Every Nav I Design Looks the Same
Have we solved primary navigation, or are we caught in a rut?
Responsive Web Design, Page 4
A Bashful Button Worth $8 Million
My father-in-law loves the Olive Garden. So of course that's what we offered to bring for our first post-vaccination meal. I grabbed my iPad and passed it around to build an order. Everything went smoothly until I tried to checkout. The checkout button was off screen and impossible to hit. So I investigated why this was happening and took a guess at how much this bug might cost the Olive Garden’s owners.
Responsive Images the Simple Way
The responsive images spec is fantastic and covers a lot of use cases, but most of the time you’ll only need one: resolution switching using the `srcset` and `sizes` attributes.
Spoiled by the Web
A frustrating struggle to keep a tiny native app alive reminds me why I appreciate the web.
Time to Update Your Permissions UX
Google launched a big change to its permissions modal design with Chrome 63 in early December. I don’t think these changes have garnered enough attention in the web community. You may want to make some…
What Progressive Web App features will Apple support?
What Progressive Web Apps features should we expect Apple to support?
Breaking Out With CSS Grid Layout
Exploring shiny new solutions to a classic responsive design challenge.
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.
State of Responsive Images 2017
Tomorrow I’m speaking at ImageCon. It’s been over a year since I last gave my talk. As I dusted off my presentation and updated it, it seemed like a good time to assess the…
Measuring The Washington Post’s Progressive Web App
Yesterday, I examined how The Washington Post’s Progressive Web App performs on iOS. Today, I want to take a look behind the scenes on the difficulties I had conducting that analysis. Instrumenting The Washington…