Meanwhile, on the Internet...

This is a brutally honest, true article about the state of web browsers. It’s unfortunate the author unnecessarily said “went full retard” (a movie reference) because the rest of the post is dead on. The stuff about Firefox rang especially […]

You know what makes me really freaking excited? All of this stuff. Get designers playing with the real thing. Take the mystery away. Get people updating and nudging in the browser. Screenshot changes, and have the “real” devs implement it. […]

we came up with a little thing we tell all our clients before they agree to work with us: “You may be hiring us, and that may be your name on the check, but we do not work for you. […]

Bruck is a lo-fi prototyping system made with web components. Quickly create and comment on interface layouts. The output is screen reader accessible, and responsive without you having to author breakpoints. Interesting. I haven’t played around with web components enough, so […]

This post by Harry does a great job of talking about the performance implications of CSS, and he shares a load of tips for avoiding big performance hits due to CSS. CSS is critical to rendering a page—a browser will […]

It’s great to see that design tools like Figma and Sketch have improved so designers can practice atomic design within them.

Rather than starting out by building out buttons and components (a mistake we made early on), focus instead on building flows and working backward from there. It took hundreds of sketches, brainstorming sessions across teams, wireframes, and mockups to arrive at […]

As a Pittsburgher, I’m naturally interested in giant machines and molten steel. Maybe that’s why I found this video fascinating.

Fantastic advice from Sara. If you don’t have a blog already, make one. Write. Publish. Share. You’ll never know how many doors one small article might open up for you. I 100% agree. And I’ve certainly been in Sara’s position […]

I meant to post this ages ago, but I really like Jeremy’s take on the overlap between design ops and design systems.

I had a fantastic time talking about what it means to be a “front-end developer” in this day in age on the always-fantastic Shop Talk Show. We talked about a role I tend to call “frontend design“, which we discuss […]

I had a great time talking with Chantastic on the React Podcast. Chantastic asks him about his recent experience learning React and the difficulty he found entering the realm of React. They talk about team communication, developing portable solutions, organizational therapy […]

The accessibility team lead of WordPress has resigned. In her post, Rian Rietveld explains some of the problems the accessibility team encountered as they tried to make the Gutenberg editor experience more accessible. It sounds like there were a lot of […]

This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline So cool. LOW←TECH MAGAZINE

The original spirit of wireframes, journey maps, comps, and the like was for exploration and to communicate ideas efficiently. They began as devices for conversation and experimentation, and in that loose context they remain as useful as ever. Over time, […]

MODALZ MODALZ MODALZ by Adrian Egger is fantastic in both its message and design.

Figure out what the main thing is people want from your site and deliver it – using the simplest, least powerful technology available. (W3C, “The Rule of Least Power”) Make it withstand hurricanes.

I just got back from the always-incredible An Event Apart conference in Orlando, and the Thunder Nerds were there interviewing the speakers. In my session, we talked about what goes into maintaining a design system. I described the importance of […]

Fantastic article by Snook about designer/developer relations. Everything that a designer draws in a Sketch or Photoshop file needs to be turned into code. Code needs to be developed, delivered to the user, and maintained by the team. That means […]

The Dark Side of Conferences by Sara Vieira shines a light on the hard reality of traveling so much for conferences and work. I find it funny that a lot of people envy me but most of the people who don’t […]