Building Bridges between Design and Code — Practical AdviceThe problems with design-code hand-off are still manifold. I’ve been doing this for like 20 years and the process of turning visual…Aug 1, 2020Aug 1, 2020
Published inPrototyprPut Your Design System in a Coda.io DocI’ve been a fan of user-friendly user-configurable information management web apps for a long time. I love AirTable, I loved (the now…Apr 29, 2019A response icon2Apr 29, 2019A response icon2
Published inPrototyprOrganized SCSS Folder Structures for Design SystemsI’ve worked on a few different design systems over recent years, and they all have unique properties that affect how we organized them…Apr 12, 2019Apr 12, 2019
Including Legacy jQuery Code in a Modern ES Modules CodebaseWhile creating a new design system I imported some legacy jQuery code and learned the process for creating a future-proof codebase with…Dec 17, 2018Dec 17, 2018
Published inPrototyprThe Best Software Stack for a New BusinessI find myself in the position of choosing many products for managing design and web development work in a small team.Dec 5, 2018A response icon1Dec 5, 2018A response icon1
Custom Routing in Functional Reactive TypeScriptI 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…Sep 11, 2018Sep 11, 2018
Why We Need a Systematic Approach to Designing Web App UIsDesign systems are a way of progressing, in stages, from concepts and prototypes to implementation and functionality. The modern app design…Jul 22, 2018Jul 22, 2018
Not just full-stack. Multi-stack.As a freelance designer who develops — I find myself having to cross multiple stacks and design and build products across many disciplines…May 15, 2018May 15, 2018
Tools and Software Reviews: 10 months of FreelancingLet’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…Apr 9, 2018Apr 9, 2018
Frets — An Experiment in Functional Reactive TypeScript and SAMIf you’ve been doing javascript development on the web (or applied for any developer jobs recently), you know about React, Angular and Vue…Nov 29, 2017Nov 29, 2017