After the noise
Essays on generative interfaces, honest dispatches from the frontier, and the signal you need when the ground is shifting.
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Design tools have traditionally represented design as pixels and rectangles — things that look like the outcome but aren't it. We're finally ready for something smarter.
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Since the Mac, design tooling has revolved around dragging rectangles. And yet I see nothing to tie the role of designer to rectangle-dragger.
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We built react-sketchapp — an open-source library that lets you write React components that render to Sketch documents. Here's what we've been doing with it.
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Design is a process of divergence and convergence. Our tools should speak the language of that process — not force us to translate our ideas into rectangles first.
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What happens when you try to teach a machine everything we know about typography? In 2016 I started finding out.
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All communication technologies are suffering a joint metamorphosis, which can only be understood properly if treated as a single subject — and only advanced if treated as a single craft.
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Learning Clojure or Haskell will make you a better programmer. Functional programming is infectious — and there are a bunch of lessons we can bring back into CSS.
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Design tools have traditionally represented design as pixels and rectangles — things that look like the outcome but aren't it. We're finally ready for something smarter.
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Since the Mac, design tooling has revolved around dragging rectangles. And yet I see nothing to tie the role of designer to rectangle-dragger.
Read more
We built react-sketchapp — an open-source library that lets you write React components that render to Sketch documents. Here's what we've been doing with it.
Read more
Design is a process of divergence and convergence. Our tools should speak the language of that process — not force us to translate our ideas into rectangles first.
Read more
What happens when you try to teach a machine everything we know about typography? In 2016 I started finding out.
Read more
All communication technologies are suffering a joint metamorphosis, which can only be understood properly if treated as a single subject — and only advanced if treated as a single craft.
Read more
Learning Clojure or Haskell will make you a better programmer. Functional programming is infectious — and there are a bunch of lessons we can bring back into CSS.
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