I co-organize some popular conferences in Amsterdam with a few friends/colleagues. As the resident designer, I’m often tasked with making the name badges that everybody wears. I used to make these in Adobe InDesign, which has a mail merge function that, while kind of weird (I seemed to be required to use UTF-16 CSV files […]
Choosing between min-width and max-width media queries
I’m often asked a variation of the following question: Should I use min-width or max-width media queries? The obvious answer is, of course, “yes”. But you know what they’re asking: which of the two is better? Those for whom responsive design has become second nature might find it an odd question, and will know that […]
Put the “designers should code” debate to rest
Note (September 14, 2015): this post has also been translated into Chinese. My acting coach in college used to say something to the effect of, “Be. Don’t show.” It was frustrating. He wanted us not to do the things that symbolized what was supposed to be happening in the scene; he wanted us to live […]