• 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?

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    Extremes

    Print often encourages us to design around everyman data, while the web forces us to do the opposite.

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    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.

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    Design Differently

    MengTo’s article on how designers approach code made me wonder about how my coding affects the way I design.

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    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.

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    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.