#design
Your forecast is accurate and still wrong
Icons work because they’re fast. One glance, immediate meaning, no reading required. The tradeoff is that they compress complex information into a single symbol, and compression always drops something.
Why can't I read this picture book?
I’ve spent the last five years reading picture books with my kids at bedtime. Hundreds of them - and I’m still going, even as my eldest moves on to chapter...
UX in Virtual Reality
I’ve been trying to find resources on the subject of User Experience and User Interface design in Virtual Reality a lot lately, as I’m thinking about Google Cardboard, and preparing...
Launching Sketch Toolbox from inside Sketch
I’ve been making use of Sketch a lot lately. One of the coolest features of Sketch is it’s plugin support. I’m using a tool called Sketch Toolbox to manage plugins...
Creating an icon font
I’ve recently been doing a lot of working designing an icon font that works well at small sizes for my day job. Here’s an overview of the process I’m using...
Creating 'Material Design' shadows in Photoshop
On the subject of "Pixel-perfect PSD to HTML/CSS"
I read an article on the subject of implementing a PSD design of a website perfectly in HTML/CSS, and without wanting to spend my time writing a lengthy response in...
Converting SVG to PNG online and in your terminal
This post is mostly for my own benefit on the rare occasion that I have to convert SVG files to PNG. I always spend a large amount of time looking...
These tabs they are a changin'
High fidelity in low fidelity emails
Review: The Smashing Book #2
Harmless Fun
Finally working on a new design
mmmm dark