agile approach | The Anatomy of a Design Decision: Examiner’s 2012 Campaign Site
Samantha gives the rundown of a hands-on use of Style Tiles.
Mood boards in a content-first design process — Thomas Byttebier
How style tiles can work great in combination with content prototypes:
Surprisingly, it helps clients understand the HTML content prototype better. They now clearly see the difference and the relationship between content and design. In general it helps me explain the content-first process better and it helps them make more sense of it.
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Accessibility for Teams
I really, really like the way that this straightforward accessibility guide is subdivided by discipline. As Maya wrote in the blog post announcing its launch:
Each person on a team, whether you’re a manager, designer, or developer, has a role to play. Your responsibilities are different depending on your role. So that’s how we structured the guide, with a separate section for each of five roles:
- Product management
- Content design
- UX design
- Visual design
- Front-end development
Creating a pattern library in Sketch, Roobottom.com
A smart approach to creating patterns as symbols in Sketch. Sounds like diligence and vigilance is required to make it work, but then, that’s true of any pattern library.
Painting with Code : Airbnb Design
Very clever stuff here from Jon in the tradition of Bret Victor—alter Sketch files by directly manipulating code (React, in this case).
I’m not sure the particular use-case outlined here is going to apply much outside of AirBnB (just because the direction of code-to-Sketch feels inverted from most processes) but the underlying idea of treating visual design assets and code as two manifestations of the same process …that’s very powerful.
Where visual design fits in a process – Occasional writing from @rivalee
I think the distinction between ‘how it works’ and ‘how it looks’ is blurrier than we think.