Everything you’ll need, from the web code to best practices — You probably already know Material Design — Google’s open-source design system for quickly building beautiful interfaces. But you might not know that one of Material’s most popular use cases on the web is being the “front-end of the back-end.” Oodles of Material web apps are essentially admin panels, data displays…

A design system can fail without careful forethought, diligent effort, and support — Design systems are so hot right now — and for good reason. They promote a modular approach to building a product and ensure organizational unity and stability via reusable code snippets, UI components, and utility styles. …

Communication is essential to human survival. It’s what allowed us to work together, build tribes, and survive the elements to pass on the genetic code. And now, with the growth of the web — the most accessible, widespread, and powerful communication tool we have today — our tribe has become…

Yesterday, I retweeted a post which criticized the currently fragmented state of web development. The post was pretty aggressive, but I agreed with some of its points re: over-engineering, and a fragile plugin/dependency model that only seems to be getting worse. I’m all for criticism — these are important conversations…