I was working with a student developer recently who was putting together a new site for a massive archive. She was doing the bulk of the technical heavy lifting while I sat by dallying with CSS and font sizes, and drinking a refreshing Dr. Pepper. After she finished the algorithms to migrate the data and … Continue reading “The Ubiquitous Design of Nutrition Facts”

Many of us work in places where design guidelines for components, patterns, and heuristics are already developed for the products we’re working on. Many of us do not. I went from super-documented world to please-write-documentation world and TBQH I am in my glory because I get to write rules and rule sets and examples and … Continue reading “Back to Basics: Writing design guidelines”

  You know the old adage about the person who walks into the hole over and over, before spotting it and walking around it and then avoiding it altogether? That’s been my entire work career. I’ve been trying desperately not to step into the hole. I’ve been burned out twice now. In both cases, I … Continue reading “Stepping Out Of The Hole, or How I Learned To Save Myself”