We recently completed a site for a client with content in several languages. I’m no stranger to internationalization, but the majority of multilingual sites I’ve worked on used a default language and then included content in only one or two more languages. This...
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White Space and the Fallacy of ‘Above the Fold’
The amount of information available on our screens is overwhelming. I say “screens” because we interact with so many throughout the day: smartphones, laptops, desktops, watches, televisions. Even my dentist’s office has a screen in each room that usually plays a screensaver, but is...
Read More White Space and the Fallacy of ‘Above the Fold’The Death of Design is Highly Exaggerated
I am a humble designer. I am part of a wonderful craft that is often times misunderstood or oversimplified. I want to take the time from a designer’s perspective to illustrate why design will never die, but rather just be what it...
Read More The Death of Design is Highly ExaggeratedCSS Specificity: What You May Not Have Known
Most front-end developers glaze over at the mention of the word. However, having a strong grasp of how CSS Specificity works is key to minimizing tedious debugging. Specificity tells the browser what rules to apply to an element, and if there is a...
Read More CSS Specificity: What You May Not Have KnownCreate Simple Inline Media Queries with include-media
Lately, I’ve been thinking that our current method of using inline media queries throughout our Sass partials has not been flexible enough for the projects we’ve been building. While it was simple and allowed for easy implementation, I think it is time...
Read More Create Simple Inline Media Queries with include-mediaA Brief Look at Lean UX Design
What is Lean UX? Lean UX was born out of the Lean startup movement. The concept of ‘being lean’ is derived from Lean manufacturing principles, which essentially postulates [1]: “making obvious what adds value by reducing everything else.”
Read More A Brief Look at Lean UX DesignBrackets.io, How I Love Thee
Let me count the ways… I have been having a great time testing Brackets.io, the open source text editor by Adobe. Ever since switching from Espresso to Sublime Text, I have missed many of the preview features in Espresso…and then along comes Brackets.
Read More Brackets.io, How I Love TheeGetting Small with Modular Design as QA
I’ve written about the QA process ’round these parts before, sure. A while back I penned a piece on how to streamline and focus your QA process to ensure that you didn’t miss any of those finer details which can sometimes fall...
Read More Getting Small with Modular Design as QAWhy Grids Matter: A Review From Chaos to Order
For ages, grids have hung prose on pages to the benefit of humanity and to its curse at times. The topic of grids is lost to some, especially in a world that moves so fast. Designers have to, at times, initiate the...
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