Help keep your design and development consistent — Design tokens are relatively new. You might be asking at this point ‘what is a design token’, and I’m going to lay that out for you. …

I didn’t expect things to go as smooth with a web builder — I have been struggling for a while with my previous platform of choice… Wordpress. It seems to be the CMS of choice for many, and with good reason as it doesn’t require much in the way of custom coding with all of the plug-in options. …

Often disregarded or overlooked methods for an easier coding experience — As a web developer and designer, I often code with a team. Typically as a front-end developer, you end up with the start of the project before anyone else so it’s important to start with a good foundation for not only yourself but others as well. I want to share…

A short log of my initial setup experience and some tips I learnt along the way — I’ve been a Wordpress developer for the past decade or more. I’ve learnt plenty but over the last short while I’m finding it more cumbersome and annoying than it is helpful. I wanted to move to a simple CMS that still allows me to build from scratch and gives me…

Closer pixel perfect outcomes, and continuing to learn new techniques in HTML / CSS for a better web — I’ve been a front-end developer and designer with a primary focus on HTML/CSS for a little more than a decade. I realize that many focus beyond these initial languages, mostly on Javascript, which makes complete sense. …

About the necessity of steady design improvement over time — Entropy is the increase of disorder over time. Meaning that once something exists, it starts along the path of deterioration or non-existence. It sound’s grim, but when you think about it, it couldn’t be more accurate. I want to talk about design entropy and how it affects our clients, products…

It’s important to look after body when often being seated — If you’re working the majority of your day’s sitting down like myself, you might be finding the odd time that you’re waking up with body aches or even just having trouble sleeping. Sitting down for 8+ hours a day at a desk can be taxing on your body, and it’s…

Designing for users that don’t necessarily look, act or think like yourself — Designing often requires an out-of-the-box mindset that puts us in the frame of mind to advocate for our users and show empathy for those who might not think, act or look exactly like ourselves. Being aware of diversity and making an effort to include everyone in the user experiences you’re…

You won’t have users if you don’t have their attention — The average user’s attention span around the time smartphones came into play was around 12 seconds. Today we’re seeing the average attention span lowering to about 8 seconds. That doesn’t present much time for you to captivate your user and encourage them to continue interacting with your website. It can…