Articles by Tyler, Page 9

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…