I’ve been a fan of user-friendly user-configurable information management web apps for a long time. I love AirTable, I loved (the now defunct) FieldBook even more. I’ve enjoyed the power of Notion.so, Quip, Slab, and Confluence as team wikis and collaborative spaces. …

I’ve worked on a few different design systems over recent years, and they all have unique properties that affect how we organized them. …

While creating a new design system I imported some legacy jQuery code and learned the process for creating a future-proof codebase with TypeScript and Rollup.js. — I build design systems for my clients. One recent project involved taking a couple static CSS and JS files and refactoring them into a flexible, well documented system composed of many individual components. Why create a design system?

I find myself in the position of choosing many products for managing web development work in a small team. The goal is to prepare this team for scaling, but I don’t want to fall into the trap of over-optimization. This team should be able to effectively balance design and development…

I needed to figure out how to build a router for a single page app. I’ve used vue-router many times and it works really well for vue projects, but for my custom framework I needed to find a more imperative and functional approach. In my framework I am avoiding all…

Design systems are a way of progressing, in stages, from concepts and prototypes to implementation and functionality. The modern app design process is one of delivering an interface in layers. I personally do most of my work on responsive web apps, so I can’t really speak to iOS or Android…

As a freelance designer who develops — I find myself having to cross multiple stacks and design and build products across many disciplines, apps, architectures and languages. So, here are some of the web app “stacks” I’ve worked in over the past 2 years. #1 The Enterprise MS SQL Server Windows ASP.Net 4x jQuery + Backbone SCSS #2 The Small Startup Team Ruby on Rails SublimeText LESS Bootstrap Sketch

Let’s look back at a few decisions that I made when I started my freelance business and how they have turned out. I offer this as a long term review of the tools I’ve chosen as well as a little bit of historical accounting for future me. Business Accounting Software: Pancake I researched a…

If you’ve been doing javascript development on the web (or applied for any developer jobs recently), you know about React, Angular and Vue. Each of these is a modern, powerful, and well-maintained framework for creating interactive and rich javascript applications on the web. They attempt to make it easy to…