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Strategies for when the goals of your project, team or users diverge from those of an established design system. More

A technique for overcoming touch target size and content clipping issues with pill-shaped and circular buttons. More

We’re looking for an experienced front-end developer to lead our growing team of developers here in Portland OR. You should have a solid understanding—and years of experience in—the building blocks of the web: HTML, CSS and JavaScript. We also expect… More

Our techniques evolve with each new project, and SVG icons are no exception!… More

Strategies for sharing HTML, CSS and JavaScript patterns between seemingly disparate projects or platforms. More

So you’ve got a pattern library: Congratulations! The next step is making it possible for other people to use those patterns. You could simply provide download links for the CSS and other assets, but then your users can’t easily get… More

When I first started learning web development I thought hiding content was simple: slap display: none; onto your hidden element and call it a day. Since then I’ve learned about screen readers, ARIA attributes, the HTML5 hidden attribute,… More

From 2008 through 2010 I taught Internet Typography and Web Standards courses part-time at a local art school. One of my goals was to balance students’ understanding of the web’s constraints with its potential. Too much focus on the former… More

Chrome is introducing an opaque response-type visual indicator hoping to shed some light on exceeded storage quota errors when caching opaque responses. More

The book I spent the last year of my life working on is finally out. It’s called Progressive Web Apps and it is available in paperback and ebook formats. I wrote the book for teams grappling with what progressive… More