Articles Tagged design principles

It is technically true that anyone can cook. But there’s a difference between actually knowing how to prepare a delicious meal and hoping for the best as you throw a few ingredients in a pot. Just like web development, you might know the ingredients—<span></span>, background-color, .heading-1—but not everyone knows how to turn those ingredients into a beautiful, easy-to-use website.

Whenever you use HTML and CSS, you are designing—giving form and structure to content so it can … Read article “Design Principles for Developers: Processes and CSS Tips for Better Web Design”

Let me just frame this for you: we’re going to take a piece of production UI from a Sketch file, break it down into pieces of information and then build it up into a story we tell our friends. Our friends might be hearing, or seeing, or touching the story so we are going to interpret and translate the same information for different people. We’re going to interpret the colors and the typography and even the sizes, and express them … Read article “Telling the Story of Graphic Design”