A collection of tangents in written format: both professional and creative in subject matter.
When a new partnership begins, most teams rush to tasks, timelines, and tools. That's understandable. Work needs to start. But strong work doesn't begin with deliverables — it begins with people. • 2026 ◦ Process ◦ Leadership ◦ Design ◦ Engineering
Modern web development demands a proactive approach to security, and one of the most effective tools in our toolbox is a Content Security Policy (CSP). CSP helps mitigate a wide array of attacks, especially Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and data injection (“defacing”), by tightly controlling which resources can be loaded by your site. • 2025 ◦ Chromatic ◦ Security ◦ Engineering ◦ Drupal
In Drupal, it is often best to rely on core features or modules to do what you need. When it comes to Layout Builder block content and translating it, however, this becomes nearly impossible feat without translation automation. • 2025 ◦ Chromatic ◦ Engineering ◦ Drupal ◦ Regionalization
When you’re designing for a complex organization, it can sometimes feel difficult to distinguish where one project ends and another begins. If you are responsible for managing multiple subsidiaries, design and development standards must find a way to reach across the entire organization. • 2022 ◦ Co-authored with Michele Smolensky ◦ Chromatic ◦ Engineering
From facilitating consistent, error-free development to allowing companies to spin up new properties in a fraction of the time, design systems can be an incredibly impactful solution for organizations. But for all the ways they streamline digital publishing, design systems shouldn't be viewed as a one-and-done solution to resolve every organization's needs. • 2021 ◦ Co-authored with Lina Calin ◦ Chromatic ◦ Process ◦ Leadership
How designing with accessibility from the start can make your brand's digital experience stand out to all users. • 2021 ◦ Co-authored with Alfonso Gómez-Arzola ◦ Chromatic ◦ Engineering ◦ Accessibility ◦ Design
A summary recap of my talk at Webflow's inaugural No Code Conference in 2019. • 2019 ◦ Chromatic ◦ No-Code ◦ Design ◦ Leadership
The client, their aunt or cousin or grandmother, your neighbor's grandson who "always had an eye for these sort of things", and even you, a designer, are not as single individuals reliable resources for aesthetic. • 2018 ◦ Accessibility ◦ User Experience ◦ Design
Most designers and engineers are familiar with the concept of a grid system. In fact, most libraries come packed with their own grid system — take Bootstrap, for instance. In static comps, most engineers will find a disabled layer riddled with pink columns. • 2017 ◦ User Experience ◦ Design ◦ Typography
You don't need to know HTML or CSS or JavaScript to design in-medium. Here we give away our not-so-secret tools so that you can easily build responsive, interactive, in-medium user experience prototypes. • 2017 ◦ No-Code ◦ Design ◦ Leadership
Here are three major arenas we, as designers can consider to help touch environments be safer places for my fellow voluptuously-fingied brethren and I. • 2017 ◦ Accessibility ◦ User Experience ◦ Design
Inference in storytelling is an important element when developing a website. To infer is to solve a problem with our own internal resources. It's the closest we'll be getting to telepathy anytime soon. Inference allows us to understand a concept more so than if it were bottled, packaged, and delivered to us directly. And, better yet, originating a concept within your audience creates a bond spoon-feeding will never compare to. • 2016 ◦ Content Strategy ◦ User Experience ◦ Design
Of all foreign cultures to've been added to the massive couldron that is America culture itself, no country has reflected our society more than Sweden. Maybe it is the rolling fields of wheat, mild-tempered farmers, or even the love of simplistic Pop melodies. • 2010 ◦ Creative ◦ Culture
Pittsburgh is a city that has a unique relationship with its public parking spaces… and the chairs that bind them. • 2009 ◦ Creative ◦ Culture
A retrospective travelogue of my week in Stockholm. • 2007 ◦ Creative ◦ Travel ◦ Culture