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During my atomic design talk at Smashing Conf in Whistler, I joked that adding images of Beyoncè to your designs is a surefire way of getting approval from clients. So Chris Balt took the next logical step to come up […]

The team at education startup Future Learn used atomic design as the backbone of establishing their new pattern library. I especially love how they shared why the first stab at a pattern library didn’t work: Finding specific information was often […]

The folks at UIE have shared a video of my talk on atomic design at UXIM 2014 in Denver. I’ll be speaking and giving a full-day responsive design workshop at UX Mobile Immersion 2015 in Salt Lake City in 2015. […]

I absolutely love Dan Donald‘s thoughts on sharing: the pressure, the double-edged sword it can be, the responsibility. I love how he closes: Every time we share on the web, we have a choice. We can choose to be supportive […]

Andrew Allemann on DomainNameWire.com picked up my story about finally acquiring bradfrost.com. I’m happy about this post, as it validates a lot of my feelings about the domain buying process. Like many people in the same boat, he didn’t really […]

Drew McClellen, creator of the wonderful 24 Ways project, kicked off this year’s calendar with a great post about what it takes to make a website in this day in age. Drew asked a few people’s opinions on the topic, […]

Wake up excited is the theme for my final post for the Pastry Box Project. This is as close to poetry as I’ll ever get.

It’s so wonderful to see teams using Pattern Lab to launch successful projects. In fact, it makes me a little teary-eyed. In this case, the Harvard Business Review team used Pattern Lab to create an interface design system for their […]

Here’s an excellent guide on how to use Photoshop smarter by using linked SmartObjects. This technique, along with the new Creative Cloud Libraries, can make it easier for visual designers to craft atomic design systems in Photoshop.

A fantastic case study of designing in the open. The Guardian attributes a lot of its redesign success to the fact that they were open and sharing the whole way through. This is tremendously inspiring, especially coming from such a […]

So this is hilarious. The Chicago Sun-Times website went live with placeholder content. Not just any placeholder content, but my placeholder content! I’ve been using the grayscale images for years now (on This Is Responsive pattern demos), but added the […]

Dave Olsen (@dmolsen) nails it. In his talk at Confab EDU, Dave addresses the frustrations of our web design and development process, and how a pattern-driven workflow can help. Dave describes the many benefits of pattern-driven workflow: Patterns encourage communication […]

Viewportify by Phil Hawksworth is freaking awesome. You enter in the popular viewports from your analytics, and you’ll get a cool little visualization of those resolutions. Here’s mine!

This is great. Diego Andrés Aranda runs through how to accomplish an atomic design workflow in Photoshop. It’s in Spanish, so here’s an English translation. From what I can gather, it’s a matter of stitching together Smart Objects and organizing […]

The fine folks at BDConf whipped up this really cool sketch of me for the upcoming Orlando event. Color me flattered. Also, DIAMONDS.

I’ve really wanted to explore the Indie Web movement a lot more. Philosophically the whole thing really resonates with me, but initial cursory glances left me wondering where to start. Indiewebify.me looks like a great checklist/starting point.

I think it’s high time that we got rid of the stigma attached to “I Don’t Know”. This is especially relevant in the web development industry – where the technologies we use come and go as fast as the speed […]

Webdagene is an absolutely phenomenal conference. This year they went all out and held the conference at the massive Oslo Spektrum. I had the pleasure to give a workshop, give a talk about atomic design, and close out the conference […]

Emil Björklund wrote a very thoughtful follow-up post to my Primed and Ready to Go post about front-end prep work. Emil clarifies that it’s while it’s important to prepare as much as possible, it’s dangerous to jump in and start […]

I’ll never forget the first time I heard this song (which was also my introduction to the band). It was played during the credits of an episode of Daria, and I was totally blown away. But this was before everything […]