Search Results for ‘atomic design’
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08 Jun, 2015
Style Guide Best Practices Presentation
I recently spoke at An Event Apart in San Diego where I presented on the whys, whats and how’s of style guides. Here are the slides: And here are some resources I reference in the talk: Style Guide Types […]
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07 Jun, 2015
I Have No Idea What The Hell I Am Doing
I recently had the opportunity to be the opening keynote at Generate Conf in New York City. I got a chance to talk about dealing with uncertainty of the future. Here is the video of the talk: And here’s the transcript: Thank you. How’s […]
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24 May, 2015
Ben Brignell’s #uxlondon sketchnotes
Ben Brignell’s sketch notes from my atomic design talk at #uxlondon.
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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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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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22 Mar, 2015
Email Responses #1: Workflow & Client Education
Note: I’m going to start posting some of my email responses to people here on my blog. I think a lot of people’s questions are valuable and think they’re worthy of a broader discussion. And I hope the advice I’m […]
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05 Jan, 2015
2014
2014 was an eventful year. It was my second year out on my own running my own business and settling into life in Pittsburgh. It also brought along a few bumps in the road too. First, here are the numbers: […]
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18 Dec, 2014
Placebeyoncè
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 […]
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17 Dec, 2014
Future Learn Pattern Library
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 […]
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24 Nov, 2014
University of Dammam build blog part 1: Using Drupal’s Panopoly distribution and Pattern Lab
The team who redesigned the University of Dammam website used Pattern Lab to construct the front-end and to use it as a living style guide for the site. More from the article: An important deliverable for this project was a […]
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18 Nov, 2014
Using linked SmartObjects in combination with Layercomps in Photoshop CC
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.
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17 Jun, 2014
Consulting
I help companies of all shapes and sizes navigate our ever-expanding, always-crazy multi-device Web landscape. I bring industry best practice, hard-earned experience, and pragmatic guidance to organizations to help them effectively solve user and business problems. Here’s some of the things I can help […]
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26 May, 2014
Concurrent
Our eyes are amazingly complex systems, so naturally they’ve been a favorite topic for evolutionary biologists and other scientists for quite some time. Our eyes produce multiple visual systems that give our brains information that help us interpret our surroundings. […]
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12 Feb, 2014
Yelp’s Style Guide
Yelp just released their style guide, and it looks really helpful for their team. And they were kind enough to give atomic design a shout out!
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22 Jan, 2014
Creating Responsive Interfaces
I had a blast talking to Jared Spool about This Is Responsive, atomic design, and Pattern Lab on the UIE podcast. I’m going to be doing a full-day workshop about responsive design, atomic design, and more at the UX Immersion […]
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30 Dec, 2013
2013
On the first day of 2013 I took the big leap into the land of self-employment. I’m about to celebrate one year out on my own, so I thought I’d share how things are going. First, the numbers: Launched 2 […]
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16 Dec, 2013
The Part and The Whole
Recently I’ve seen some confusion about designing interface patterns and pattern libraries, and have had a lot of conversations with design/development teams who are struggling with the concept of breaking interfaces down into their component parts. I don't understand the […]
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21 Nov, 2013
ish. 2.0
I’m happy to introduce ish. 2.0. For the uninitiated, ish. is yet another viewport resizing tool. It’s called “ish.” because it focuses on general ranges (small-ish. medium-ish. large-ish.), rather than popular device widths. It’s our jobs as web designers to […]
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18 Nov, 2013
Scope Components, Not Pages
Recently, the always-brilliant Scott Jehl wrote a post titled Grade components, not browsers. In his post, Scott explains that grading browser support is an ineffective way of determining what experience a particular device/browser should get. Instead, the Filament Group grades […]
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18 Nov, 2013
Techcrunch
Earlier this year I had the amazing opportunity to create a responsive site for TechCrunch. I got shot out of a cannon at the beginning of 2013. I had been contemplating going out on my own for a while, so […]
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14 Oct, 2013
Entertainment Weekly
Earlier this year I had the tremendous opportunity to create a responsive mobile site for Entertainment Weekly. I was privileged to work with some ridiculously talented people on this project: Josh Clark was our fearless leader. He assembled the team, […]
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05 Sep, 2013
Starting to Write CSS
David Walsh takes a look at Atomic Design through the lens of CSS architecture. Some interesting thoughts here.
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20 May, 2013
FAQ
I get a whole load of email–same as you! Like most sane people, I try to reduce the amount of time I spend in my email every day. This FAQ page is my attempt to answer some of the questions […]
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08 Oct, 2009
Contact
Thanks for wanting to get in touch! Want to work together? I’m a principal and technical strategist at Big Medium, where we help organizations solve big problems with design systems. If you are interested in working with us, email me […]
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05 Oct, 2009
About
Brad Frost is a design system consultant, front-end developer, speaker, writer, musician, and artist located in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. As a principal and design system consultant at Big Medium, he helps teams establish and evolve design systems, establish more collaborative […]
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27 Jun, 2023
No Handoff: close the gap between product and engineering
I love this initiative from Shamsi Brinn: No Handoff: close the gap between product and engineering. Imagine a project where teams work together at each stage, progressively improving the end result based on qualitative and quantitative data. Project handoff is […]
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28 Jan, 2022
Creative Process Lessons from ‘Get Back’
If you get a chance to watch Get Back, do it. It’s absolutely incredible. It’s as close as anyone’s going to get to being a fly on the wall and witnessing The Beatles’ creative process. Here’s a taste: The Beatles […]
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09 Dec, 2019
Level of Effort
I’m always amazed by the level of effort involved in web design/development. Adding a simple button to a UI can translate to weeks or even months of work. Behind every little bit of UI is a giant iceberg of technology […]
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06 Dec, 2018
Big ol’ Ball o’ JavaScript
Heydon Pickering published a fantastic post called Reluctant Gatekeeping: The Problem With Full Stack. I have about 3 blog post drafts covering similar ground and apparently we see very much eye-to-eye on this, so I thought it might be worthwhile […]
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01 Nov, 2018
A Frontend Workshop Environment
Where do you build UI code? That sounds like a dumb question, but it’s a deceptively important one. There’s a few ways to do it: UI code is authored within your application environment. If you’re working on a WordPress or Drupal […]