Danielle and Mark have been working flat out on Fractal. Here’s the roadmap they’re working to.
It’s great to see former Clearlefties like Nat, Paul and Anna rightly getting namechecked in this history of designing for the web in a systemic way. It’s a tradition that continues to this day with projects like Utopia.
The video of Charlotte’s excellent pattern library talk that she presented yesterday in Berlin.
Jon gives some insight into how and why we use pattern portfolios as deliverables at Clearleft.
I love how easy it is to use these icons: you can copy and paste the SVG or even get it encoded as a data URL.
This is a superb way to deprecate a little JavaScript library. Now that you can just use HTML instead, the website for Pikaday has been turned into a guide to choosing the right design pattern for your needs. Bravo!
Pikaday is no longer a JavaScript date picker. Pikaday is now a friendly guide for front-end developers. I want to push developers away from the classic date picker entirely. Especially fat JavaScript libraries.
The front-end style guide for Code for America.
Naming custom elements, naming attributes, the single responsibility principle, and communicating across components.
Abstracting common interaction patterns as a starting point for accessible components.
Gotta keep ‘em separated.
A presentation at An Event Apart Boston 2018.