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Tools for creating a color palette

It’s an awkward time to be publishing this article. New ways to define color, most notably OKLCH and OKLAB, are improvements over the…

Mar 22, 2023

Tools for creating a color palette

Mar 22, 2023

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Design + Sketch

Designing with JSON in Sketch

I last wrote about using data in Sketch back in 2018. Sketch 52 had just added support for populating designs with a random image selected…

Sep 16, 2021

Designing with JSON in Sketch

Sep 16, 2021

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Prototypr

Figma tips and tricks you might not know about

Tips to help you master this design tool and improve your workflow

Feb 20, 2020

An screenshot of the Figma interface showing the distance between two buttons

Feb 20, 2020

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Bits and Pieces

Use Tailwind or Roll Your Own CSS Utility Library?

I’m a big fan of what is sometimes called atomic CSS — basically using a whole bunch of utility classes. I’ve previously written about why…

Apr 15, 2019

Use Tailwind or Roll Your Own CSS Utility Library?

Apr 15, 2019

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Design + Sketch

Using the new Data feature in Sketch 52

Sketch 52 comes with the ability to instantly populate multiple shapes with images all at once. The same feature can also set the content…

Oct 2, 2018

Using the new Data feature in Sketch 52

Oct 2, 2018

Looping over a node list

Performing the same task on multiple elements must be one of the most common tasks performed with the language. You’d think there’d be a…

May 3, 2017

May 3, 2017

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CSStuff

What does css grid mean for accessibility?

Have you ever tried tabbing through a webpage? Tabbing takes a user from one focusable element (a link, button, input, etc) to the next…

Nov 29, 2016

Nov 29, 2016

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CSStuff

Can you progressively enhance a layout?

I’ve experimented a lot with grid without thinking about progressive enhancement. I was making Codepen’s for no other purpose other than…

Nov 15, 2016

Can you progressively enhance a layout?

Nov 15, 2016

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CSStuff

What’s so great about display: contents?

In October Chris Coyier wrote a CSS Tricks article entitled Will we be flattening our HTML for CSS Grids? He worried that by using grid…

Nov 15, 2016

What’s so great about display: contents?

Nov 15, 2016

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CSStuff

The one thing I hate about grid

After seeing how excited Jen Simmons and Rachel Andrew were about the CSS grid module I tried it out. Since then I’ve been obsessed with…

Oct 4, 2016

The one thing I hate about grid

Oct 4, 2016

Oliver Williams

Oliver Williams

UI designer. Previously found at Springer Nature, giffgaff, Gradle. Read my blog at https://fullystacked.net/

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