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Handling links in Angular, buttons versus links, design system architecture, journey mapping

24 February 2019 - note, spa, process, design-systems, angular

Defining interaction design, scoping a rich text editor component, links inside SPAs, fudgability

17 February 2019 - note, spa, design-systems, process, forms

How to avoid optional form fields with branching questions

5 February 2019 - article, forms

Form design: when to use the number input

5 January 2019 - article, forms

Thinking differently about progressive enhancement

7 October 2018 - article, progressive-enhancement

Content is the user experience and what the deuce is content design?

1 July 2018 - article, content-design, process

Buttons shouldn't have a hand cursor part 2

14 April 2018 - article, forms

Progressive enhancement explained simply

1 April 2018 - article, progressive-enhancement

But sometimes buttons look like links

16 October 2017 - article, forms

4 steps to design fast experiences

28 July 2017 - article, performance

The problem with live validation and what to do instead

26 June 2017 - article, forms

The problem with float labels and what to do instead

24 May 2017 - article, forms

The problem with atomic CSS

16 April 2017 - article, css

Stop using device breakpoints

28 March 2017 - article, css, responsive-design

Universal design checklist

15 February 2017 - article

Don’t initialise Javascript automagically

6 December 2016 - article, javascript

Semantic class names: are you being too generic or too specific?

31 October 2016 - article, css, semantic-html

Browsers are different but so what?

1 September 2016 - article

Making view templates as dumb as possible

8 August 2016 - article

Buttons shouldn't have a hand cursor

15 July 2016 - article, forms

Always use a label

1 July 2016 - article, forms

The problem with placeholders and what to do instead

16 June 2016 - article, forms

How we cut our MVP in half to launch KIDLY

20 May 2016 - article

Everything I know about speaking at conferences

1 April 2016 - article, talks

Embracing simplicity

6 March 2016 - article, talks, forms

Design is not just how it looks

8 January 2016 - article

Hover menus are problematic

27 December 2015 - article, navigation

Why we stopped breaking down stories into tasks

15 December 2015 - article, process

7 reasons why infinite scrolling is a bad idea

24 November 2015 - article, navigation

The hidden cost of one bad design

14 November 2015 - article, forms