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How I made sense of the Apple Contacts mash-up
Apple Contacts is confusing, but it gets easier and even useful if you understand how it works. It’s not as hard as you think
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How to get started with motion design in 10 minutes
Interpolation is the most important concept required to learn and excel in UI motion design.
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Life with ESM
ESM, meaning ES Modules, meaning JavaScript Modules. Like, import and friends.
Browsers support it these days. There is plenty of nuance, but as long as you’ve dropped IE, the door is fairly open.
Before ESM, the situation for JavaScript projects was:
We’ve got packages we need to use from npm.We..
Netlify Edge Handlers
Netlify Edge Handlers are in Early Access (you can request it), but they are super cool and I think they are worth wrapping your brain around now. I think they change the nature of what Jamstack is and can be.
You know about CDNs. They are global. They host assets geographically close to people so ..
Poll: Should Designers Stay Out of Politics?
The Beazley Design of the Year for 2020 has just been awarded to US architecture firm Rael San Fratello & Colectivo Chopeke for their Teeter-Totter Wall project, a series of luminous pink seesaws built into the US-Mexico border wall in July 2019.
The 74 shortlisted entrants for the prize range from..
On Type Patterns and Style Guides
Over the last six years or so, I’ve been using these things I’ve been calling “type patterns” in my web design work, and they’ve worked out pretty well for me. I’ll dig into what they are and how they can make their way into CSS, and maybe the idea will click with you too and help with your day-to-d..
Blitz design — the value of intuition and speed
What l learned about designing quickly from Malcolm Gladwell and The Queen’s Gambit
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Dealing with the Isolation of Freelance Life
For over two decades, I’ve been fortunate enough to work from home. No maddening commute and all the coffee I can handle. Sounds pretty cool, right?
And, even when a global pandemic sent the world scrambling to work remotely, things stayed relatively the same here (save for my child enrolling in on..
7 visual design lessons from Dmitry Novikoff based on Big Sur Icons
My friend, Dmitry Novikoff, has helped me work on a Big Sur icon, and I was honestly surprised by the number of visual design secrets he shared.
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Kia has unveiled its new logo
The car brand revealed its new logo and brand slogan in a world-record-breaking light show in Seoul that rivalled any international New Year’s celebration.
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