Chapter Five: Layers
Design for Developers — Web Witch
A companion site for the Design for Developers book, rebuilt to practice the fundamentals the book teaches.
Theming atproto · blog.damato.design
Taking Mise en Mode into the new web standard
Brutalist Web Design
Guidelines for web design that adhere to the tenets and ethos of Brutalism
The Elephant in the Room: Web design work is drying up | Hacker News
- A "web designer" or "web developer" used to be a generalist who wrote HTML, CSS, and some jQuery. Now there's a demand for specialization: a UI/UX designer who can prototype, iterate quickly, and use real data if possible, and a UI/UX engineer who can develop large-scale apps with an eye towards security, performance, reusability, and maintainability.
Building The Next Web
This is the kick-off post in a series in which I'm going to explore things that we could change about the Web. The odds are pretty good that I will be wrong, possibly even very wrong. You're going to dislike some, or perhaps all of it! My point isn't to jump straight into building these ideas — even though I do believe they point in a better direction and are feasible — but rather to break out of the incrementalist rut and stagnant vision that the Web finds itself mired in. It's not in a good place and I feel the need for more vision work and much more thinking about architectural interventions that can bring about radical change.
Why design systems are a single point of failure
Tools and techniques to prevent design system collapse
Webdesign as architecture
An attempt at modelling digital design as a form of psychological architecture, taking the form of a single HTML document.
How to Fix the Web | Brave
The Web is always in trouble for some reason or other. I remember when Microsoft came after Netscape and threatened to lock Web standards into IE. Only the Web is so big, with such reach to billions of users, that no one owns it. This means it will always be contested ground.
The modern web is becoming an unusable, user-hostile wasteland
Some thoughts about the modern web
Meltdown, Spectre, and the Costs of Unchecked Innovation
Spectre fixes forced browsers to break the compatibility covenant of the web. Other unchecked technologies could cause even deeper damage.
Object-Oriented UX
We know big, monolithic webpages won’t meet the needs of responsive sites and endless screens. But we’re often still quilting together design patterns and content modules, rather than truly thinkin…
Rethinking the creative web: Part 3 — Towards a new read/write web
Part 3 looks towards a future inhabited by new tools, behaviours, and standards that champion user agency and creativity on the open web.
