Last week I gave a talk on understanding UI design, which you can check out on YouTube here. A bit related, I found this old note on my computer. I don’t know when I wrote this. But I figured I’d post it to my blog. Being a UI designer means… Discussing the difference between UI […]
Category Archives: design
More on “design tasks”
Following up on “design tasks”. Apparently a topic of great interest, because I can keep writing about it? Both @michaelbierut and @markboulton (two of my design heroes btw) have this belief in the portfolio. We’ve had over 60 candidates for our jobs. Very few people have portfolios that show what we need: digital product design […]
Talk notes: Dylan Field on the three product themes that the Figma team will focus on to improve Figma in 2021
- Posted in conference design figma
Dylan Field, CEO of Figma, talked about three product themes that the team will be focussing on to improve Figma in 2020. He talked about thi on stage at Figma’s first user conference Config, in San Francico, CA. In true Figma fashion, the presentation was mostly about features that are releasing either very soon or […]
Making of: Best of 2019
- Posted in design development interface javascript side-projects website workflow
Just like last year, I made a list of the best media I enjoyed over the year. This includes music, films, series and games. The structure is more or less the same as other years.The content might be interesting to some (as if there are not enough end of year lists already ;)), but for […]
Donkere patronen
- Posted in design interface nederlands
Kenneth Tits heeft het over een cookie banner die je laat wachten als je de cookies niet accepteert, en dit bij Proximus. Peter Fransen geeft als repliek een voorbeeld van VRT NWS waar ik mij ook al aan laten vangen heb. Dit zijn nu net twee overheidsbedrijven die voor mij het goede voorbeeld moeten geven. […]
CSS day 2019 – Part 1: UI special (2/2)
- Posted in conference css design
Continuing on from my first post about the first day of CSS day, here’s the second post which covers two more talks. The CSS day team already put up all the videos from CSS day on YouTube, so you can already watch all of the talks! Amazing. 1.5 Brad Frost – The technical side of […]
CSS day 2019 – Part 1: UI special (1/2)
- Posted in conference css design
I wrote so much about CSS day that I decided to split the content in multiple blog posts. I posted the intro yesterday. Now it’s time to get into the talks. CSS day is a 2 day conference. Day one was the “UI day” with a focus on design talks, often zooming in on the […]
Thoughts on SF Symbols
I was typing up a comment to Bramus’s blog post, but it got a bit long, so posting it as a blog post here. I saw the WWDC session on SF symbols – and it is great & interesting work. I am happy there is some standardization in iOS’s icons because things were going the […]
In between worlds
- Posted in accessibility design interface web
Accessibility has always been a topic that interested me. Writing standards-based HTML brings a baseline level of accessibility with it. But a lot of times the interfaces that we make are a bit more complex than what you can do with standard HTML. Consider this design for a search dropdown. As a UI designer with […]
Figma tutorials
- Posted in design
I wrote a few Figma tutorials last night. The original plan was to write a small tutorial but I ended up writing this huge thing in different parts. Here’s an organised list of links to the articles: Tutorial 1: Basic organisation Tutorial 2: Style overrides Tutorial 3: Component matching Tutorial 4: Working with multiple pages and global […]