Speaking about style guides I had the opportunity to speak at the Girl Develop It Minneapolis Chapter Monthly Meetup. It's been awhile since I've done a presentation and I was a bid nervous since I did not know if the audience would be interested …
CSS Grid Layout and Flexbox layout experiment
Experimenting with Layout It's exciting to read about the growing support for CSS Grid Layouts. As it becomes more of a reality, I really wanted to become more comfortable with how to create a layout and brush up on the properties needed. CSS Grid …
Design crash and treatment
Recently, I think I was on the verge of a design crash. As designers, we take a lot of crap. Other industries do too, so this isn't completely exclusive to design. Restaurant servers, retail employees, nurses, and many other occupations are very …
Control typography flow with vh and vw units
Precise typography design on the web has never been easier with specialized units of measure. When you want beautiful typography to display no matter what the screensize is, there are vh and vw style settings. This controls the width and height of …
Design portfolio reflections
My website redesign was extremely long overdue, it's almost embarrassing that I let it go this long. I could give a long list of excuses as to why but the important thing is that it is better than the last version. Continuous improvement, right? As …
