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New Jan 6, 2025
Frostapalooza: one epic night
Frostapalooza was a one-of-a-kind concert and an unabashed celebration of love, joy, fun, music, creativity, and positivity. It was an excuse to celebrate our talents and collective human potential....
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New Dec 23, 2024
Introducing Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens
BIG NEWS! We’re hard at work making an online course called Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens. Over the past decade, Ian Frost and I have created design token systems for dozens of...
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New Dec 5, 2024
React v19 – React
React v19 was just released with support for Web Components! React 19 adds full support for custom elements and passes all tests on Custom Elements Everywhere. In past versions, using Custom Elements...
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New Dec 5, 2024
My Sketch – OpenProcessing
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New Dec 2, 2024
Come to Pittsburgh Plays The Cure!
FRIENDS! FAMILY! COUNTRYMEN! On Saturday, December 14th I’ll be performing as part of Pittsburgh Plays The Cure at the beautiful Roxian Theatre. Several super groups comprised of...
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New Nov 30, 2024
kirby vs. this blog post
kirby vs. this blog post is an incredible piece of web design. Well...
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New Nov 27, 2024
Ella’s First Website
ULTRA PROUD DAD MOMENT: Ella made her first website! Melissa and I woke up on Saturday morning to our goofy 6-year-old daughter entering our bedroom making this obnoxious sound. It was impressively...
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New Nov 26, 2024
My ADHD diagnosis process
I recently shared that I was diagnosed with ADHD. I write these words 12 days into medication and holy shit I feel totally transformed. The stuck, scrambly feelings and frustration have nearly...
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New Nov 16, 2024
ADHD
I woke up this morning, took a pill, and proceeded to have one of the most productive writing days I’ve had in perhaps years. The day prior, a doctor diagnosed me with Adult ADHD. I finally drew...
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New Nov 15, 2024
Design Systems Q&A
I recently had the pleasure of doing a Q&A session with Molly Helmuth’s Design System Bootcamp cohort. The questions were great and varied, so I asked Molly if she’d be alright if I...
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New Nov 13, 2024
An app can be a home-cooked meal
I am the programÂming equivÂaÂlent of a home cook. The exhorÂtaÂtion “learn to code” has its founÂdaÂtions in market value. “Learn to code” is suggested as a way up, a way out. “Learn to code” offers...
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New Nov 11, 2024
Museum of Modern Fart
Museum of Modern Fart. This is what the internet was always...
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New Nov 11, 2024
In this house…
I made this sign to try to capture how I’m feeling about everything right...
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New Nov 8, 2024
Tim Brown: Flexible Typesetting is now yours, for free
The great and kind Tim Brown has made his Flexible Typesetting A Book Apart book available for...
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New Nov 27, 2024
Goodbye, Twitter.
Here’s how you can find and follow me: It’s difficult to express just how important and meaningful Twitter was to my life and career. I’m sad to leave it behind, but I have to now....
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New Oct 28, 2024
Web Component continued progress
At Big Medium, we’re fans of Web Components, and over the last 6 years have been helping our clients build standards-based, interoperable, design systems with them. The ability to deliver a...
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New Oct 28, 2024
Mundango
Mundango is a simple game by Dave Rupert about noticing the small things in life. More of this...
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New Oct 18, 2024
Frostapalooza: Reflecting Two Months Later – Ian Frost Weather
Here’s Ian’s recap of Frostapalooza. Folks didn’t just show up, but everyone was so kind and encouraging. It was never about them, it was about the show and how we could make it as...
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New Oct 16, 2024
Cameron’s World
Cameron’s World is a web-collage of text and images excavated from the buried neighbourhoods of archived GeoCities pages (1994–2009). Holy shit this is amazing: Cameron’s...
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New Oct 16, 2024
Hire HTML and CSS people
Every problem at every company I’ve ever worked at eventually boils down to “please dear god can we just hire people who know how to write HTML and CSS.” This UX is awful? That UI looks old?...
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New Oct 16, 2024
“The design system isn’t working for me!”
When design system users run into issues designing and developing with the system, they often have a hard time distinguishing between a bug, a missing feature, an intentional design deviation, a new...
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New Oct 4, 2024
Why every UX/UI designer should attend a masterclass with Brad Frost | by Zoi
Well this is just a really nice piece of flattery, and a nice breakdown of my design system masterclass I delivered at HATCH Conference in Berlin last year. I truly enjoy teaching masterclasses,...
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New Oct 4, 2024
Design systems die in darkness
When you don’t hear from teams using your design system, we’ve learned over the years that it’s typically not a sign of “everything is going great” but “something...
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New Sep 28, 2024
Playing at Pittsburgh Plays The Cure
I’m happy to announce that I’ll be playing bass as part of the Pittsburgh Plays concert series on December 14th at The Roxian Theatre. From Pittsburgh Play’s website: Pittsburgh...
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New Sep 26, 2024
Approachable Open Source by Brian Muenzenmeyer
You should buy Approachable Open Source by Brian Muenzenmeyer. If you written code before, you should buy this book. If you’ve ever spent any time on GitHub, you should buy this book. If you...
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New Sep 25, 2024
Workshop: Craft AI-Powered Experiences with Sentient Design
Now available! We offer private workshops to teach product and design teams to imagine, design, and deliver AI-powered features and products. It’s all backed by Big Medium’s Sentient Design...
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New Sep 23, 2024
SmashingConf NYC
I’m extremely excited to be a part of Smashing Conf NYC coming up on October 7-10. I’ll be: If you’re in NYC or able to make it there, I hope you’re able to make...
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New Sep 19, 2024
The already-here future of prototyping
I’ve spent pretty much my entire career helping teams design software rather than pictures of software. Development is design. Frontend design. Front-of-front-end code. Front-end workshop...
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New Sep 16, 2024
Web Components for Framework Developers – Tony Ward
Web Components are great for building Design Systems that need to work across multiple frameworks. If you’ve been working in framework-land for quite some time now, you may find some topics...
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New Sep 12, 2024
Creative Exploration
I came across this great post by my friend Cameron Moll on LinkedIn. He says: Telling designers they shouldn’t use high-fidelity designs early in the exploration process can be the equivalent of...