Category: "Design"

• Design Tokens beyond colors, typography, and spacing.

  January 16, 2020  –  Tags: Design System / Design Tokens

• Measuring the Impact of a Design System

  January 29, 2019  –  Tags: Design / Design System / Front-End

• Generating multi-brand multi-platform icons with Sketch and a Node.js script — Part #2

  Second part: the build script and the generation of the assets.

  December 6, 2018  –  Tags: Design System

• Generating multi-brand multi-platform icons with Sketch and a Node.js script — Part #1

  First part: from the idea to the assets Sketch files.

  December 5, 2018  –  Tags: Design System

• How to manage your Design Tokens with Style Dictionary

  September 17, 2018  –  Tags: Design System / Design Tokens

• From zero to Cosmos — Part #3

  Third part: where I show where we are today, and where we think we will be in the future

  February 22, 2018  –  Tags: Design System

• From zero to Cosmos — Part #2

  Second part: here come the dragons, and where the “grand plan” takes place

  February 14, 2018  –  Tags: Design System

• From zero to Cosmos — Part #1

  First part: where everything started, and where I reaped the fruits of my labour

  February 5, 2018  –  Tags: Design System

• Chemistry over Culture

  An interesting discussion about the meaning of these two words, and possible implications in their use.

  December 2, 2017  –  Tags: Conferences / diversity / Management / Think

• Systemantics

  A review of a book that has a lot to say about systems: how they works, how they fail, but most of all how we should build them

  June 11, 2017  –  Tags: Design / Think / web components / Web Design

• Algorithms, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and us Designers

  A transcript of the Interaction Design London meetup

  June 30, 2016  –  Tags: Design / future / meetups / Think / UX

• Industry Conf 2016

  An unexpected conference in Newcastle

  April 21, 2016  –  Tags: Conferences / Design / Front-End / give back

• Design Principles are for humans, not machines

  Don Norman and Bruce Tognazzini explain how and why they formalised the principles of good, understandable design in Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines (and much more)

  November 25, 2015  –  Tags: Apple / Design / Quotes / UI

• Readings for Lunch

  A newsletter with hand picked interesting links, delivered in your inbox every day at lunch time

  April 15, 2015  –  Tags: Creative / Front-End / give back / Think / Web Design

• Design is a slow, iterative, empathic process

  Then, and only after that, it becomes (also) a creative effort

  February 25, 2015  –  Tags: Design / Experience

• I‘m a Front-End Developer

  But I am not a Javascript ninja, and I am proud of it

  November 27, 2014  –  Tags: Coding / Design / Front-End / HTML / UX / Web Design

• When creativity meets fun and friendship

  This post is dedicated to a special friend and colleague, that deserves even more than the Smashing Magazine homepage.

  September 4, 2014  –  Tags: ilpiac / keming / kerning / lettering / letterpress / moo / printing

• Can Design be entirely “Agile”?

  Constant sprint-based design leads to shiteration. Design that's rushed with no holistic vision.

  September 2, 2014  –  Tags: Agile / Design

• Material Design

  The new design language presented at Google I/O

  June 26, 2014  –  Tags: google i/o / material design

• Design and user-experience, as always

  Also in 2014 they will remain a key factor in product design

  January 15, 2014  –  Tags: Design / UX

• This is design: foresight & empathy

  The two most important quality of a designer (and both comes with experience).

  November 13, 2013  –  Tags: Design

• What the web is made of?

  “We are such stuff. As dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” – Shakespeare

  October 25, 2013  –  Tags: HTML / Think

• CSS methodologies debunked

  OOCSS, SMACSS, BEM. WTFCSS?

  October 22, 2013  –  Tags: Coding / CSS

• This is design: taking responsibility

  Because we are directly responsible for what we put into the world

  October 20, 2013  –  Tags: Design / Think

• This is design: convincing someone else

  Because our job is (also) convincing people of things

  October 10, 2013  –  Tags: Design

• Development is design

  And I would add also: design is development

  October 9, 2013  –  Tags: Creative / Design / Front-End / Think / Web Design

• This is f*#%ing design

  Sometimes is sad to see how YOU are bad at design, compared to these tops

  September 18, 2013  –  Tags: Design / UI / Web Design

• Slides are easy

  Some tips on how to make you presentation look better (and why you should).

  September 18, 2013  –  Tags: Design / Lectures / Speaker / Talk

• This is great design

  The new page transition in Medium is soooo nice!

  September 17, 2013  –  Tags: Design / UI / UX

• This is design

  Because small details really make the difference

  September 11, 2013  –  Tags: Apple / Design

• What design is

  September 10, 2013  –  Tags: Design / Think