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Web Design/Development 2023 State of Design Systems and Where We Take Them Next
Design systems. It’s a specialty that has grown in the short amount of time that I’ve been developing the web and something that intrigues business[…]
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Life Word of the Year: Power
As work has slowed down going into the holiday season, it has given me a chance to reflect on the past year. Despite being very[…]
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Web Design/Development Finding Common Patterns Across Frameworks
“I really like React, but I’m stuck writing code in Angular.” “I know Vue really well, but I’ve been hearing about web components a lot[…]
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Web Design/Development 1 Design System. 1 Stylesheet. Less than 18 hours. 3 Frameworks. React vs. Angular vs. Vue.
Us: “What are you using to build your site?”Client: “React.”Us: “Why are you using React?”Client: “…because it is the hot thing.” This is something that[…]
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Life 2020: A Year To Learn From and Grow
On Christmas Eve, I sat down with my wife, Meghan, to join a Zoom call with extended family. We normally see these faces on the[…]
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Life The Year of “I Don’t Know”
“Today is my birthday…and…I’m getting drunker.” – Darrell Hammond, A&E Biography of Tiger Woods on SNL On this day last year, I was sitting at[…]
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Life 9 Months of Hell
The past 9 months of my life have been hell. I’m not talking about the “oh this thing is bad for a second” kind of[…]
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Web Design/Development Linking InVision’s DSM with React
Two of the hottest things in web design and design systems: React and InVision’s Design System Manager (DSM). Separately these are cool, but what if[…]
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Web Design/Development Why Being Too Polite in Web Design Is a Bad Thing…
“You’re too polite.” These are words that were said to me the other day about my work by my frequent collaborator and brilliant designer, Dan[…]
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Web Design/Development Introducing Style Guide Guide, Gatsby Edition!
Brad Frost and I are happy to introduce to the world a new React-based Style Guide Guide, Gatsby Edition! Brad and I built the design system reference site boilerplate Style[…]
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Life 30 Years of Living, 30 Items of Lessons Learned
30 things I have learned in the exactly 30 years I have lived: Good family and friends makes a big difference Laugh every goddamn day[…]
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Life Ode To Gramps
“Doc” “Bob” “Uncle Bob” “Dad” “Grandpa” To me and many of his other grandchildren: “Gramps.” 7 children. 13 grandchildren. 10 great-grandchildren and soon to be[…]
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Web Design/Development 2017 Web Roundup, Gratitude, and Looking Ahead
On a macroscopic level, 2017 was not the most favorable year in terms of morality and humanity in my opinion. However, I try to look[…]
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Web Design/Development 2 Frontend Designers. 12 Days. 1 Website. How We Did It
Stock up on La Croix. Make sure another big project is going on to make things even more challenging Make a great website using guidelines we[…]
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Life Hard Work Is…
Hard work. What is it? Who does it? Where is it? Hard work is the nurse who cares for patients and cleans up their bodily fluids[…]
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Web Design/Development Learning the Web Using Atomic Design
As many of you web designers and developers know, my brother Brad Frost’s book Atomic Design has recently been released into the wild. As many of you[…]
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Life Web Design/Development Just Wanted to Say Thanks
There’s not a day that goes by where I don’t think of how grateful I am for things in my life. I know it can[…]
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Web Design/Development An Event Apart San Francisco 2016: Lessons Learned
After Web Design Day in Pittsburgh, I wrote about my personal takeaways from the web conference. So I am going to do the same thing[…]
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Web Design/Development 1 Year Anniversary Working For Brad Frost Web
Exactly 1 year ago today, I started working for my brother, Brad Frost. It could’ve gone two ways: 1) I fall into place in the wonderful world of web[…]
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Web Design/Development Pattern Lab 2: The Next Generation
Spread the word! Pattern Lab 2 has finally been released after 2 and a half years of progress. While working for Brad Frost I have had[…]