced the […]
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08 Feb, 2017
Learning the Web Using Atomic Design
Ian wrote up some thoughts about how he came into the web industry. By way of being my brother, he had the concepts of modularity and atomic design beaten into him from Day 1 on the job. Perhaps he has […]
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26 Aug, 2015
Death to Bullshit
I’m pleased to introduce Death to Bullshit, a site and blog that explore the themes of information, bullshit, and craft. We’re bombarded by more information than ever before. With the rise of all this information comes a rise of the amount […]
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10 Aug, 2015
From Weather to Web Design: 1st Week at Brad Frost Web LLC
My brother started working for me last week. He’s a meteorologist by trade, so shifting into the world of web design and development is quite a big move for him. I’m treating this arrangement as an apprenticeship. The folks over […]