Encouraging Play in Design Systems
If tomorrow someone wanted to try out a radical new idea within your design system, where would that happen?… More
If tomorrow someone wanted to try out a radical new idea within your design system, where would that happen?… More
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…… More
Big responsive projects are complicated, and standardized breakpoints can help. But they can also encourage bad habits if we aren't careful. More
A project opportunity combined with my own curiosity allowed me to get a better understanding of Handlebars partials. Turns out you can do much more than I was aware of. More
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 joy. If I felt I… More
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 all ugly unicorns). One of… More
After documenting our collective inspiration in the form of Mood Boards, our next design exercise for the redesign of cloudfour.com was Element Collages. We used a few points of reference before starting our Element Collages. First was Dan… More
By now you’ve probably heard that we’re full steam ahead with a redesign of our beloved cloudfour.com, and we’re doing it in the wide open for everyone to see. This is an interesting and fun endeavor for us, being… More
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 draw from a shared well… More
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 designing a camel, we… More
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