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2026-11-12 Designing in public, iteration 4
2026-10-02 Designing in public, iteration 3
2026-09-29 Designing in public, iteration 2
2026-09-28 Designing in public, iteration 1
2022-01-06 The Text Method for determining visual hierarchy
2021-03-25 Not all design opinions are created equal
2021-03-05 Dates provide context
2021-03-01 Design review means asking questions
2021-02-24 Use workflow experimentation to challenge design choices
2021-02-21 Memento Mori
2019-09-20 Thinking vs Choosing
2018-01-30 Sketch and Destroy
2016-05-16 How I prepare data-merged designs for print using open source software
2016-01-05 Reality is messy
2015-12-23 Choosing between min-width and max-width media queries
2015-09-02 Put the “designers should code” debate to rest
2015-08-21 On diverse speaker lineups at conferences
2015-07-03 My name is Stephen, and I'm a generalist
2015-03-05 Conditional multi-column sublists
2015-02-17 (Visual) design influences interaction
2014-12-23 Some thoughts on “designing in the browser”
2014-08-04 Disarming loaded feedback
2014-03-21 Responsive Design Sameness
2013-10-26 Responsive Design Workflow Workshop in Berlin
2013-09-24 Another approach to responsive scrollable tables
2013-09-22 Carousel-Based Web Design
2013-06-04 Book Review: Peter Gasston's The Modern Web
2013-05-20 Update from The Haystack
2013-02-08 Say something nice (for a change)
2012-10-17 Nesting media queries
2012-07-09 Great Works of Fiction Presents: The Mobile Context
2012-06-01 Multi-column confusion
2012-01-04 Learn You a Flexbox for Great Good!
2011-12-19 OMG A Blog Post
2011-04-29 What about that new blogpost?
2011-02-22 It's okay to do adaptive layout. Really.
2011-02-21 Upcoming speaking engagements
2011-01-18 New HTML5 beer logo
2011-01-07 There is no Mobile Web
2010-12-17 Death to web services. Long live web services!
2010-10-18 New Flexbox tutorial on HTML5Rocks
2010-10-14 Fronteers 2010 recap
2010-10-05 Fronteers 2010 awaits
2010-10-04 On leaving Cinnamon
2010-08-27 Command line interlude
2010-08-07 Are flashy HTML5/CSS3 “demos” helping?
2010-07-08 The best summary of CSS selectors is closer than you think
2010-04-13 Cool tool: Opera Notes
2010-03-24 What constitutes a good website?
2010-03-22 Coping with CSS vendor prefixes
2010-03-13 What we can learn from the Defiant Dog
2010-02-14 It's my party and I'll write when I want to
2010-01-23 A gentle introduction to CSS3 Flexible Box Module (Part 1)
2010-01-16 Never Mind the Process, Here's the Finished Website
2010-01-09 2010: Let's get this party started
2009-11-09 Dutch translation of WCAG2 in public review
2009-11-05 Slides for my Fronteers 2009 presentation online
2009-10-06 Grip2009: a two-day workshop for web project leads
2009-07-30 Useful vim stuff: css_color.vim
2009-07-24 Designing this site, part 2: Values, goals and requirements
2009-07-16 Designing this site: prologue
2009-06-08 Livre (OpenMagazine) stops publication
2009-05-12 Fronteers Teachers Day 2009
2009-02-05 Paul Boag exposes web designer secrets
2009-02-02 Use Wordle to visualize client documents
2008-07-14 The Design Funnel: A Manifesto for Meaningful Design
2008-05-01 Personal publishing via web services
2008-04-22 Web logo design 3.0
2008-03-19 Web Guidelines at Zinformatie
2008-02-12 Create attractive (site) diagrams with Graphviz
2008-01-09 Logeion slides online
2007-11-24 Presentations in November
2007-11-19 Assorted links for 2007.11.19
2007-08-27 Assorted links for 2007.08.27
2007-08-11 Semantic markup and CSS frameworks
2007-08-08 Never talk to telemarketers again
2007-07-10 Is social networking the new stamp collecting?
2007-06-11 Effective but ethical internet vigilantism
2007-05-30 The importance of the 80/20 Principle
2007-05-29 Big companies and web standards
2007-05-20 Company X violates Cinnamon copyright
2007-05-12 The brainstorming dynamics of House
2007-04-29 Just Another Stupid Acronym (JASA)
2007-04-20 FOWD London 2007
2007-03-29 Blogging for money, designing for ads
2007-01-26 Cinnamon blog launched
2007-01-11 Don't miss out on all those tasty web apps
2006-12-14 Firebug
2006-11-15 Stay updated through our ass
2006-11-08 Documenting Photoshop comps with comment overlays
2006-07-31 The weirdest copycat ever
2006-07-31 When a client won't pay
2006-07-03 A word is worth a thousand… words
2006-06-19 Cinnamon does @media 2006
2006-05-31 Google Calendar/Maps mashup
2006-04-21 The Pitfalls of Photoshop Comps
2006-03-16 My two cents on rounded-corner markup
2006-03-03 Dutch Dossier Open Standards published
2006-03-03 Switching themes (again)
2006-03-01 When non-designers design
2006-02-08 Getting Smoogly
2005-08-12 Blogging's dark side
2005-08-12 Some clients just want the unattainable
2005-08-08 I love Joe Clark's blog
2005-08-01 Just do it, or it'll never get done.