Luxury User Interfaces
Third-party native software is hard. They tend to offer better UI/UX than web apps and pseudo-web apps living inside of WebViews, and well-designed software tends to require additional work for interface polish. On top...
Front-End
Types Rule Everything Around Me
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography. This was written in 2006, likely exaggerating for the effect of good types, well before the advent of Web...
CSS All the Things
There's no shortage of minimalist text editors and writing utilities on the Mac. For whatever reason, the exact interface to inputting text in a window can be done a hundred different ways, and...
Trying out the Opera Neon
Remember when having multiple browsers was a requirement for desktop computing? Most users should be past that point. The default browsers for each operating system — Safari on macOS, Microsoft Edge/Internet Explorer 10/11 for...
Learning Front-end Development, One Step at a Time
I reacted viscerally to seeing this handbook the other day: Front-end Handbook In which I commented via Twitter: http://twitter.com/allenmhc/status/658745015435300864 First off, I was reacting probably more harshly than I should...
User Interfaces by Programmers, v2.0
We programmers love our settings. The old stereotype of control- and toggle- filled settings screens, each neatly corresponding to a variable in the application, has an uncomfortable if dated truth. We love having precise control...