Philosophy, Page 3

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

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…

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

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…

Spending the last few days in New York City for Smashing Conference reminded me of an analogy for Mobile First Design that seems to resonate with people. If you’ve made your life fit in…

As part of the redesign, we’ve been trying to nail down the general positioning for our business. That is, what makes us the special unicorn that we think we are (or maybe we’re…

I have always considered myself a “designer who codes”. I enjoy that aspect of the web, even while in a purely visual design role. Not too long ago, in a previous visual design position I…

Our team had a set of defining characteristics and was almost ready to start redesigning cloudfour.com. But before we dived into element collages (more on that in a future post), we wanted to…

When we started redesigning cloudfour.com, I knew I wanted the entire team to feel a sense of ownership in the end result. To establish an inclusive design direction without…