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

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…

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

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

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…

Exploring shiny new solutions to a classic responsive design challenge.

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.

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

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…