Topic: Design

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

Incorporating contrast checks into our process has fundamentally changed the way we approach color in our design systems. More

If tomorrow someone wanted to try out a radical new idea within your design system, where would that happen?… More

Rethinking the way we prioritize interaction states to design more useful, versatile and delightful button patterns. More

Google launched a big change to its permissions modal design with Chrome 63 in early December. I don’t think these changes have garnered enough attention in the web community. You may want to make some changes to your website quickly. More

Exploring shiny new solutions to a classic responsive design challenge. More

A challenge cropped up in one of our projects that served as a simple, self-contained example of how grid layout can make things easier. More

Big responsive projects are complicated, and standardized breakpoints can help. But they can also encourage bad habits if we aren't careful. More

Here’s a neat little solution to a problem I encountered in my quest to use more animation in my interface design work. I was prototyping a sliding view transition between nested levels of navigation: All menu items animating… More

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