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Declarative Design Tools
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Dragging Rectangles
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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Painting With Code
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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Declarative Design Tools
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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Taking The Robots To Design School
What happens when you try to teach a machine everything we know about typography? In 2016 I started finding out.
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A Single Craft
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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Functional Programming, CSS, and your sanity
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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