Some Recent Videos About Websites That Are Pretty Good

Here’s a little hodgepodge of videos I’ve recently bookmarked (and watched). I couldn’t decide if each one of them should be a separate blog post or if I should do this combined list post thing. If I had a lot more to say about each video I would have split them off, but I went with the combined pos..

Measuring design quality with heuristics

How do we measure design quality? This question has been asked at every company where I’ve led design, and it comes not only from designers, but from stakeholders and executives as well. Read the full story ⟶

How to write digital products with personality

The right words will shape the entire experience. Read the full story ⟶

Plotting the year with a bullet journal

For those new to bullet journaling, it’s a method of personal organization that includes schedules, reminders, to-dos, and brainstorming. Read the full story ⟶

Is progressive enhancement dead yet?

Progressive enhancement is Scary Mary™ to some but there is no need to cry or pass out. Read the full story ⟶

The art of building real-life components

It’s fairly possible to judge a component and say that it’s easy to implement it in HTML&CSS. I agree, Read the full story ⟶

Custom Properties as State

Here’s a fun idea from James Stanley: a CSS file (that presumably updates daily) containing CSS custom properties for “seasonal” colors (e.g. spring is greens, fall is oranges). You’d then use the values to theme your site, knowing that those colors change slightly from day to day. This is what I ..

The Challenge of Switching from a Page Builder to the WordPress Gutenberg Block Editor

The time has come. The WordPress Gutenberg block editor has become reliable enough to power your existing website. You can now eschew that aged page builder plugin in favor of a native content editor. That’s the situation I’ve found myself in. A client that has, for years, utilized a bundled, out-o..

Tips on designing for mobile, written by a smartphone

Hi, yes you read that title right. I am a smartphone with a mind of my own, writing an article for Medium. I mean, I have to occupy my… Continue reading on UX Collective »

Why you should treat your roadmap process as a product itself

Applying the successful ingredients of product development to roadmapping Continue reading on UX Collective »