Posts Tagged ‘notes’
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05 Apr, 2016
Clarity Conf: Designing for Earthlings and Astronauts
At Clarity Conference in San Francisco, Richard Danne discussed his long experience creating style guides for massive organizations. Here are my notes from his talk: Richard didn’t invent the style guide, but worked on the NASA style guide, which was one of the […]
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05 Apr, 2016
Clarity Conf: Living Systems: Brand in the context of peoples lives.
At Clarity Conference in San Francisco, Jeremy Perez-Cruz talked about the human elements that go into great brand systems. Here are my notes: Jeremy founded Etsy’s global brand design studio, and he believes the future of branding is in-house. After that, he went […]
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02 Apr, 2016
Clarity Conf: Baking Accessibility In
At Clarity Conference in San Francisco, Cordelia McGee-Tubb talked about building accessibility into design systems. Here are my notes: Cordelia is an accessibility specialist at Dropbox and used to work at Salesforce. Accessibility is creating experiences that anyone can use regardless […]
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02 Apr, 2016
Clarity Conf: Communicating Animation
At Clarity Conference in San Francisco, Rachel Nabors talked about UI animation and how to document animation within a design system. Here are my notes: Rachel has worked on Dev Tools Challenger, Alice in Videoland, and helped with the motion portion of Salesforce’s […]
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02 Apr, 2016
Clarity Conf: Being Human, Being Slack
At Clarity Conference in San Francisco, Anna Pickard discussed everything that goes into creating a cohesive voice and tone at Slack. Here are my notes: Anna works at Slack, and is tasked with making a style guide to deal with the company’s fast […]
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02 Apr, 2016
Clarity Conf: Crawl, Walk, Run – the Evolution of a Design System
At Clarity Conference in San Francisco, Stephanie Rewis & Brandon Ferrua discussed the creation of the CSS framework that’s part of Salesforce’s Lightning Design System. Here are my notes: Salesforce has 20,000 employees and has made lots of acquisitions. There are internal developers […]
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02 Apr, 2016
Clarity Conf: Code Patterns for Pattern-Making
At Clarity Conference in San Francisco, Miriam Suzanne talked about establishing patterns to make your codebase easy to document and maintain. Here are my notes from her talk: Miriam works at Oddbird and is the creator of Susy amongst many other web tools. Patterns lead to […]
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01 Apr, 2016
Clarity Conf: Deconstructing Web Systems; or, A Pattern Language for Web Development
At Clarity Conference in San Francisco, Claudina Sarahe discussed the many types of patterns that make up frontend web systems. Here are my notes: Claudina works on Casper on their design system. Patterns are a collective memory of things which work in our […]
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01 Apr, 2016
Clarity Conference: Beyond the Toolkit: Spreading a System Across People & Products
At Clarity Conference in San Francisco, Nathan Curtis talked about making design systems and how to make sure they take root at your organization. Here are my notes: Google hit a home run with Material Design, but is it all really […]
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31 Mar, 2016
Clarity Conf: Building empowering style guides with practical research
At Clarity Conference, a conference all about design systems and style guides (!) in San Francisco, Isaak Hayes & Donna Chan describe their process for creating a style guide at AppDirect. Here are my notes: Style guides should be usable for […]
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22 Oct, 2013
Atomic Design
Luke Wroblewski wrote up some notes about my atomic design talk at Breaking Development Conference.
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09 Sep, 2013
Smashing Conf: Responsive Web Design is Easy/Hard
Dan Mall just gave a phenomenal talk about responsive web design process. I’ve had the pleasure of working with Dan on a few projects this year and he really knows how to communicate this new design process to clients and […]
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27 Aug, 2013
An Event Apart: Atomic Design
I had the pleasure of meeting Arina Thorén in Stockholm Sweden just a week ago, so it’s fantastic she was able to make it over to Chicago for An Event Apart. Here’s her notes from my talk on atomic design.
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27 Aug, 2013
An Event Apart: Atomic Design
Here’s Luke Wroblewski’s notes on my talk at An Event Apart in Chicago.