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#design
9 posts
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Building Label Lens: Making dietary information accessible
How do you help someone understand the hidden complexity inside a food label? The interface has to earn trust before it asks for vulnerability.
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Protein Explainer: Making complexity visible
How do you help someone understand a 3D protein structure? Start by showing them what they're looking at, not just what it's called.
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On building personal sites
Why I keep rebuilding my personal site, and what I've learned from it.
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Color and control
Why I sample album art for ambient color and what I learned about CSS transitions.
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Nearly thirty years
What close to three decades of building for the web has taught me, and what I still don't know.
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Design is not decoration
What three years of working with designers taught me about what design actually is.
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The year responsive design changed everything
Ethan Marcotte's 2010 article gave a name to something I'd been trying to do badly for years.
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When Flash was the future
For a few years in the mid-2000s, the most interesting things on the web were made in a tool that no longer exists.
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The CSS zen garden moment
In 2003, someone made the same HTML look like fifty different websites. It changed how I thought about the web.