Articles by Tyler, Page 6

Exploring shiny new solutions to a classic responsive design challenge.

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.

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…

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).

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…

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

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

Confession: I don’t enjoy code. Not really. I know that sounds strange coming from someone who’s made over 2,000 code contributions this year. But it’s true: code, in and of itself, brings me little…

Shortly after we opened up Drizzle, our pattern library framework, Luke Askew started a wonderful discussion of pattern library maintainability in that project’s repository. This inspired me to reflect on the pattern libraries…