Articles by Tyler Sticka Page 2

Rethinking the way we prioritize interaction states to design more useful, versatile and delightful button patterns. More

We’re searching for an enthusiastic and talented Junior Designer to learn alongside and contribute fresh perspectives to our team of web craftspeople in downtown Portland. As a designer, you’ll work with a small, multidisciplinary team to identify problems, perform research… More

Exploring shiny new solutions to a classic responsive design challenge. More

A challenge cropped up in one of our projects that served as a simple, self-contained example of how grid layout can make things easier. More

Here's a story we've seen play out a few times. A hypothetical designer at a hypothetical organization is tasked with mocking up some new design element…… More

Big responsive projects are complicated, and standardized breakpoints can help. But they can also encourage bad habits if we aren't careful. More

It's no secret: I love SVG. But it isn't perfect. Here are some features I hope eventually come to the standard, if not in SVG 2 then in some future successor (or even a preprocessor). More

Here’s a neat little solution to a problem I encountered in my quest to use more animation in my interface design work. I was prototyping a sliding view transition between nested levels of navigation: All menu items animating… More

Is web design — or even interface design in general — a solved problem?… More

Many techniques for cropping image thumbnails on the front-end require explicit dimensions, which is less than ideal for responsive design. More