If you know me, you know I’m a fan of the smoked meats. Living in Austin, Texas, it’s kind of a requirement. Aside from eating a (frankly) absurd amount of the stuff, I’ve been cooking it myself for the better part of a decade now. …

Lemme set the stage: you’ve got an app designed in Sketch. Dozens of pages, even more artboards. Launch is approaching. During an all-hands meeting, the boss decides he wants the blue (used on every single screen) to “pop more.” At least he didn’t ask to make the logo bigger. Sketch…

A while back, a buddy released a new album. While the music is great, the nerd in me equally enjoyed the website. It’s filled with amazing art and type design, including this header/logo/treatment thing you see below: I wrote an article the other day about seamless patterns in Sketch. A…

Recently while using Craft I discovered a secret feature. Actually, before we get to that, let me talk a bit about how Craft works. Craft is a Sketch plugin that makes working with real data a breeze. …

A new version of Sketch Beta dropped yesterday and brought with it a treasure trove of goodies. We ran through the changelog and found our favorites and then captured them in glorious GIF format. Enjoy! Percentage widths

Sometimes while working a client build, you’ll come across a weird request or three. Even more often, because this is WordPress, there are dozens of ways to accomplish said weird task. Recently someone asked me to allow custom line breaks inside a WordPress post title (which, if you’re keeping score…

When you’re working with SASS (or Compass, or Bourbon, etc), and you want a simple way to compile your code, you might try a solution like CodeKit or Hammer. If you don’t mind a bit of command line, you know that you can do a lot of the same thing…