Tagged - design
TIL: Typography sizing for a blog
Fixing horizontal scroll, refactoring my typography sizing.
Reading list #3
Sharpening your design chops I read these books as a freshman frontender, and I think they laid a solid foundation. I still cite lessons from them. Would recommend🫡
Book: Don’t make me think
Book: The design of everyday things
Book: Refactoring UI - I would say this one is the best place to start
Complementary videos from Steve Schoger How To Not Suck At Design For Developers Youtube channel: Juxtaposed…
Code should communicate intent
It's one thing to write code that does the thing. It's another to write code that tells the reader what it's doing
Book Notes: Tidy First?
highlights, quotes, & other interesting bits from Tidy First
TIL: Cognitive Complexity
Refactor this function to reduce its Cognitive Complexity
Handling Network Failure on your Frontends
Network failures are an inevitability in distributed computing. Your frontend has to be built with that in mind
Cohesion & Complexity
WIP - publishing for early feedback😛
TIL some Node
Async event loop vs concurrency (threading)
Javascript Proxy 101
Someone gave me 5 minutes to do a sales pitch on the subject
Domain Driven Design and naming
Musings on what Domain Driven Design taught me about naming variables, methods etc in my code.
Podcast: Software Design with John Ousterhout
From the Legacy Code Rocks podcast
Blogroll
Ongoing sources of inspiration, some blogs I like, etc
UX Crit
A way to train your design eye
Tidal UX Wishlist
I'm trying to use tidal more and more. Here are some UX pain points I've been feeling.
Cognitive Load Theory
How can this theory can be a helpful heuristic for effective team design
Spotify UX Wishlist
I am somewhat of a spotify power user. Here is some commentary on the User Experience
Ideal collaboration UX for music apps
A friend asked me a thought provoking question a few weeks ago
UX Case Study: Sharing music from streaming platform to Instagram Stories
Looking at how software interacts with the world around it
Predatory/Hostile UX
A little story about how iOS handled the placing of icons after I installed Apple music
Autoplay Opinion
I switch off autoplay on all my streaming services. Youtube, Spotify, Netflix etc
Trellis Design
Something I learnt today. Maybe more than one thing👾
A quick lesson in design - Dark Patterns
A mini rant & quick lesson in design
Figma
Figma related links
Design
I always 'misplace' design resources
I'm Fascinated by Design
Good design is a fundamental layer of multiple disciplines, because of this, I think it's important to make time to understand the principles of good design
Book Notes: Refactoring UI
highlights, quotes, & other interesting bits from Refactoring UI