Illustration by Dougal MacPherson
Priority Guides: A Content-First Alternative to Wireframes
Illustration by Dougal MacPherson
Coding with Clarity
Working code isn’t necessarily good code. Your code also needs to be easy to read, understand, and modify. It needs clarity, and to achieve that, it has to be organized well, with careful planning and proper separation of ideas taking place before you even open your code editor. Coding for clarity is something that separates the great developers from the merely good, and there are a few basic prin
From Pages to Patterns: An Exercise for Everyone
Illustration by Elliot Stokes
Object-Oriented UX
In June 2012, while working at CNN.com, I was tasked with designing the user experience of election night. The next five months of my life would be dedicated to that single night—but success to me had nothing to do with who won. I was concerned with findability, data visualization, a shape-shifting canvas, and how the hell mouse-over flyouts were going to work on an iPhone. For the first time in h
Managing Your Content Management System
The first rule of content management systems is that you’re using the wrong one. Using WordPress? You’re a fifth-grader running a coloring-contest blog. Drupal? You should be using WordPress. An enterprise solution? You’re an open-source Judas. This is how it often feels, at least, if you hang around the rough parts of web-dev Twitter or loiter in blog comments. But the real first rule of content
Designing Safer Web Animation For Motion Sensitivity
It’s no secret that a lot of people consider scrolljacking and parallax effects annoying and overused. But what if motion does more than just annoy you? What if it also makes you ill? That’s a reality that people with visually-triggered vestibular disorders have to deal with. As animated interfaces increasingly become the norm, more people have begun to notice that large-scale motion on screen can
A Dao of Web Design
What Zen was to the 70’s (most famously with motorcycle maintenance), the Tao Te Ching was to the 90’s. From Piglet and Pooh to Physics and back, many have sought sense in applying the Tao Te Ching to something (the Tao of Physics), or something to the Tao Te Ching (the Tao of Pooh). It can be a cheap trick, but lately it has struck me that there is more than a little to be understood about web de
The Specialist-Generalist Balance
A couple of years ago I hit a crisis point. There was a distinct divide between disciplines at my company; I had been labeled a “backend developer,” and it was starting to feel restrictive. The label wasn’t wrong: I spent most of my working hours writing server-side code. I enjoyed it, and I was good at it—but it wasn’t all that I could do. I’ve always considered myself to have a fairly generalist
Building Books with CSS3
You can style each of these page areas individually, if for example you want to add navigation tabs or running headers or footers (see below for more on those). The Paged Media Editor’s Draft has a great description of sizing and positioning of margin boxes. All but the corner margin boxes have variable widths (for boxes on the horizontal edges) or heights (for boxes along the vertical edges), and
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