Meanwhile, on the Internet...
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20 Apr, 2015
Death to Bullshit Logo
This is fantastic. Josh Higgins created a logo inspired by my Death to Bullshit talk.
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20 Apr, 2015
Building websites that work on an e-ink Kindle
I recently wrote about accessibility and low-powered devices and shared a story about how my wife’s cousin uses a Kindle as her primary browsing device. Chris Ferdinandi wrote a great follow-up post sharing some tips and gotchas for creating Web experiences that […]
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14 Apr, 2015
Maker Series Recap: Brad Frost
I had a fantastic time traveling to nearby Dayton OH to talk about atomic design as part of Sparkbox’s Build Right: Maker Series. It was a really fun day largely in part because the Sparkbox crew set it up to […]
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09 Apr, 2015
14 reasons you should attend one of my responsive design workshops
@benbrignell asked me to give 14 reasons why he should attend my upcoming responsive design workshop at UX London. So here are 14 reasons why you should attend one of my upcoming workshops: Unlimited pancakes New car smell Responsive design […]
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07 Apr, 2015
The Path to Performance
Katie Kovalcin and Tim Kadlec started a podcast all about web performance. Consider me sold!
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07 Apr, 2015
15 Years of Dao
John Allsopp‘s beautiful A List Apart article A Dao of Web Design is turning 15. To celebrate, A List Apart asked folks to reflect on the John’s wise words. Of course I submitted my thoughts too late (hey, that hole in the backyard isn’t […]
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02 Apr, 2015
Martin Wolf Interview
I had a great chat with Martin Wolf about my path, my career, my book, and a bunch of other web design-related topics. I think it turned out really well!
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31 Mar, 2015
Flexbox Space Jam
So I recreated the Space Jam website using flexbox. Because Eric Meyer told me to.
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31 Mar, 2015
Interview with Brad Frost
I had a great chat with David Mannheim about atomic design and a pattern-based design and development workflow.
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17 Mar, 2015
Successful Product Design, pt. 4: Atomic Design with Brad Frost
I got a chance to talk about atomic design on The Dirt podcast. I had a blast! For the fourth chapter in our series on Designing a Successful Product, we sit down with Mr. Brad Frost to discuss Atomic Design and […]
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04 Mar, 2015
Where Atomic Design Fell Short
Despite the doom-and-gloom title, this is a good article explaining how important it is to settle on a vocabulary that makes sense for the team. I will say one thing in defense of the naming structure of atomic design. Atoms, […]
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30 Jan, 2015
Soft skills advice from design leaders
Recently, design and all-around great guy Andy Pratt reached out looking for soft-skill advice for designers. Here’s what I had to say: The most important skill everyone should strive to master is to learn how to learn. No one person has […]
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25 Jan, 2015
Melissa Frost on the Creative Briefs Podcast
My wife Melissa appeared on AIGA Pittsburgh’s Creative Briefs podcast, talking about launching her new jewelry studio, Frost Finery, working on the Pittsburgh Food Bank’s website in the open, working on a redesign of Time Inc., and a whole lot more. I’m […]
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22 Jan, 2015
Atomic Design Newsletter #2
I just sent out the second edition of the Atomic Design newsletter, where I’m posting progress on the book as well as resources related to style guides and pattern libraries. If you’re interested, you can sign up here. You can […]
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21 Jan, 2015
Pattern Man
Pattern Man is an atomic-design-style approach to Middleman, brought to you by those brainiacs at Bearded. I really like the nested include approach that allows you to keep your patterns DRY, although I think I still very much prefer how […]
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13 Jan, 2015
Brad Frost’s survival guide for the modern web worker
I’m really excited to be the opening keynote speaker at Generate Conf in New York City. I’ve been thinking a lot about how not to drown in a sea of devices, technologies, and opinions, and hope to dive into that […]
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09 Jan, 2015
Unique web design book explores how interfaces fit together
The folks at Net Magazine were kind enough to write about my upcoming book called Atomic Design. I chatted with them about how I’m writing the book in the open and what I’m trying to accomplish with it.
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29 Dec, 2014
Keeping Pattern Libraries in Sync
Marcelo Somers responded to my style guide best practices post with some thoughts on how to keep pattern library and production CSS/JS in sync. There’s some great stuff in there, however I’ve found the CSS and JS aren’t the difficult […]
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29 Dec, 2014
Leading Designers Share Their New Year’s Resolutions for 2015
Make shit happen. Make shit happen. Make shit happen. Make shit happen. Make shit happen.
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27 Dec, 2014
Atomic Design in Chinese
Thanks to @nifetuc, my atomic design post has been translated to Chinese.