Spooky Dark UX Patterns
Since Halloween is coming up, I thought I’d go through some things I’ve seen implemented on sites that sent a chill down my spine. Dark UX Patterns are things built for the web that are really bad for the user, …
On Style Maintenance
I was talking to a brilliant engineer friend the other day who mentioned they never get to build anything from the ground up. Their entire career has consisted of maintaining other people’s (often quite poor) code.
In a perfect world, …
Web Animation Workshops
I’m thrilled to announce a brand new workshop series I’m starting with Val Head about web animation! We’ll be taking two-day workshop around to different cities starting this November, starting with Austin and New York. Whether you’re a beginner or …
A Nerd’s Guide to Color on the Web
There are a lot of ways to work with color on the web. I think it’s helpful to understand the mechanics behind what you’re using, and color is no exception. Let’s delve into some of the technical details of color …
My New Favorite ES6 Toy: Destructured Objects as Parameters
Like a lot of other developers, I’m working through my continued education learning what I can about ES6. One of the ways I’m doing this is to attend workshops by smart people. I went to Kyle Simpson’s ES6: The Good …
Babel Plugin to Add Function Names
Have you ever been working with those sweet new ES6 arrow functions, run into a problem, and noticed that now your stack trace is all anonymous functions? Yeah, that’s not so great. That’s why this Babel plugin is so useful. …
What the heck is the event loop anyway?
In 2014, Philip Roberts gave a great talk at JSConf EU, walking through the event loop and breaking down what JavaScript is doing under the hood for those of us without CS degrees. I came across this talk the other …
10k Apart
This year is An Event Apart’s 10th anniversary. In order to celebrate, they are putting on competition called 10K Apart where people show off what can be accomplished in 10kB of data. This isn’t a new competetion- its first genesis …
High Performance SVGs
I recently worked on a project that was getting a ton of traffic but users were bouncing because the page load was too long at around 10 seconds. They called me in because the majority of the images on …
Collaborative Engineering and Design Tools
Working at any large company, the greatest hurdle is always the problem of scale. Be it engineering, design, or how they work together, communication is the key to a successful business. Here are some of the tools that I’ve …
Interactive Data Visualization: Animating the viewBox
Controlling the way that a data visualization lays out on your page on the fly is powerful in terms of conveying information. In the past, we’ve talked about how we can use this to hide and show information for responsive …
