Per Design

Mostly musings on design

Per Design

  • Design for the others

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    I think it’s pretty self-apparent that good design is accommodating of others, of allowing freedom of action and thought while providing well defined paths of usage, never requiring absolute adherence for the sake of ultimate control. Design that pushes or exerts unnecessary control is not, in the long run, good design and it will ultimately…

  • An Event Apart Seattle 2018

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    I’m back from the An Event Apart Conference which is really awesome – if you work in or around the web, you should go sometime. A great mix of speakers, great range of topics, and how cool is it to have dinner with Eric Meyer? This is the guy behind the famous CSS reference book…

  • CSS Grid: Thoughts on when to use auto-fill

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    Sara Soueiden has an excellent CSS-Tricks post on Auto-Sizing Columns in CSS Grid: `auto-fill` vs `auto-fit` where she covers the difference between the two. At the end she asks the question of what the design case would be to use auto-fill as, generally, auto-fit seems to be a better solution. Thinking on it, I came up with one design…