Tag: Design
A stroll around Camp Washington
A super nice Saturday across town bopping about. +18 photos
Pixel Pushing, Redux
Claude Design dropped on a Friday. I played. This site redesign is the result — some time over the weekend, £23.84, and a lot of thoughts about design systems, source of truth, and whether the tension between design and engineering has really gone anywhere.
Updating Your Website For Generative Engine Optimization
Learn how to optimize your website for generative search engines like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to improve your search engine rankings.
The Past, Present, and Future of AI Workshops with @mergesort
Six months teaching people to build with AI taught me one thing: most people are just a few questions away from learning so much.
WordPress Theme updaten – Design gekauft bei Themeforest
Hier ein Blogpost zum Thema Wordpress Themes/Templates updaten die z.B. von Themeforest gekauft wurden. Es lässt sich aber auch auf andere eingekaufte oder von Seiten heruntergeladene Wordpress Themes übertragen. Es betrifft alle Themes, die nicht über das Wordpress Repository angebunden sind. Für diese "angebundene Themes" gibt es darüber Updates. Das Problem ist bei diesen selbst...
More Programming Thoughtleadership re: dependencies
I'm still thinking about this thing that everyone pretty much decided to stop thinking about in 2019.
Good system design
Very slowly getting system design through my Thick Skull and onto the surface of my Smooth Brain.
The Decline of Design
Sean Heber of Iconfactory brings the harsh realities of maintaining steady design work in the era of AI dominance. I am sorry to read about the challenges Iconfactory is facing. The first product I worked on after I got into software development used icons created by the studio. Their Twitter client, Twitterrific was what lured...
Indie App Spotlight - Plinky Feature
Plinky was featured in Indie App Spotlight Issue 20, where we discussed the app's origin story, design philosophy, technical implementation, and the journey of building a successful indie app.
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Stripe's hosted version of Poor Charlie's Almanack is a vision of what digital books could be, instead of what we got, which kind of sucks.
Battery on Arc
Arc works with my crummy old laptop now! Is that enough to make me want to switch to it fulltime?
Does web design matter
Is there any point in making websites look good, beyond their normal ease of use? And if so—who are we doing it for?
Fujichia
A website that is actually a spooky castle that you can go visit from the comfort of your very own personal sofa.
Websites are fine
The Internet is working exactly the way it's built to.
Fiat Topolino
What a fun idea from usually-not-particularly-interesting Stellantis member brand Fiat!
Search
Adding search to my website was a fun project for the weekend, and has made my own website like 40% more useful to me.
Arc browser vs. Safari
Arc browser is a thoughtfully-designed departure from traditional browsing, and I don't use it at all.
Italics in Fira
You can make italics a different font, if you feel like it.
View transitions with video
The latest iteration of the View Transitions API will actually let you transition video while it's playing.
Personal website design archetypes
Some quick thoughts on broad categories of personal website design.
Notes on "26 things"
2 things I learned from "26 Things from "101 Things I Learned in Architecture School""
Effective design
On distinguishing good design from effective design.
LiebeHeide
LiebeHeide from LiebeFonts is the one handwriting font that I can really get behind.
Blurry gradient blobs pt. 2
More blurry gradient backgrounds on the web
Converging on peak gradient
We're closing in on peak blurred gradient blob.
Fun w/ hsl pt. 2
I hinted at a fun way to use the CSS hsl() colour function in a recent post. Now you can see what I mean, in action!
Blog v4
We're on v4 of the blog now, after only like 5 years! Hopefully this one lasts longer than the others.
Microsoft Fluent Emoji
Microsoft outdid themselves with their fluent emoji, and now that they've open sourced them, they've outdid themselves again.
Play.gl
Most PWAs have a certain janky feeling to them that distinguishes them from native apps. But Play.gl, a PWA, doesn't have that jank.
Fun with hsl()
Hue, saturation, and lightness provides a fun approach to colour that allows for some neat programmatic tricks.
Almost no CSS
The web continues to require almost no style at all.
Maximum Design For Minimal Effort
A 15-minute live coding talk covering design fundamentals - color, spacing, typography, and animation - to transform basic UI into beautiful interfaces.
Tyler Angert's Stream
I like that the idea of a low-stakes blog is growing in the form of Streams, where people short-form content. Tyler Angert's created maybe the coolest implementation I've seen yet.
MDN redesign
The MDN redesign is nice but it's missing one key thing to differentiate it from all the other docs sites out there.
macOS button in Figma
We Deserve Less walks us through re-creating the default macOS buttons in Figma.
Creating Slick Color Palette APIs
Building maintainable, flexible color palette systems for iOS and macOS apps using asset catalogs, semantic naming, and SwiftUI integration.
Essential SASS Mixins
Here's some SASS Mixins I've collected over the years.
Pointy Serif Fonts
Pointy fonts with really high stroke contrast are everywhere nowadays.
Using Figma As a Primary Design Tool
Figma is the new hotness when it comes to designing, particuarly for the web, but for most anything really. It's a Javascript based web based application that essentially supplements (or replaces) a lot of vector based design tools like Sketch, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
Using and Organizing Icons with IconJar
Recently I gave IconJar a try. It's a fairly simple program for Mac that allows you to browse and preview all your icons in one place. Similar to what Font Book or Extensis Fusion is for fonts.
Untitled Game Design Manifesto, or My Brain Is The Charlie Day Conspiracy Meme
Things are bad.
Handle
For our first assignment with the wood lathe, I made a handle. We were given a template, but I opted to go freestyle instead and follow…