Color theory isn’t quite as simple as the wheel of seven colors we’re taught in school. Color is steeped in nature, and the rules and theories applied to it are a completely fluid human invention.
Web Standards, and the documentation to support them, provide huge insight into ‘the why’ and ‘the what’ of the world wide web. In this article, we take a look at the history of Web Standards, how to use them in your work and ways you can get involved in making them.
Web designers have typically always been big-picture people, in that they like having really big screens in front of them. It's convenient, and it makes you feel very professional. At this point in my life, I don't think I could go back to having just one monitor, either. And yet, I find that many websites don't live up to the potential promised by big darned screens, or even that presented by phones with HD resolutions. This is because we live in a mobile-first world, with mobile-first people. They go to far off and exotic places like "outside", so they have to carry their screens around w...
From design systems to DesignOps, we're seeing some dramatic shifts toward more intentional systems and processes. Will 2019 be the year of open design?
Front-end development is not a problem to be solved
HTML and CSS are often seen as a burden. This is a feeling I’ve noticed from engineers and designers I’ve worked with in the past, and it’s a sentiment
Figma Partners with WordPress to Improve Design Collaboration
Figma, an online collaborative interface design tool, has donated an organizational membership to the WordPress project. The browser-based application helps designers and developers collaborate mor…