Article title Stepping away from Sass
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My latest site redesign and why I left out Sass and media queries in favour of native CSS grid, calc, viewport units and custom properties.
Tagged in: Front end development, CSS
Now things I'm doing right now
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
- The design of everyday things, a revised and expanded edition by Donald A Norman
- Form Design Patterns by Adam Silver
- 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:
- Visit the CSS website.
- Visit the PostCSS website.
- Visit the ITCSS website.
- Visit the HTML5 website.
- Visit the JavaScript website.
- Visit the Node website.
- Visit the Express website.
- Visit the Gulp website.
- Visit the Git website.
- Visit the NPM website.
- Visit the Sketch website.
- Visit the Nunjucks website.
- Visit the Slack website.
- Visit the Eleventy website.
- Visit the Netlify website.
- Visit the Github website.
Latest posts
Article title Designing digital forms
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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
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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