Posts tagged #design
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- The infinite coast of problem solvingI'm currently designing and building the lexicon, ambitiously explained as "the most useful language learning resources in the world". The problem is that there's a lot involved in that, you know? There's theoretical questions like "what does most useful mean?" and "how do humans learn languages"? Then there's small problems...2021-06-13
- The Frustrating Mismatch of Design by User Journey but Build with ComponentsHow do you design a good app? It's a charmingly amateurish question, but I've spent the past five years primarily trying to design and build web apps and I don't know the answer. I regularly get sick of looking at my current and old designs and ask "why don't these...2021-03-06
- Design Resource: Free Fonts from Awwwards (2021)Awwwards have put out a collection of free (or free-adjacent) fonts. You can find them here....2021-01-15
- Tiny thought: On the separation of design and engineeringTiny Thoughts are little (500 word) essays. They're concise. I make user interfaces, and I often participate in, or lead, the process of designing these interfaces. For a while I thought I wanted to transition fully into a design role. Ultimately I am drawn to the certainty and craft of...2020-11-23
- Introducing Figma Variants with 5 Components that aren't ButtonsFigma recently introduced Variants - a way of extending and varying your components. Components in Figma, and in modern web development, are reusable and encapsulated elements of a design - with the classic examples of a Button or a Card. Variants add new flexibility, and utility, to components in Figma...2020-11-19
- Think in Frameworks, build with Libraries - Thinking about CSS in Web DevelopmentI'm a few weeks into starting a new job as a frontend software engineer, and I've been moving around our (Angular) codebases to make a few smaller changes, and bump a number of our core dependencies through a couple of major (e.g. 1.0.0 -> 2.0.0) versions. This caused a few...2020-10-21
- Where I go for UI inspirationLike anybody who makes interfaces for apps/websites, I spent a lot of time looking at Design Inspiration (read: UIs, real or imaginary, made by other people). This is a really good way to look at visual conventions that other people made, and have used in their UIs and UX. If...2020-08-07
- Kickstarting UX Design with ugly working documents: Screens, Components, Actions, and State.UX design resists standardisation or templates. It can't be a one-size-fits-all approach, and the nature of the product, audience, and production team all mean that something different is needed each time. Whenever I get past the early stages of UX design (like understanding what a product does, and who it...2020-03-15