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

Client Hints can make the day-to-day task of creating responsive images much easier by greatly simplifying the markup. More

Progressive Webs Apps versus native misses the point. Here is a simple case for Progressive Web Apps that even native app developers can agree with. More

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

A project opportunity combined with my own curiosity allowed me to get a better understanding of Handlebars partials. Turns out you can do much more than I was aware of. More

Designing responsive Progressive Web Apps forces us to tackle design challenges that we’ve been been able to side-step thus far. What do users expect from these new apps?… More

I’ve been experimenting lately with a new way to apply color values in my CSS. Instead of setting explicit values for each color, I calculate the entire palette from a small set of base colors. It’s not an applicable solution… More

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 joy. If I felt I… More

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 we’d started or contributed to… More

Today, A List Apart published a little something I wrote entitled Adapting to Input. It is truly an honor to be an author for such an esteemed publication…… More