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New Aug 28, 2025
The History of Themeable User Interfaces
A full-ish history of user interfaces that can be themed to meet the opportunities and constraints of the...
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New Aug 21, 2025
Design System Awards by zeroheight
I’m thrilled to be a juror for the upcoming Design System Awards from zeroheight. Only a few more days to submit your design system for...
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New Aug 21, 2025
Logoipsum
Logoipsum provides free SVG placeholder logos to use in mockups and prototypes. I’m definitely going to be making use of this for all sorts of things. via the always-amazing...
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New Aug 18, 2025
Smart Quotes for Smart People
I just visited Smart Quotes For Smart People for some copy/paste action! Shout-out to Jason Santa Maria for keeping some wonderful old-gold websites...
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New Aug 18, 2025
Frostapalooza Concert Videos Live!
Exactly one year ago I was playing music with an amorphous super group consisting of all of my musical friends and family. The event was called Frostapalooza and was one of the best experiences of my...
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New Aug 15, 2025
Introducing Wake Up Excited!
I’m so incredibly excited to announce my exciting new podcast called Wake Up Excited! Can you tell I’m excited? I’d absolutely love it if you subscribe to the show and/or watch it on...
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New Aug 13, 2025
Happy 40th Birthday, Melissa!
HAPPY 40th birthday to Melissa, the most amazing wife, mom, friend, daughter, sister, aunt, cousin, polymath, arts therapist, musician, singer, pianist, drummer, guitarist, artist, metalsmith,...
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New Aug 12, 2025
Jamie Lee Curtis isn’t just having a moment, she is THE moment.
Ian sent me this clip Jamie Lee Curtis on the Tonight Show with Stephen Colbert. It is phenomenal. I adore her. I resonate with so much with what she describes here. I too am an artist. I too have...
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New Aug 12, 2025
Sun Spat by EMEFE
I’m obsessed with this song by EMEFE; the build, the motif, and how it ultimately locks in is absolutely incredible. I’m diving into more of their music, but this is...
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New Aug 5, 2025
10 years of working with my brother, Ian!
I’ve been putting my younger brother Ian to work for his entire life. See Exhibit A: Why yes, that is my crawling baby brother hitched with a string to a wagon I made out of Waffle Blocks. Fast...
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New Aug 5, 2025
Vibe code is legacy code | Val Town Blog
Vibe code is legacy code. There’s some great stuff in this article When you vibe code, you are incurring tech debt as fast as the LLM can spit it out. Which is why vibe coding is perfect for...
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New Aug 1, 2025
Before I go: Always buy the $200 Yamaha – daverupert.com
Dave’s right: always buy the $200 Yamaha. A $200 Epiphone will also suffice. This lesson I’ve learned — and apparently Chris has also learned — is that for some things spending a...
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New Aug 7, 2025
Bigger Than Boxes: A 41st Thought at 41
We are bigger than the boxes created by society and our own limiting...
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New Jul 31, 2025
WCAG in Plain English by AAArdvark
Making accessibility standards easy to understand, one success criterion at a time. WCAG in Plain English is fantastic. It breaks down each WCAG standard and goes into details with beautiful headlines...
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New Jul 23, 2025
Introducing my new Atomic Design Certification Course!
TL;DR: You can preorder my new Atomic Design Certification Course for only $50! Why create an Atomic Design Certification Course? I’ve got big ambitious for this course, and I’m aiming to:...
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New Jul 21, 2025
Foreword to Learning Web Design by Jennifer Robbins
I had the biggest honor to review and write the foreword for the 5th edition of Jennifer Robbins’ book, Learning Web Design. The foreword itself explains why it’s such a huge honor, so...
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New Jul 2, 2025
Website Headlines (dotcom)
Great source of inspiration for punchy headlines: Website Headlines (dotcom) I find myself in the position of needing to write headlines, and almost never love anything LLMs come up with. This feels...
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New Jul 2, 2025
Chris’ Corner: Tokens – CodePen
I like Chris waxing on design tokens and am glad our Shop Talk Show appearance gave some food for thought. While not every organization is wrestling with a Multi-All-The-Things situation, every...
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New Jul 1, 2025
Humility Over Time
This feels like a trajectory worth striving...
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New Jun 30, 2025
How to make a design system that’s not boring
I had a great conversation with Jason Lengstorf on his Learn With Jason show. We talked about design tokens, the importance of design system recipes, our new course, and the need for healthier/more...
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New Aug 27, 2025
The New Separation of Concerns
In our new comprehensive online course, Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens, we discuss the need to revisit the powerful concept of separation of concerns. Separation of concerns is a...
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New Jun 18, 2025
Refresh PGH is being refreshed!
Well, here’s some great news: Refresh PGH is being…refreshed! My pals Jason, Val, and Patrick are reviving the Pittsburgh web design/development meetup that played such an important role...
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New Jun 12, 2025
The Multi-All-The-Things Organization
Note: This post is adapted from our new online course, Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens. Our comprehensive course delivers over 13 hours of video, enterprise-grade token architecture for...
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New Jun 25, 2025
We’re hiring an apprentice!
Note: we’ve lined someone up, which means submissions for the apprenticeship are now closed. But please keep your eyes peeled for future opportunities. Ian and I have a ton of fun projects...
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New Jun 7, 2025
Brad Frost, Web Designer – UNIQUEWAYS podcast
I appeared on the UNIQUEWAYS podcast with Thomas Girard, an interesting show where the guests are all asked the same set of questions. It was...
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May 26, 2025
A Change Of Scenery Will Serve You Well
A...
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May 18, 2025
Atomic Design, Tokens, AI and the Future of Design Systems – Experience Designed Podcast
I had the pleasure of speaking with Vy Alechnavicius on the Experienced Design podcast. We had a great wide-ranging...
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May 14, 2025
Open Up, Episode 2: Fundamentals, Principles, Navigating an Imperfect World, Collaboration, and Old Friends
I’m late in posting this because boy oh boy, there’s been a lot going on. But Episode 2 of our show Open Up is out! Geoff and I tackled some great questions and covered a lot of ground in...