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Desktop-down design is so painfully dated and damaging to user experience

There’s of course, some cases where design for desktop-first is essential, but friends, when you’re designing a responsive website, you have to give mobile so much more attention. Check out this chart from StatCounter: Now imagine starting with desktop, or worse, not even considering mobile. I hate saying “mobile” too, because a small screen does […]

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The tech tool carousel

I recently described what I call “the carousel” to some fellow nerds so I thought I’d write about it. I’m a lot of years into this web thing and I’ve seen a lot of “game changers” come and go. It’s all very cyclical and predictable. I also have unbearably high standards for the work I […]

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He’ll get away with it

Our system is built so people like Boris Johnson get away with it. The only way to remove him is via his Conservative party. The same conservative party responsible for the hostile environment and austerity. These people are scum. They’ll probably still get votes though and they’ll still win elections because they have the support […]

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Give me a design tool that supports responsive design

Tools like Figma are coming on leaps and bounds, but we’re still producing pictures of designs in them. I’ve been playing with Webflow a bit recently, but there’s seemingly not a simple way to use clamp() for sizing type and space—not to mention Every Layout layouts. HTML and CSS are my preferred design tool—in fact, […]

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