Writing• ES6 Proxies
I recently discovered ES6 proxies, essentially a means to intercept properties accessors and methods and either override or extend them.
Writing• Entanglement
Starting the design process nowadays is overwhelming. There are dozens of methodologies and hundreds of ‘best-practices’.
Writing• Perils of Atomic Design
Modular design methodologies, such as Brad Frost’s Atomic Design, offer consistency and maintainability. But do they also foster fragmentation?
Writing• Extremes
Print often encourages us to design around everyman data, while the web forces us to do the opposite.
Writing• Masking Bitmaps with SVG
Peter’s trick involves leveraging SVG’s support for masking to provide JPEGs with a means to transparency, and therefore the best of both worlds.
Writing• Design Differently
MengTo’s article on how designers approach code made me wonder about how my coding affects the way I design.
Writing• Tree Felling
At Responsive Day Out Oliver Reichenstein introduced the Container Model, a new means of information architecture that recalls the origins of the web.
Writing• Access
Good design, UX and otherwise, has always been about improving the content’s accessibility. The difference is that in designing a box to fit any object we have failed to design anything at all.