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I really like these thoughts from Ben Edwards about Atomic Design and the concept of phases and metaphases as they relate to major and minor CSS breakpoints. It’s fun to see people take the science analogy further.

Here’s the video of my talk at Beyond Tellerrand in Germany, where I introduce Pattern Lab. Lots more info to come, but in the meantime you can also check out the slides.

The BBC explains the rationale behind their mobile-only responsive design and lays out their strategy as they march toward content parity. Very excited to see my slides used in the post.

They link to my For a Future-Friendly Web ALA article. That makes me extremely happy.

Well this is bizarre.

So I had the pleasure of rounding up 25 responsive design tools for the June issue of Net Magazine. While it’s being pitched as “The Top 25 Responsive Design Tools,” I would have named it “25 Tools I Think Are […]

Earlier today I shared a behemoth, morbidly obese website that weighs a whopping 85.9MB. Here’s a link to the Oakley website (warning: visit that link at your own risk). Phil Hawksworth documented this amazing specimen over at his blog. Check […]

They handed me a big microphone, so I decided to try my hand at being a fake news reporter. I meant every word I said. MMConf was a fantastic event with dedicated organizers, great speakers and a whole lot of […]

I used to play SkiFree all the time, so I thought it was really awesome how the creator has a site dedicated to it. I used to get so freaked out by the Abominable Snow Monster.

The University of York took the Brad Frost Carousel Challenge and released data about their homepage carousel interactions. They saw a large drop-off after the first panel, and discovered that removing panels actually increased engagement with the carousel area. They […]

I’ll be putting on a full-day responsive web design workshop in London on June 3rd! We’ll talk responsive strategy, process and workflow, design patterns and development considerations. We’ll share a few laughs, shed a few tears, and drink a few […]

My responsive resource library is featured on Mashable. Well I’ll be damned.

A curated project library for Hammer For Mac. Rock Hammer contains baseline typography, plus styling for common HTML elements including images, forms and tables, as well as navigation, responsive modules and widgets This is awesome stuff from Andy Clarke. Read […]

Lara Swanson, the engineering manager at Etsy, gives a great rundown of things you can do to design with performance in mind. Lots of great tips here.

Wow Lara, Chris and Dave are too nice. I recently went in to Etsy to do a workshop and Code As Craft talk, and Lara was kind enough to say that the workshop was beneficial.

Dave Rupert and I were hanging out waiting to get into Frank last night when a bizarre group of people started crowding the sidewalk. It turns out it was for some Google Glass demo and a girl wearing the neato […]

The post is in Swedish, but run it through Google Translate. Basically they did an A/B test between a carousel feature area and a non-carousel feature area. The carousel version only got a 1.96% interaction rate, while the non-carousel version […]

I had the great opportunity to go over to Freiburg, Germany at speak at the first SmashingConf. While I was there I sat down for an interview. A lot of things have changed in just a few months!

Great post looking into Amazon’s mega-menu dropdown, which shows sub-navigation items to the right of the parent category. Lots of insight and algebra around mouse cursor movement, hover state gotchas and more. Lately there’s been a lot of talk about […]

Those clever cats across the pond all got together for a day-long conference all about responsive design. The audio is out now! I know what I’m listening to today.