Case Study: My First Practical CSS Grid Layout
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.
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Broken Process
Here's a story we've seen play out a few times. A hypothetical designer at a hypothetical organization is tasked with mocking up some new design element…
Breakpoints: Don’t Box Me In
Big responsive projects are complicated, and standardized breakpoints can help. But they can also encourage bad habits if we aren't careful.
Fun with Staggered Transitions
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…
I tried Adobe Experience Design and it’s kind of awesome.
All the cool kids have been using Sketch for a while now. It hit a sweet spot with UI, and UX designers because of its focus on vectors and its light weight. Recently, Adobe launched…
Unsolved Problems
Is web design — or even interface design in general — a solved problem?
Responsive Images 201: Client Hints
Client Hints can make the day-to-day task of creating responsive images much easier by greatly simplifying the markup.
Designing Responsive Progressive Web Apps
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?
I Don’t Care If You Code
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…
ALA: Adapting to Input
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…