14 Posts in “Web Development”
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UX Is Dead, Long Live UX
A clickbait title. Sigh. Another screed claiming that such and such is dead but actually, no, its not, its very much alive for this and this reason. The shift in mindset, from UX as a deliverable and business bottom line,...
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Who is the internet for?
I’ve been thinking along these same lines recently. Chris Butler put it well in a recent article: People lived [in the internet] once, then AI moved in. But we’re still building a house for people. I think we might be...
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The sad state of Website Accessibility, Lawyers, Litigation, and the lack of Legislation
I write more about web accessibility over at Oomph, Inc’s blog. This was an early draft of something that I cleaned up later and added more context to. I also toned down the political undertones. I wanted to publish this...
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SASS Color Loops are Awesome
Managing Color Themes with SASS Maps SASS maps are great for storing information, but their real power comes out when you create a mixin or loop that traverses the map. We had a recent project where we had a number...
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CSS Variables are Awesome
What SASS Variables can do vs. What CSS native Variables can do SASS variables give us a lot of flexibility and repeatability and were the first on the scene to begin to give front-end developers a modern syntax for keeping...
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The Internet is experiencing its awkward teen years
If the development of the internet was akin to the personal development of a child, we might be in the awkward teenage years right now. The 90s and early 00s were very toddler-like in ways, with new toys introduced and...
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More Ammunition for My Manifesto
There must be something in the air. My Manifesto was a revelation for me — it gave me very good reason to launch a personal website that most designers would call unfinished, or at least unfinished-looking. Now Mat Marquis has...
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Ammunition for My Manifesto
My Manifesto was a call-to-action to remove complexity and get back down to the basics. In some ways, it is the art of defining what something is by removing what it is not. In the case of a website, what...
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How do you solve a problem like Blockquote?
I am obsessed with semantic markup and object-oriented CSS. We don’t always follow those guidelines to a T, but our team always tries to get close. The perfect set of markup and CSS — and therefore the perfect project —...
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Stop using the term “Mobile”
I wrote this in 2013, and am keeping it published it because I find it interesting as a historical artifact — this is what we were concerned about 4 years after the iPhone made web design a lot more complicated. ‘Mobile’...
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The Web is Responsive by Default
If you think about it, responsive layout is not a new thing. Open a simple HTML file in a web browser, and the content automatically adapts to fit the width of that browser. The web is responsive on its own...
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Mobile Means more than Smartphones
Mobile is not really a thing. As much as we talk about it, what we are really discussing is the way in which users of websites are freer than ever to use a wide array of devices to connect to...
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Do I Need a Native App?
I wrote this in 2012, and am republishing it because I find it interesting as a historical artifact — this is what we were concerned about 4 years after the iPhone made web design a lot more complicated. Most of the...