On Type Patterns and Style Guides
Over the last six years or so, I’ve been using these things I’ve been calling “type patterns” in my web design work, and they’ve worked out pretty well for me. I’ll dig into what they are and how they can …
Derek is a goal-driven designer in the webspace. His favorite tools are pencils and papers and hands and ears, and he LOVES building lean prototypes with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (and talking to real humans about them.) He originally went to school for painting and printmaking and, while there, fooled around with Flash and themed a LOT of myspace pages. In 2010 he decided to focus on the web and took Chris's Lynda.com course - and hasn't stopped building websites since. He's had fancy-sounding titles like "Senior Product Designer" - but really, he's just a person. He now works fulltime training a new generation of radical designers/developers at Perpetual Dot Education.
Over the last six years or so, I’ve been using these things I’ve been calling “type patterns” in my web design work, and they’ve worked out pretty well for me. I’ll dig into what they are and how they can …