Consistent Design Systems in Sketch With Atomic Design and the Auto-Layout Plugin
Do you design digital products (or websites) and hand design files off to developers for implementation? If you answered yes, settle in! While the should-designers-code debate rages on, we’re going to look at how adding a methodology to your design workflow can make you faster, more consistent, and loved by all developers… even if you don’t code.
Let’s dig in!
Why a methodology?
In the development world, it seems like at least half of your career is about staying up …
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CSS-Tricks Chronicle XXXIII
It’s been many months since our last CSS-Tricks Chronicle. As a reminder, these are just little roundups of news of a slightly more personal nature and that of the site itself and surrounding projects.
Last update, I wasn’t even a dad yet! That’s changed 😍. My daughter is going in for her four-month checkup today!
I’m also working out of a brand new office here in Bend, Oregon. We split the space with CraftCMS. It’s the first time …
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Design Microsites
Google, Airbnb, Slack, MailChimp, Facebook, Etsy, IBM, Dropbox… everybody has a design site these days.
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Extinct & Endangered
I’ve been watching a lot of nature documentaries lately. I like how you can either pay super close attention to them, or use them as background TV. I was a massive fan of the original Blue Planet, so it’s been cool watching the Blue Planet II episodes drop recently, as one example. A typical nature documentary will always have a little look how bad we’re screwing up the environment twist, which is the perfect time and place for such …
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Vox Accessibility Guidelines
I remember seeing these accessibility guidelines from Vox a while ago but it’s still interesting to go over them again today and see if there’s anything missing from my own process when it comes to improving accessibility.
And there’s an awful lot to remember! Color contrast, alt-text, keyboard navigation, focus states, and ARIA attributes are only a small snippet of the total number of things we ought to be mindful of when designing websites and so this checklist is certainly …
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How To Accelerate Your Conversion Process On Your WordPress Site
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Some Things About `alt` Text
I’m sure you know about alt text. It’s the attribute on the image tag that has the important task of describing what that image is for someone who can’t see it for any reason. Please use them.
I don’t want to dimish the please use them message, but some interesting alt-text-related things have come up in my day-to-day lately that are related.
When you don’t
Hidde de Vries wrote You don’t always need alternative text recently:
But when an icon …
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Yoast Launches Fund to Increase Speaker Diversity at Tech Conferences
Why Your eCommerce Store Needs AMPs ASAP
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