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Seeing David Byrne last night for the first-ever performance of Who Is The Sky was one of the best and most impactful concerts/experiences of my life.

I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with Spirits Creative on a few projects, and they surprised me by creating an absolutely phenomenal intro animation for my podcast, Wake Up Excited! I gave Dusan and Dusan (how about that for a […]

I’m thrilled to be a juror for the upcoming Design System Awards from zeroheight. Only a few more days to submit your design system for consideration!

Logoipsum provides free SVG placeholder logos to use in mockups and prototypes. I’m definitely going to be making use of this for all sorts of things. via the always-amazing Sidebar

I just visited Smart Quotes For Smart People for some copy/paste action! Shout-out to Jason Santa Maria for keeping some wonderful old-gold websites alive!

Ian sent me this clip Jamie Lee Curtis on the Tonight Show with Stephen Colbert. It is phenomenal. I adore her. I resonate with so much with what she describes here. I too am an artist. I too have struggled […]

I’m obsessed with this song by EMEFE; the build, the motif, and how it ultimately locks in is absolutely incredible. I’m diving into more of their music, but this is amazing.

Vibe code is legacy code. There’s some great stuff in this article When you vibe code, you are incurring tech debt as fast as the LLM can spit it out. Which is why vibe coding is perfect for prototypes and throwaway projects: […]

Dave’s right: always buy the $200 Yamaha. A $200 Epiphone will also suffice. This lesson I’ve learned — and apparently Chris has also learned — is that for some things spending a crap-ton more money doesn’t translate to a crap-ton more […]

Making accessibility standards easy to understand, one success criterion at a time. WCAG in Plain English is fantastic. It breaks down each WCAG standard and goes into details with beautiful headlines like: What is it? Why does it matter? Who […]

Great source of inspiration for punchy headlines: Website Headlines (dotcom) I find myself in the position of needing to write headlines, and almost never love anything LLMs come up with. This feels like great inspiration.

I like Chris waxing on design tokens and am glad our Shop Talk Show appearance gave some food for thought. While not every organization is wrestling with a Multi-All-The-Things situation, every website and app can benefit from even a lightweight […]

I had a great conversation with Jason Lengstorf on his Learn With Jason show. We talked about design tokens, the importance of design system recipes, our new course, and the need for healthier/more human/more collaborative workflows.

I appeared on the UNIQUEWAYS podcast with Thomas Girard, an interesting show where the guests are all asked the same set of questions. It was fun!

I had the pleasure of speaking with Vy Alechnavicius on the Experienced Design podcast. We had a great wide-ranging conversation!

Behold the Winamp Skin Museum! OH MAN. Winamp was such an inspiration for me; it’s so beautiful to see these skins laid out in a beautiful grid.

Eject disk. by Greg Storey is well worth your time. He’s hitting on a lot of the issues that have bubbled up in many conversations I’ve had over the last few years. What follows here isn’t a framework or a […]

I had the extraordinary honor to appear on the Design Better podcast and talk with my friends Aarron Walter and Elijah Woolery. We talked about why we’re still passionate about design systems after 12 years, the human side of design […]

There’s some fantastic UI inspiration on Fancy Components. I can already here the grumblings around practicality, accessibility, React, etc, but let’s park all that for a bit and just enjoy some fun and creative UI design.

Here’s Geoff Graham on our new Open Up show: There are a lot of feelings in tech. We feel a certain way about our jobs. We feel certain ways about certain web development techniques. We feel certain things about the landscape of […]