Case Studies and Methods
A deep dive into how I like to work
How spreadsheets became one of my essential design tools
Be lazy: Photoshop, Figma, XD, and so many others let you pipe data directly into your layouts
How I use Luminosity to assess colour contrast
A cool trick I learned to quickly determine if there’s enough contrast in a screen design
A quick primer on why gradients suck sometimes
Eliminating the muddy grey/brown areas because conventional colour spaces aren’t perceptually uniform
Sizing icons to feel at home inline with text
My guidelines for setting the size of icons and emojis like glyphs of a typeface
How I set up notification badges in Figma to expand with more digits
One of my favourite, most satisfying ways to use auto-layout for tiny things