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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.

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The 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.

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How 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.

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Speculative calendar events

Designing tentative calendar events to solve complex scheduling problems.

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Design system myths

How to finish an idea after blurting out “As if…”

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Seeing like a designer

The real value of design doesn’t come from building better products. It comes from creating better product-building methods.

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HTML: The bad parts

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

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What should we ship?

In October, together with Glenn, Henry, and Alasdair, we shipped a new homepage for Vercel.

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A 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.

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58 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.

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Nested dark mode via CSS proximity

How to arbitrarily nest themes to any depth.

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To 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.

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Grids 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.

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Designing better target sizes

An interactive guide that is all about enhancing the target size area with CSS.

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Top 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.

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Blur radius comparison

The most common type of blur used on the web and in design tools is Gaussian blur.

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Moodboard Creator

The AI tool to kick-off your next branding project.

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Golden rules of interface design (2013)

I have often been asked to distill the vast corpus of user interface design into a few key principles.

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Accessible 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.

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AI 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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