Meanwhile, on the Internet...

Here’s Jeremy with some wise words about design systems. The generally-accepted definition of a design system is that it’s the outer circle—it encompasses pattern libraries, style guides, and any other artefacts. But there’s something more. Just because you have a […]

I have yet to dive deep into CSS-in-JS, but I’ll admit I’m skeptical. This podcast by Chris Ferdinandi lays out a lot of the reasons why I’m a bit apprehensive. Three other observations I’ve noticed as I encounter CSS-in-JS in […]

Fantastic talk slides from Trent about third-party scripts’ implications on performance. I wish I could have seen the talk in person.

A few people have gotten in touch with witty comments like “Care to comment?” It’s always fun to see people get caught up in labels and nomenclature, but ultimately I think the mental model continues to be helpful (for me […]

From Una: CSS grid is AMAZING! However, if you need to support users of IE11 and below, or Edge 15 and below, grid won’t really work as you expect (more info here). This site is a solution for you so you […]

I really appreciate Alex Lillo taking the time to write up this review of my workshop I conducted in London last week. We need teams that have enough understanding and empathy for each others’ work, that value working together instead […]

Everything you always wanted to know about implementing scrolling but were afraid to ask. We have scrolled to the bottom of modern web specifications to take you on a whirlwind tour of latest CSS and JavaScript features that make navigating around a single page smooth, beautiful and less resource-hungry. This is a […]

Card grids are definitely a common pattern in almost all my projects, and I’ve run into all of the pitfalls Dave lays out. I’ve been thinking a lot about this post ever since I read it, and I feel I […]

Finally, to repeat one more time: productivity in the wrong direction isn’t worth anything at all.  Think more about what to work on.

I love how Jon Gold’s brain works. He expresses the desire to have more systematic designs, but the process of actually making that happen is tedious and manual. But what if we could systematize the way we observe and reason […]

I love this post from Anil Dash, especially the bits about people having their own websites. There are no technical barriers for why we couldn’t share our photos to our own sites instead of to Instagram, or why we couldn’t […]

I had a great time chatting with Sagi and David about a number of topics on the Hacking UI podcast. Give it a listen!

TechCrunch announced they’re redesigning their site, which marks an end of an era at a personal level. Five years ago, myself, Josh Clark, Dan Mall, Jennifer Brook, Kristina Franz, and Jonathan Stark redesigned TechCrunch to be modern and responsive (which […]

I had the good fortune of seeing Frank‘s talk in person at MirrorConf this year, and as with all of Frank’s talks, it’s full of insight and wit. I love his perspective on the web as a medium, and agree […]

Interesting concept describing how Twitter’s UI could differentiate human and bot accounts. And hey, I make an appearance!

This great post by Mike Rivera discusses handling snowflake patterns in a design system in a way that keeps product teams productive yet also maintains the integrity of the system. He describes the possible outcomes for a snowflake: Debate over whether or […]

I love this post from Chris about websites looking the same. What’s the harm in sameness? If a website fails to do do what it sets out to do, that, I care about. Design is failing there. But if a website […]

I remember talking with Vitaly about what I thought would happen with design tools in the next year or two, and I said that we’ll finally get design and dev tools integrated into each other in a way that makes […]

I love this leaderboard ranking the performance of article template across brands. I’m also thrilled that three of the sites I helped the team at DotDash (formerly About.com) create made the Top 10!

Man, this article really hit home. I’ve been thinking about my own optimistic idealism about the web (on full display at the end of this talk), and how the events of the last few years have really knocked that optimism […]