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24 Jul, 2024
“Interviewing Users” book giveaway, upcoming AMAs, free Frostapalooza đ¸ tix, and more…
This is so great!: The Design Better Podcast is doing a Frostapalooza ticket giveaway! You may have been a part of our recent AMA with Brad Frost, where we learned that heâs hosting a benefit concert this summer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania […]
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01 Jul, 2024
Design Downtime – Brad Frost Loves to Play Music
đ¸ I had a fantastic conversation with Guy Segal on the Design Downtime podcast about my love of playing music. We talked about: My musical background The beauty and role of the bass guitar The importance of having hobbies for […]
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14 Jun, 2024
Sidebar is taking a break
Sidebar is taking a break. đ Ah man, this makes me so sad. Sidebar has been my number 1 way to keep up to speed with the web, design, and beyond for the last decade. I love it so much. […]
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04 Jun, 2024
Sentient Design: AI and the Next Chapter of UX – Big Medium
This is an absolute must-read/watch for any designer or design leader navigating this wild new AI world. Josh Clark is second to none at demystifying this new crop of technologies, demonstrating how to wield AI as a design material, and […]
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22 May, 2024
Every Sample from Paulâs Boutique by the Beastie Boys
One of my all-time favorite albums. Fantastic to listen to all of the source material. This video catalogs every borrowed sample from Paulâs Boutique by the Beastie Boys, from the soundtrack to Car Wash to the Sugarhill Gang to the […]
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17 May, 2024
The age of average (encore) â Alex Murrell
The age of average (encore) by Alex Murrell is a wild analysis of how the technology landscape has changed the shape of music. “Media has always shaped music,” the author states, (David Byrne’s How Music Works is a wonderful book […]
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17 May, 2024
Code & Pixels
The Code & Pixels podcast is A podcast about turning pixels into code. hosted by Adekunle Oduye & Kelly Harrop. I’m excited to dig into this as there aren’t a ton of resources specific to us front-of-the-front-end developers.
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16 May, 2024
Generative AI Is Totally Shameless. I Want to Be It
What I love, more than anything, is the quality that makes AI such a disaster: If it sees a space, it will fill itâwith nonsense, with imagined fact, with links to fake websites. It possesses an absolute willingness to spout […]
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03 May, 2024
The Weather Channel’s Local on the 8’s Throughout The Years
Our family was raised on The Weather Channel. So much so that Ian became a meteorologist. So this video that steps through the Local on the 8s over the years gives me all the nostalgic feels.
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25 Apr, 2024
Design Systems Smashing Magazine Discussion, April 2024
I had a fantastic time chatting with a group of design system wizards, Nathan Curtis and Ben Callahan. Geoff Graham did a great job facilitating the conversation, and we covered a lot of ground!
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24 Apr, 2024
Itâs the End of the Web as We Know It
Here’s a pretty damning read about LLMs’ impact on the web. Just how SEO produced an extremely lucrative-yet-icky industry, optimizing web content for AI models seems inevitable. SEO will morph into LLMO: large-language-model optimization, the incipient industry of manipulating AI-generated […]
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10 Apr, 2024
The Component Gallery
There have been tons of design system roundup sites over the years, but The Component Gallery by Iain Bean is particularly well designed and fun.
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10 Apr, 2024
The Value of Design Tokens in Modern Web Development | Southleft, LLC
Here’s my pal and frequent collaborator TJ Pitre with The Value of Design Tokens in Modern Web Development. TJ’s post is a good overview of design tokens and the various aspects of working with them in a web development workflow.
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02 Apr, 2024
Brad Frost on Adaptable Design Systems | Design Systems Podcast
I had a great chat with Chris Strahl on the Design Systems Podcast, and we covered a lot of ground! We sit down with Brad Frost, a leading voice in design systems. Together, we explore the critical intersection between adaptable […]
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01 Apr, 2024
Front-end developmentâs identity crisis – Elly Loel
Iâm not a â[full-stack] developerâ, regardless of what my last job title says. Iâm not even a front-end developer, thanks to the JavaScriptâindustrial complex. Iâm a front-of-the-front-end developer, but thatâs too long. So, Iâm a web designer. And I also […]
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22 Mar, 2024
Deep Dive with Brad Frost â The new frontier of design systems
If youâve dabbled in design systems then youâre no doubt familiar with Brad Frost and atomic design. Heâs laid the foundation for design systems teams around the world. So in this discussion we talk about the types of challenges he […]
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22 Mar, 2024
Adactio: JournalâWhat the world needs
Here are some beautiful words from Jeremy. So write! Share! Publish! But you know what? Screw what the world needs. If weâre going to be hardnosed about this, then the world doesnât need any more books. The world doesnât need […]
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19 Mar, 2024
Design Systems WTF #12: A Global Design System
Luke and Michelle dive into the pros and cons of the idea of a global design system.
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15 Mar, 2024
Are We Watching The Internet Die?
As we speak, the battle that platforms are fighting is against generative spam, a cartoonish and obvious threat of outright nonsense, meaningless chum that can and should (and likely will) be stopped. In the process, they’re failing to see that […]
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15 Mar, 2024
Design Systems: From Atomic Design to a Global Solution
I was recently a guest on the CodingCatDev podcast, where we covered a lot of ground around design systems, including the design system ecosystem, the idea of a Global Design System, and many of the challenges teams face when creating […]