Design, Page 4

I’ve spent years looking for tools that help designers who don’t code participate in a process like the one we use. Something that would let them reuse design system components and would allow them…

Responsive design sprints are a significantly better way to design and build for today's web than the traditional web design process. We provide the receipts. Unfortunately, not every organization can adopt this responsive design sprints. Why is that and what can be done about it?

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 ignored. At worst, they reinforce faulty assumptions that undermine design systems.

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

Responsive design broke the traditional web design and development process in fundamental ways. Despite this fact, many organizations continue to use this broken process.

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!

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

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?

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. The checkout button was off screen and impossible to hit. So I investigated why this was happening and took a guess at how much this bug might cost the Olive Garden’s owners.