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Matanuska ADR 011 - Let and Assign Semantics

This article is a repost of an ADR from Matanuska BASIC, my attempt to write a B...

Essential Linux Commands for DevOps Engineers

As a DevOps engineer, mastering Linux commands is fundamental for managing infra...

Beware the Cut ‘n’ Paste Persona

This Person Does Not Exist is a website that generates human faces with a machi...

That’s Not My Burnout

Are you like me, reading about people fading away as they burn out, and feeling...

Asynchronous Design Critique: Giving Feedback

Feedback, in whichever form it takes, and whatever it may be called, is one of ...

Asynchronous Design Critique: Getting Feedback

“Any comment?” is probably one of the worst ways to ask for feedback. It’s vagu...

Designing for the Unexpected

I’m not sure when I first heard this quote, but it’s something that has stayed ...

Voice Content and Usability

We’ve been having conversations for thousands of years. Whether to convey infor...

Design for Safety, An Excerpt

Antiracist economist Kim Crayton says that “intention without strategy is chaos...

Sustainable Web Design, An Excerpt

In the 1950s, many in the elite running community had begun to believe it wasn’...

A Content Model Is Not a Design System

Do you remember when having a great website was enough? Now, people are getting...

How to Sell UX Research with Two Simple Questions

Do you find yourself designing screens with only a vague idea of how the things...

Breaking Out of the Box

CSS is about styling boxes. In fact, the whole web is made of boxes, from the b...

Designers, (Re)define Success First

About two and a half years ago, I introduced the idea of daily ethical design. ...

Mobile-First CSS: Is It Time for a Rethink?

The mobile-first design methodology is great—it focuses on what really matters ...