Design, Page 6

I re-learned an old design lesson from the humble toilet flusher. As new features are added to existing technologies, careful design is required to make their usage clear.

Movement in nature doesn’t happen all at once. Imagine a flock of birds taking off, raindrops splashing on the ground, or trees bending in the wind. The magic of these moments comes from many small…

I recently worked on a project where the topic of variable fonts came up when discussing typeface legibility. I had heard the term before, but I wasn’t quite sure what a variable font was. Curious, I did…

I accidentally became Cloud Four's resident expert on dynamic circular containing elements. Here are my tips and tricks.

Strategies for when the goals of your project, team or users diverge from those of an established design system.

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.

If you’ve ever had to edit a project before (yours or someone else’s), you’ve definitely thought at some point: “What am I even looking at?” Enter Prettier, the new tool to transform…