Articles by Tyler Sticka Page 7
Icon Fonts: Mind the Baseline
Earlier this week, I made my first custom icon font using IcoMoon (implemented with Filament Group’s “bulletproof” technique). I set my grid sizes and exported, but all the icons felt a little higher than I wanted them… More
The Pitfalls of UI Kits and Pattern Libraries
When I wrote Common Patterns in Styleguides, Boilerplates and Pattern Libraries back in May, I honestly didn’t know if anyone would find something as pedestrian as a spreadsheet that interesting. It was great to discover I’d at least partially… More
SimpleSlideView: Our Plugin for the Simplest of Sliding Views
Sliding views (incoming views that “push” old ones off-screen) have become so commonplace in mobile design we tend to take them for granted. They’re useful because they allow content to be broken into bite-sized chunks while maintaining hierarchy through the… More
Hide/Show Passwords: The Missing Plugin
It’s easy to take the “masking” of passwords (replacing characters with ••••) for granted. As Luke Wroblewski documented last November, this practice increases login failures while providing little-to-no security benefit. Here’s the alternative Luke and his team built into… More
Common Patterns in Styleguides, Boilerplates and Pattern Libraries
It’s hard to believe it’s been almost three years since the publication of Ethan Marcotte’s seminal Responsive Web Design article on A List Apart. The ideas and techniques described therein blew our minds while forcing us to drastically reconsider our design processes. More
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