I’ve written previously about the recent merging of design and development. The timeline goes like this: 2016: AirBnb/Jon Gold’s React-Sketchapp allows you to render React Native components to a Sketch artboard. 2017: Webflow allows you to build web pages visually (with some slick CSS/JS effect functionality) and output code for…

At I/O 2018, Google unleashed a wave of new Material Design tools, components and documentation. But one thing is missing from the ecosystem: Sketch artboards with grids, columns, margins and gutters configured for each screen size. Here is the missing Sketch file, built to Google’s new MD specs 🎨🛠. Material Design is now infinitely customizable by color, size, shape and typography. Material Design Theme Editor will generate your components for you. Gallery.io will assist your Material Design handoff to your development team.

Combine create-react-app, Google-approved Material Design library rmwc, html-sketchapp and html-sketchapp-cli to render Material Design components to Sketch. In 2018, design is hurtling forward. Design and code are merging. There are two major bellwethers of this trend: AirBnb’s innovative React-sketchapp, spearheaded by Jon Gold, landed in 2017. React-sketchapp renders React components to Sketch using Sketch’s API. Ushering in a paradigm in which the design “source of truth” resides in code…

The quest to be the AR Lens To Rule Them All Augmented reality is the vital technology for overlaying dog ears and sunglasses on top of your selfies. But Google, Apple and Facebook are now locked in battle to be your future AR lens for retail stores, product reviews and branded experiences.

Forrester Research suggests that brands should “shift their billions from ad interruptions to branded relationships.” Forrester Research just released a report called “The End Of Advertising As We Know It.” …

Domino’s understands that modern brands are built with a sequence of innovative and useful customer experiences. I’d argue that Domino’s understands the future of marketing better than it understands making pizza. Modern brands are built not with ad units, but with a sequence of innovative and useful customer experiences. Here’s…

Creative technology boutique Superbright in Brooklyn, NY One of the most important reasons I co-founded Alphachannel was to shine a light on the best partners you would never find yourself. …

Reading is hard. It makes your brain hurt. And mobile text is too small to read, even with Retina Display. That’s why publishers are creating short, well-produced, daily audio news roundups.

April 12, 10:22 AM: Burger King debuted a new TV commercial in which the on-camera actor asks, “Ok Google, what is the Whopper burger?” Which triggered thousands of Google Home living room units to answer the question. April 12, 2:45 PM: Google globally disabled the voice trigger across all Google Home units. Google was not involved in the Burger King concept, and it’s safe to assume they deemed it too intrusive to allow. But in terms of PR, the BK-Google battle is probably a win for everyone. Burger King gets credit for a marketing prank, and Google gets to be the hero who stops it.