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 Continue reading on UX Collective »

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. Read the full story ⟶

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. Read the full story ⟶

Modern retro computer terminals

The goal for this project is to design, 3D-print and assemble the enclosures for several small desktop computers. Read the full story ⟶

Animating with Lottie

I believe animation on the web is not only fun, but engaging in such a way that it has converted site visitors into customers. Read the full story ⟶

The shorthand-longhand problem in atomic CSS

In this article I’d like to talk about the biggest caveat of Atomic CSS – precisely Atomic CSS generated by CSS-in-JS libraries. Read the full story ⟶