Design & Interactive Experiences

Welcome to the DPLA API Codex! This is where you can find authoritative documentation for the DPLA API and resources you can use to make the most of it. We’re happy to have you. (Wondering why we built an API in the first place? Check out our philosophy.) What now? If you’ve never played (or …

An experimental project is taking the world of 2D graphic design into a previously unexplored universe – 3D virtual reality.

Here’s a fun fact: Over the last 10 years, our attention spans have decreased from 12 minutes to 5 minutes. Our ability (and our desire) to read lots of content is clearly impacted. So how do we rock some long form content and make it successful?

On TV dramas like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, the tiniest shreds of DNA are like magic keys, unlocking the identities of criminals with the speed of a supercomputer and the authority of science. In reality, DNA forensics isn’t nearly so exact, especially when the genetic material at a crime scene comes from more than one […]

Gerry McGovern asked if I had any insight into energy consumption and websites. He has a book, after all, about the digital costs on the planet. He was

Round, flat, designer-friendly pseudo-3D engine for canvas and SVG

Every Noise at Once is an explorable, listenable acoustic map of the 1300+ genres of the world of music.

In this guide, we outline all the ways you can use XD to communicate ideas, get feedback, and work with developers to turn your designs into real products.

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Raw HTML + CSS snippets of common UI components.

Learn how to create useful UI components with step-by-step guides, ready-to-use code snippets and Figma files. Code you can just copy & paste in your frontend projects.

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Adds cost indicator to css properties in the form of inline decorations

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Helps you identify reoccurring CSS class name combinations in your markup.

Extension for Visual Studio Code - CSS class name completion for the HTML class attribute based on the definitions found in your workspace.

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Generate CSS classes from HTML structure

CSS is what gives every website its design. Websites sure aren’t very fun and friendly without it! I’ve read about somebody going a week without

And they have more in-game events planned for this fall

The A11Y Project is a community-driven effort to make digital accessibility easier.

Presentation I gave in Sydney, Australia at Web Directions 2016. I summarize the key points in my book "Tragic Design" by O'Reilly media (co-authored with Cynt…

Get random, accessible color combinations

JavaScript Summary (http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1006192/JavaScript-Summary) A short summary of JavaScript’s main features, including a discussion of the different kinds of JS objects, basic data structures, functions as first class citizens, and code patterns for implementing classes. JavaScript was developed in 10 days in May 1995 by Brendan Eich, then working at Netscape, as the HTML scripting language... Read more: JavaScript References

Listen to how the MBTA explored improvements to the user experience of visually impaired riders and reacted to feedback in order to create the system we have today.

2017 A living document of my code growing pains. Mama I made it!

Full-Stack Developer at Wieden+Kennedy

Patrick David. Italian Front-End, designer. Website, UI/UX, WordPress Dev. Developer based in Belluno.

Co-host of our podcast Techish Abadesi Osunsade discusses the next chapter of her career, after having been let go from her previous position during the midst of the pandemic [a process she was extremely transparent about here]. 2020 — what a year! I’m extremely grateful to have good news to share in a year that’s […]

I never grew up ‘technical’. I remember an exasperated friend having to explain the concept of MSN instant messenger [I feel old] to me around the mid-00s. Long story short, I didn’t have a clue. Computers were something I used like everyone but barely understood. I just wasn’t that ‘computer guy’ growing up. So how […]