Topic: Best Practices

Web design software makers saw the pain caused by the design to developer hand off and built features to help. Unfortunately, these features don’t help as much as the software makers hope. At best, they are unwanted features to be… More

The traditional web design process hopes that static mockups—representing mobile, tablet, and desktop breakpoints—provide developers with everything they need to know to turn the designs into functional web pages. In reality, design happens between breakpoints. More

Good news: Browsers are more capable today than ever before!… More

These days, the arguments for a baseline font size of 16 pixels are widely accepted. But there are plenty of reasons to go even larger!… More

Have we solved primary navigation, or are we caught in a rut?… More

When I started giving talks about SVG back in 2016, I'd occasionally hear a question I never had a great answer for: What if you have a lot of icons on a page?… More

Of all the things that the W3C has published, my favorite is the priority of constituencies. That’s quite a statement given the W3C published the standards that form the foundation of the web and, by extension, my career. But the… More

By leveraging native browser controls, we can make accessible and high-performing components with just a dash of JavaScript. More

You may have heard that you should be “linting” your code. What does that mean? Why would you want to do it?… More

My father-in-law loves the Olive Garden. So of course that's what we offered to bring for our first post-vaccination meal. I grabbed my iPad and passed it around to build an order. Everything went smoothly until I tried to checkout. More