Cooperative Design Systems
Strategies for when the goals of your project, team or users diverge from those of an established design system.
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A Quick Update on Our SVG Icon Process
Our techniques evolve with each new project, and SVG icons are no exception!
Tips for Portable Patterns
Strategies for sharing HTML, CSS and JavaScript patterns between seemingly disparate projects or platforms.
Homework I Gave Web Designers
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…
Encouraging Play in Design Systems
If tomorrow someone wanted to try out a radical new idea within your design system, where would that happen?
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.
The hidden power of Handlebars partials
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.
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…
Client Engagement the Cloud Four Way
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…