Hi 2012, nice to meet you. I took a small break from writing this blog at the end of last year to revise the design a bit. Now that I have a few months' worth of work experience under such an accomplished design company like Square, I wanted to go back and reapply the...
There has been an ongoing debate on whether designers—web designers, to be specific—ought to be able to code their designs. This article, for instance, re-ignites the debate. I guess the combination of designers moving onto the web en masse and that HTML + CSS has a low barrier to entry means that several designers...
Call it an experiment gone wrong, or an overzealous symphony of clashing font properties; I've had more than one person complain that this blog's text isn't that readable, and that while the styles are certainly exotic [1], they defeat the point if techni-literary euphoria comes with retinal hemorrhage. So...
I want to like CSS3 animations: they seem cleaner than relying on setTimeout() or setInterval()-based Javascript animations, generally run faster and are optimized by the browser, sometimes even hardware accelerated. If I want smooth animations in a mobile browser, CSS3 is pretty much the only way to go. But it always feels like I&...
I can't be the first person to think that web designers - often, freelancers as a group - spend more time and energy telling everybody else that that their work is important. In particular, it seems like once a week, a designer will stop and write a scathing post on how their annoying...
I realized today at work that this site's title font-face wasn't loading. Figuring a long night ahead of debugging the WebFont Loader that's trying to grab the Raleway font (it is quite elegant, the fallback "sans-serif" font decidedly less so) from Google web fonts. Five minutes and...
