Nordic Design

You should stop whatever you're doing and spend 15 minutes reading this piece by Catherynne M. Valente about why we are where we are right now. Don’t ever stop talking to each other. It’s what the internet is really and truly for. Talk to each [...]

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2009 was the last time I worked full time as a front-end developer, until late 2021 when I did another career change and got into it again. Holly Molly how things change in 13 years. Back then Javascript wasn’t even a requirement to do your job. [...]

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Last week we had to change a component at work that allows patients to choose their date for an appointment. Now people would be able to book quite some days in advance, so a calendar seemed the most logical approach for that UI. Creating a [...]

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I read somebody saying how a new generation of engineers willing to work longer and harder was displacing the old ones (guess old means anybody over 30). How this was happening now at Twitter and other companies. Simply a generation change. There’s [...]

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What’s the role of a front end developer? Seems pretty obvious, to build a site that people can use to access whatever a company provides, be that information, selling products, etc. But there’s another role front ends can do and it's bridging the [...]

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I did that mistake long ago, caring about story pointing and velocity. It was a new concept to learn and embrace, a new weapon to my increasing toolset. But after years you realise that who cares? Why should a team spend time getting more accurate [...]

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After many years working as a UX designer, I decided to transition back into frontend development. It hasn’t been an easy journey, but as many others have done before, I just got a job as a full time frontend. No mix designer mix pm mix something [...]

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You’re in a meeting and the boss says we’re going to redesign the website. Everybody nods as it’s so badly needed. High level plans are discussed and it's clear who’s going to do what and when.  You’ve been in those meetings. Everybody is really [...]

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Last Tuesday I attended InVision’s Design Systems workshop with Brad Frost, where he went through the steps of creation, delivery and maintenance of a design system. It was exciting to be surrounded by 100+ fellow designers and developers looking to [...]

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This site has been off for a week as I was changing its pants. Gone is Wordpress, tired of endless updates and constant worries about security (plus multiple times I had to deal with attacks).  Now I use Craft to serve the blog, a CMS I’ve used in [...]

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