Topic: Design

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

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

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

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

After months of redesigning in public, we’ve finally pushed the button that unleashed the new cloudfour.com on the world. For me, this project has been a dream come true. I was a fan of Cloud Four long… More

After documenting our collective inspiration in the form of Mood Boards, our next design exercise for the redesign of cloudfour.com was Element Collages. We used a few points of reference before starting our Element Collages. First was Dan… More

Back in the heady days of the .com boom when my cofounders and I all worked at Kavi Corporation, we had a number of technical standards-setting organizations as clients. As proof of industry support for their standards, almost all of… More

A frequent question that product owners face is whether not someone will do a particular activity on a mobile device or not. In my experience, people often arrive at two answers based on context. When looking at your own product:… More

Even before smartphones came along and dashed any hope for a 960-pixel-wide web, designers and organizations have struggled with the challenge of prioritizing and composing content that scrolls. Our screens act like windows to content of variable… More