Cathy_Dutton

This is my now page, inspired by Derek Sivers.

Currently working on

A simple component library
Experimenting with CSS grid and subgrid
Removing Sass legacy code from my websites

Currently reading

Digital Transformation at Scale: Why the Strategy Is Delivery: Why the Strategy by Andrew Greenway and Ben Terrett
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Stephen J. Dubner, Steven Levitt
No Nonsense: The Autobiography by Joey Barton

Currently using

Tools aren’t everything but right now I'm using:

Latest posts

Article title Designing digital forms

Published on September 5th 2018

Digital transformation provides organisations with the perfect opportunity to redesign legacy paper forms making it quicker and simpler for users to achieve their goal. However, as well as opportunity, creating a digital experience can also introduce new problems, after all paper forms do have some advantages over their digital replacements.

Tagged in: Design

Article title The problem with patterns

Published on August 14th 2018

This post discusses potential issues introduced by the use of design patterns from small interaction design patterns, to larger full service patterns.

Tagged in: Design

Article title CSS custom properties and accessibility

Published on April 2nd 2018

A look at CSS custom properties and how they can be utilised to build accessible websites and apps.

Tagged in: CSS, Accessibility