Design Systems Typography in Design Systems (rebound) About a week ago, I read Dan Mall's article, Typography in Design Systems, and I've been meaning to write a quick rebound post to expand on the section about the system in code with something I've been doing in my own work. In the
Web Development SVG, Sketch and inset shadows When it comes to SVG, I'm a novice. It's one of those aspects of web development I've had on my list to catch up on and have only just got around to it. Better late than never I suppose. My primary graphics editor has
Web Development Sod it, time for a change Last week at HuddsDigitals, we saw Seb Lee-Delisle talk about his PixelPyros project which was showing at this weekend's Festival of Light. A few days later, I read Ashley Baxter's article on 24Ways which talked about the process of creating your own app from
Web Design Structure To my disappointment, I was unable to attend New Adventures conference this year so while my Twitter stream was filled with people saying how buzzed and inspired they were, I was left wondering whether I could somehow conjure up some of that excitement for
Web Development Size matters? Earlier today Luke Wroblewski published an interesting article listing the number of new devices announced since the beginning of September. It brought back a thought I tweeted last week regarding device sizes and designing for the web. It's not a new thought, lots of
Web Development Curious code I've been live with this site design for a few weeks now and you may be please to hear I've no plans to redesign any time soon! I am, however, making small changes here and there which I hope will improve the site and
Web Development Giving ExpressionEngine love once again Some time ago I announced I was moving away from ExpressionEngine in favour of using a Tumblr blog. I chose to go down that route because I gave the site a design overhaul and decided I didn't need a full system to run it.
Web Development IE6, sorry it's just not working out With IE8 on the verge of release in the next month or two, I'm probably not the only developer in the world who can't help but think this may actually be the beginning of something good. There'll (hopefully) be a lot less headaches and
CSS Is CSS3 ready to rock? A great video by Andy Clarke on CSS3 RGBa, be sure to check out the original blog post for transcript and code examples.