Pre Commit Hooks: Combating Laziness
I have to admit that I'm absolutely lazy when it comes to actually testing and linting my Javascript code. I make sure it works but not to run unit tests or make sure that the code I write follows the...
Variable fonts for the win!
A lot of this material is taken from Get started with variable fonts and the CSS Fonts Module Level 4 Version 1.8 of the OpenType font format specification introduces an extensive new technology,...
What do we need to do to test apps in browsers
I came across this question in Quora and prepared a detailed answer but the more I think about it the more I think it deserves a more elaborate answer because it starts from a false premise, that you...
Empathy in Design and Development: Conclusion and References
I know we've jumped all over the place but I want to distill some final thoughts Put the user first Seamless is a food delivery service that’s incredibly popular on the East Coast. In 2013, they...
Empathy in Design and Development: Processes and Tooling
The final empathy area I want to discuss is process and tooling. Who are we doing this for and what tools we're using to develop Who? # There are three groups of people we should empathize with:...
Empathy in Design and Development: Accessibility
Accessibility is like dirty laundry we all know we should worry about it but we never do until we have no choice (and I'm the first one to admit that I suck at being proactive about addressing...
Empathy in Design and Development: Analytics as a User Research Tool
Another thing to do when looking at what our users do on our site is to see where they come from and what device they are browsing with. I used to not care as much about where users were coming from...
Empathy in Design and Development: Different writing modes for different languages
Figures 6 and 7, sideways writing modes, will not work on Chrome. If you want to see what they look like, try viewing the page in Firefox. People who I deeply admire and whose work I respect have been...
Empathy in Design and Development: Unicode and why it's important
Before we jump into the mechanics of displaying content in languages other than English on the web, we need to take a little detour and speak about character encodings, character sets, code points,...
Empathy in Design and Development: Research
Walk a mile in their shoe is more than a platitude. I have to admit I'm the first one who some times takes for granted that the page will load in x seconds because that's how long it takes for the...