by wdanielson | Oct 13, 2017 | Web Development
If you’ve ever coded an animation that’s longer than 10 seconds with dozens or even hundreds of choreographed elements, you know how challenging it can be to avoid the dreaded “wall of code”. Worse yet, editing an animation that was built by...
by wdanielson | Oct 6, 2017 | Web Development
Globally, the media control icons are some of the most universally understood visual language in any kind of interface. A designer can simply assume that every user not only knows ▶️ = play, but that users will seek out the icon in order to watch any video or...
by wdanielson | Sep 22, 2017 | Web Development
Recently I had the experience of reviewing a project and accessing its scalability and maintainability. There were a few bad practices here and there, a few strange pieces of code with lack of meaningful comments. Nothing uncommon for a relatively big (legacy)...
by wdanielson | Sep 14, 2017 | Web Development
It probably always will be, to be fair. At the moment, there are all kinds of things that design software is struggling to address. The term “screen design” is common, referring to the fact that many of us are designing very specifically for screens, not...
by wdanielson | Sep 13, 2017 | Web Development
Sometimes when you’re designing something, you need little helping hands. Perhaps a nice stock photo. Perhaps a happy little color palette. Perhaps a bleep or bloop sound. Perhaps the perfect icon. There are tons and tons of sites that do those things. There are...
by wdanielson | Sep 12, 2017 | Web Development
During a having a team meeting the other day, a code formatting idea came up that I thought was super interesting. It had to do with formatting code in a such a way that made it easier to find what you were looking for later with any code editors “Find in...
