Perspectives / Field notes / Practice
Ideas Worth Building
Strategy / Design / Engineering / Experience
What I learn while making websites work.
01 / Featured perspectiveDesign decisions that last
Essay / Design + Engineering
A beautiful site that doesn’t work isn’t good design.
Design starts with how people understand and use a product. How it looks comes after.
Read the essay02 / Reading indexEssays and case studies
Six things worth reading.
- Explaining a technical service without dumbing it down.
Studio render01 / Engineering / Content · Field notesMake complexity feel clear. - A personal brand that sounds like the person.
Studio render02 / Identity / Personal brands · Case studyPersonality is the point. - One story, told the same way on every screen.
Studio render03 / Product / Experience · Case studyOne story. Many screens. - The code behind a calmer legal app.
Studio render04 / Systems / Product · Case studyThe invisible decisions. - What WCAG 2.2 AA asks, and why it is decided in the design.
Studio render05 / Accessibility / Engineering · StandardsInclusive by default. - Core Web Vitals, budgets, and the choices that keep a page fast.
06 / Performance / Web · EssaySpeed is a design decision.
Essays, field notes and the case studies they come from.
03 / How I thinkEvery project has its own right answer
Less noise. / Better questions.
Good ideas don’t need to shout. They need to work.
What connects these notes is simple: design decisions of my own, checked against the people who use them and the limits they have to live with.
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