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Jun 19, 2020

Gravity 3: Colour system

Gravity 3, the latest version of buildit’s design system, has completely revamped how we apply colours when styling UI elements. Our new system makes all UI components chameleons that can automatically blend in with the colour scheme of their surroundings on a page, and it does so purely with CSS…

Colors

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Gravity 3: Colour system
Gravity 3: Colour system
Colors

12 min read


Jul 11, 2019

Learn to walk before you run

Front-end web developers have a vast, amazing and constantly changing set of tools, approaches and frameworks available to them. Many therefore feel pressured to keep up with the latest and greatest. Are we all condemned to participate in this never-ending rat race though? The world of web design and development…

Web Development

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Learn to walk before you run
Learn to walk before you run
Web Development

9 min read


Sep 1, 2018

Hardcore CSS calc( )

Sometimes things seem complex in a design but turn out to be easy to implement in code. Other times, elements of a design that appear simple at first glance turn out to be very tricky to implement. This is the story of one of the latter cases… The challenge A couple of…

CSS

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Hardcore CSS calc( )
Hardcore CSS calc( )
CSS

8 min read


Aug 13, 2018

A Tale of Two Buttons

Much ink has been spilled about different approaches to styling UI elements on web pages and apps. The prevailing wisdom is for designers and developers to approach UI design and development in a modular way. …

CSS

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A Tale of Two Buttons
A Tale of Two Buttons
CSS

11 min read


Jun 15, 2018

Introducing Buildit’s Gravity design system

To support the creation of our recently redesigned Buildit @ Wipro Digital website, we have also created a nascent design system and its name is Gravity. This is the story of how Gravity came to be and where it is headed next. The motivation Buildit has had a website and a small…

Design Systems

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Introducing Buildit's Gravity design system
Introducing Buildit's Gravity design system
Design Systems

12 min read


Apr 28, 2017

Design System Architecture (TL;DR version)

If my full-fat post about Design System Architecture is too long for your taste (Medium estimates it’s a 12 minute read), then you might prefer this summarised version… At Buildit we’ve done a fair amount of work on design systems. …

Design Systems

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Design System Architecture (TL;DR version)
Design System Architecture (TL;DR version)
Design Systems

2 min read


Apr 28, 2017

Design System Architecture (full-fat version)

This ended up being a lengthy post. If you’re in a hurry you can check out the TL;DR version to get the gist of it and come back to this one later. I recently attended WEBdeLDN’s “The Evolution of Design Systems” meet-up (great event, btw!), where I was fascinated by…

Style Guides

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Design System Architecture
Design System Architecture
Style Guides

12 min read


Apr 18, 2017

WYSIWYG Must Die

Now that my clickbaity headline got your attention, I should qualify my inflammatory statement a little: “WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) in the context of producing interactive user interfaces Must Die”. Pixel Perfect Dreams The idea that you could visually design your app or website in a tool and then…

Design

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WYSIWYG Must Die
WYSIWYG Must Die
Design

9 min read


Jan 20, 2017

Hands on with Samsung’s Gear 360

I recently got a Samsung Gear 360 on loan courtesy of The Insiders. It’s a camera that can record 360º photos (up to 30 megapixels) and 360º videos (up to 4k 30fps). When viewed via appropriate software or online services, you can interactively pan around the photos or videos in…

Virtual Reality

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Hands on with Samsung’s Gear 360
Hands on with Samsung’s Gear 360
Virtual Reality

9 min read


Jan 17, 2017

Some Principles Apart

Back in October I had the good fortune of being able to attend the excellent An Event Apart 2016 Orlando, a three day web design conference. The speakers were all well known and highly respected figures in the web design community. …

Web Development

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Some Principles Apart
Some Principles Apart
Web Development

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James Nash

James Nash

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