Tagged: design

I’m a web designer-developer who has mostly designed and built marketing websites for small to medium-sized businesses. I started designing because my clients didn’t have a designer and expected me to handle everything. But I’ve always felt like an imposter. It’s not a nice feeling.

I’m really determined to change that, which is why I just bought Scott Riley’s course, Mindful Design. Piccalilli is running a Black Friday sale on all their courses, including Mindful Design, and I can wholeheartedly recommend them.

Redesigning Piccalilli: the first part of the design process

As a freelancer, I’m always eager to learn how other folks work. Piccalilli’s behind-the-scenes look at their redesign is extremely useful.

You Want border-color: transparent, Not border: none – Frontend Masters Blog

In this article, Dave Rupert explains how testing in forced colors mode improves accessibility for users and reveals design flaws, such as excessive reliance on color cues.

The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. II - Jim Nielsen’s Blog

Jim Nielsen makes the case for design engineers as professionals who do design work with code. He also emphasizes the limitations of traditional design tools, which often produce static images that don’t fully capture the dynamic nature of web interactions, and advocates for designing in the browser instead.

You need someone who can do design work with code.

That’s right: design work with code.

Pixels of an interface from a GUI tool are a static representations of a dynamic form. It’s the difference between a picture of me and the living, breathing, moving me.

Design engineers don’t just push pixels around in a GUI tool, they do it in a web browser — the medium of delivery — designing not just the visuals but the interactions that make sense for a living, breathing, moving interface.