Topic: Standards

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 much focus on the former… More

Incorporating contrast checks into our process has fundamentally changed the way we approach color in our design systems. More

What Progressive Web Apps features should we expect Apple to support?… More

Apple has started development of service workers—the key technology powering Progressive Web Apps. More

Exploring shiny new solutions to a classic responsive design challenge. More

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. More

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 state of the responsive images. More

It's no secret: I love SVG. But it isn't perfect. Here are some features I hope eventually come to the standard, if not in SVG 2 then in some future successor (or even a preprocessor). More

One common argument for why organizations aren’t investing in Progressive Web Apps is that iOS doesn’t support them. Hogwash. Here’s why organizations should invest in Progressive Web Apps regardless. Source: Pixabay Progressive Web Apps still work on iOS Just… More

Is web design — or even interface design in general — a solved problem?… More