Web Design
- Twas the Night Before…Flat Design
- Learn More About Color By Working In Grayscale
- Thoughts About HTML5 Structural Elements
- The Effect Of Luminance and Contrast Ratio On Accessibility
- Your Design Skills Could Lift Humanity To New Heights
- Why Luminance Is The Key Component Of Color
- Thoughts About Responsive Navigation On Mobile Devices
- Responsive Images Demo—Srcset, Picture, and Image-Set
- Responsive Images Revisited—High Resolution Images
- Personal Taste And Why Appreciating Different Perspectives Is Important
- Responsive Images Revisited—The Picture Element
- Responsive Images Revisited—The Srcset Attribute
- Why Can’t The Boring Designer Have Style?
- “Type on Screen” Review
- Is Everyone A Designer?
- Passion For Design Will Improve Your Skills And Make Your Work More Enjoyable
- What Chess Can Teach You About Making Decisions
- Mea Culpa — How A Lapse In Focus Helped Me Write A Book
- Subjective And Objective Design Choices
- Why Understanding Design History Will Make You A Better Designer Today
- What I’d Tell My Younger Self To Offer Context For Learning Web Design And Development
- What I’d Tell My Younger Self About Learning Development As A Web Designer
- Why People Love And Hate Responsive Design
- What I’d Tell My Younger Self About Learning HTML/CSS
- What I’d Tell My Younger Self About Learning Web Design
- Does Your Age Determine How Well You Can Design And Develop Websites?
- Opinionated Design — Make More Decisions And Leave Fewer Options
- You Don’t Need To Learn Each And Every New Thing
- The Perception That Design Is How Something Looks
- Write, Code, Design, Every Day
- The Art To Becoming A Better Designer — Learning To Trust Your Judgement
- Why Do So Many Responsive Sites Look The Same?
- Why Developers Should Learn More About Design
- Iterate Your Current Design Process To Find A Better One
- Pull Up To The Next Window For Your Website
- The Importance Of Context
- Style and Substance
- Make Me Think, Or Else
- Can Your Design Process Handle The Uniqueness Of Each Project And Client?
- Responsive Design Signals A Much Larger Change
- The Golden Section Revisited — Magic Or Myth?
- Underlined Links — When Is It Ok To Break From Convention?
- Visual Perception — Series Wrap Up And Key Ideas
- Why It’s Still Important To Design “Above The Fold”
- Use The Efficient Power Of Emotional Design To Connect With Your Audience
- How To Make Visually Complex Information Easy To Understand
- Using Graphics to Make Abstract Concepts Concrete
- When Is A Design Finished?
- Communicate Efficiently By Reducing Realism
- The Web Is A Rectangle
- How To Direct A Viewer’s Eye Through Your Design
- Why I Design
- How To Organize Information for Early Visual Perception
- Top-Down Visual Perception: How You Can Tap Memory To Direct Eye Movement
- Thoughts About Design And Art
- Bottom-Up Visual Perception: What Saccadic Eye Movements Suggest For Designers
- Color Systems — Part 2
- Color Systems — Part 1
- Design is Decision-Making
- How I Start A Design Project — Problem Definition
- Simplicity — A Thoughtful Approach To Better Design
- What Role Do Aesthetics Play In The Design Of A Website?
- What Does It Mean To Design Websites Responsively?
- How To Be More Confident In Your Design Decisions
- Good Design Is Subjective
- The Connection Between Aesthetics And Usability
- Keeping Up With Technology And Learning New Subjects
- Designing Unknown Content In 2 Dimensions
- Design Fundamentals: Download Your Free Sample From The Book
- How Design Patterns And Component Libraries Create Unity And Context
- Components, Design Patterns, and Creative Solutions To Custom Problems
- Thoughts For The Future Of Responsive Images
CSS
Freelance
- My 2014 Goals—Always Keep Your Hands Busy
- How To Fit Creative Work Into A Productivity System Like Getting Things Done (GTD)
- How I Use Things To Set Up A GTD Workflow
- The Difficulty Including Creative Work in Productivity Systems Like Getting Things Done (GTD)
- Getting Things Done (GTD)—An Overview Of The System
- The Importance Of Focus And The Difficulty Achieving It
- The Good And Bad Of Minimum Viable Products
- Which Revenue Model Should You Use For Your Business?
- Do Your Products And Services Help To Sell Themselves
- How To Make Your Client’s Budget Work For You
- Why Freelance Web Designers Need To Adjust To A Changing Market For Their Services
- Working From Home
- Is Your Best Work For Yourself Or For Your Clients?
- Increase Your Productivity With A Weekly Review
- Choosing Context — Knowing Which Advice To Apply
- My Design Process — Communicating And Collaborating With Clients
- How Do You Define Success?
- Design as Commodity — Sometimes Good Enough Is Good Enough
- My 2014 Goals — A Continuation Of Journey Started In 2013
Blogging
Whatever
- Happy Thanksgiving—Don’t Take Things For Granted
- It’s Not My Fault—Taking Responsibility For Yourself
- Make Mistakes—The Importance Of Failure
- If You Think You Can…
- How Good Habits Become Craft And How You Can Use Them To Create A Better You
- Creativity Is In The Journey
- One Thing You Should Do To Improve Your Confidence