1 July 2020music coding life designing
On Repeat - My most played albums for June 2020
Here's my list of music for June 2020 with Elbow being on repeat a lot; reminding me of walking through the streets of Manchester, and Elbow's own branded beer!
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I've finally given up with Sketch.Cloud!
I've been using Sketch for a few years now, and their free cloud offering was a very welcome addition. But, the last few months have been testing my patience and have been making me revisit the way I work with Sketch. So today, I finally gave in and signed up with Marvel.
30 June 2020web design
Link - The Return of the 90s Web
A nice little article about how some of the web design trends we all knew have come full circle, like having our own blogs on our personal websites, static websites and using WYSIWYG tools.
30 May 2020music coding life designing
On Repeat - My most played albums for May 2020
There hasn't been any new music that's caught my attention lately, so I've been listening to a lot of old albums this month. One of my particular favourites is "OK" by Talvin Singh which came out while I was at university...a very long time ago.
19 May 2020twitter
Six months without Twitter...so far, so good
It's been six months since I quit Twitter (and LinkedIn) and so far I've had no inclinations to go back. In fact, it's been refreshing, and stress-free not having to use twitter. I don't miss it at all.
16 May 2020design
Link - Dieter Rams’s ten principles for good design
All of Dieter Rams’s “Ten Principles for Good Design” are just as important today than when he said this back in the late 70's. He asked himself the key question "is my design good design?", which lead to his ten principles.
16 May 2020css responsive typography
Link - Youtube video: min(), max(), and clamp() are CSS magic!
I’ve used min() and max() in CSS many times, but I wasn’t aware of clamp(), which looks amazing for typography! This youtube video by Kevin Powell shows a great example of them in use.
13 May 2020freelancing survey business
Link - Covid-19 Effects on Freelancing: Global Survey (1,365 Freelancers)
I recently took part in a global survey by Hello Bonsai about the effects of Covid-19 on freelancers and independent designers/developers like myself. Here are the results.
12 May 2020shopify ecommerce web development
Shopify limits? What limits?
I recently read a blog post by Shopit Commerce about how Shopify limits its features based on their plans. It was a pointless post that focuses on the "issues" with using Shopify, in order to magnify their own offering. But, it made me think about all the good features Shopify does have.
2 May 2020shopify web design web development
Opening up possibilities with Shopify variants
Over the last few months, I've had the opportunity to work on a uniquely challenging Shopify project in which I had to create a "customise your product" section using only the options available in Shopify.