PinnedSome initial notes on Adobe acquisition of FigmaSome initial scribbles on the Adobe acquisition of Figma. I don’t really share these often, but I think this is a good learning oppurtunity for the community at large, and also a space to make sense of my own thoughts. There is some possible optimism For-profit companies are gonna for-profit …6 min read6 min read
Published inWe’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news·Feb 17, 2019A guide to GraphQL for front-end developers10 months ago, Artsy Engineering Lead, Alan Johnson proclaimed that ‘I have seen the future, and it looks a lot like GraphQL’. Fast-forward to exactly 13 days before I started this article, and Wired Magazine publishes a story title How Facebook has changed computing, highlighting GraphQL as one of the…Tech17 min readTech17 min read
Jul 22, 2018Cross-browser CSS with feature detectionHow to use feature detection to ensure that styling from the frontiers of front-end development do not break older browsers. In early 2017, I presented a couple of workshops on the topic of CSS feature detection, titled CSS Feature Detection in 2017. A friend of mine, Justin Slack from New…CSS18 min readCSS18 min read
Published inPrototypr·Jun 22, 2018Setting yourself up for failureScary, crazy, upside-down truths for the insecure and perfectionistic, found in the practice of Lean UX. I’ve recently borrowed The Lean Startup (2011) from a colleague. It rattled some rusty cogs (long overdue for some Q20 introspection!) in my daily workflow as an interface designer. I thought it might be…Lean Startup11 min readLean Startup11 min read
