From designer to business visionary
The software design industry may be in flux, but I’m more bullish than ever on the value of design as a foundational modern business skill.
View ArticleThe legacy of InVision App
The quickest way to understand what happened to InVision is to watch the first half of Rocky III. Don’t watch the second half because that’s not what happened.
View ArticleHow I’m writing CSS in 2024
This post will be a collection of my notes and thoughts about the CSS ecosystem and the tools I’m currently using.
View ArticleSpeculative calendar events
Designing tentative calendar events to solve complex scheduling problems.
View ArticleSeeing like a designer
The real value of design doesn’t come from building better products. It comes from creating better product-building methods.
View ArticleWhat should we ship?
In October, together with Glenn, Henry, and Alasdair, we shipped a new homepage for Vercel.
View ArticleA global design system
This is a call to action to create a Global Design System that provides the world’s web designers and developers a library of common UI components.
View Article58 rules for beautiful UI design
The right UI can elevate an application from functional to unforgettable, making the difference between a user who engages once and one who returns time and again.
View ArticleTo get promoted, get better at complexity, autonomy, and throughput
Across my career, I’ve noticed that the people who get promoted usually distinguished themselves by handling 3 different kinds of challenges.
View ArticleGrids and key shapes in icon design
Exploring the importance of grids and key shapes in icon design, from how to build them step by step to how to break them in an instant.
View ArticleDesigning better target sizes
An interactive guide that is all about enhancing the target size area with CSS.
View ArticleTop front-end tools of 2023
In this roundup, you’ll find useful front-end tools that were popular last year and will help you speed up your development workflow.
View ArticleBlur radius comparison
The most common type of blur used on the web and in design tools is Gaussian blur.
View ArticleGolden rules of interface design (2013)
I have often been asked to distill the vast corpus of user interface design into a few key principles.
View ArticleAccessible notifications with ARIA Live Regions (Part 1)
We’re going to learn about ARIA live regions — the accessible notifications system that enables us to make dynamic web content more accessible to screen reader users.
View ArticleAI Vertigo: where do we go from here as designers?
Change requires time for adjustment, and we’re recognizing a particularly intense period of transition.
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