It’s twenty four years to the day since A List Part published John Allsopp’s seminal treatise A Dao of Web Design. But all this time on, we’re still making the same mistakes.
Design has nothing to do with innovation and little to do with creativity. For the most part it’s there to help de-risk your business, but we tend not to talk about it like that.
As part of my forthcoming Patterns Day talk I decided to rebuild the newly redesigned Creative Boom article page using Utopian fluid typography to replace its multitude of breakpoints. This is the story of why and how.
Later this year I’ll be talking at Patterns Day. Jeremy asked me to weave responsive typography into his narrative of the day. How do I explain something as all-encompassing as typography within something so potentially granular as a design system?
The handling of widowed headings across pages in Apple Books is of particular concern. Since 1997, CSS has had properties to handle this, and yet browsers including Safari and Firefox still don’t support them – why not?