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Technocratic management, no matter how brilliant, cannot unwind structural inequalities.

This explains the niggling sense I have that micro frontends might be good for velocity but not for overall CX.

<blockquote>Easily stop background apps and updates from draining your Internet data and speed when you most need them, e.g. on hotspots or public Wi-Fi</blockquote>

How to split up your large, complex, frontend codebases into simple, composable, independently deliverable apps.

The reason I say IR35 is easily avoided is because…well, it is. A significant majority of contractor engagements legitimately fall outside of IR35, but risk being considered inside because of a fundamental lack of understanding of the rules by clients, agencies, and contractors alike.

The Pokémon games are full of stories like this: half-written, euphemistic, full of hints and easter eggs, and characters who allude to things that often never happen. For the first few hours of Pokémon Blue and Red, you are led to believe that a big plot with a Clefairy is about to kick off, and it simply never does. It creates a sense that you are living in a vast, complex world full of lost tales and broken people.

Working with our clients, we’ve seen teams prioritize their work using the Kano Model. They’re constantly monitoring their users’ current basic expectations, to make sure there’s nothing they’re missing. They are always on the lookout for inexpensive ways to add excitement generators. And they use the performance payoff to help understand how much delight they can generate with new features.

It’s with love that I beg you… please let Internet Explorer retire to the great bitbucket in the sky. It’s time. It’s been time for a long time.

How Soviet space tales help the creator of PostCSS to follow best practices in development.

<blockquote>A textile cover for your Sonos speaker.</blockquote>

Fluid typography is the idea that font-size (and perhaps other attributes of type, like line-height) change depending on the screen size (or perhaps container queries if we had them). The core trickery comes from viewport units.

<blockquote>Progression frameworks are tools that help us evaluate and pay our staff consistently, and help people understand how to progress in their work. We've put them here for everyone at Monzo (and anyone in the world!) to use.</blockquote>

“It’s very easy to recognise a blanket role-based assessment that doesn’t adhere to reasonable care,” comments ContractorCalculator CEO Dave Chaplin. “You ask yourself whether the individual has been assessed. If they haven’t, a proper assessment hasn’t been conducted and the reasonable care requirement therefore hasn’t been met.” The resulting consequences cause a whole host of problems in the supply chain.

It’s hard to pick a font size that is just right, especially as you try to adapt to different screens and scenarios. Looking at the recent history of how we got here can give us some perspective.

<blockquote>Build consistent, themeable React apps based on constraint-based design principles</blockquote>

Every Platform team should be asking themselves: what is our differentiator? What do we offer than makes it worthwhile for our company to invest in our team, rather than throwing those engineers at the product?

Create beautiful, accessible, and adaptive color systems using contrast-ratio based generated colors.

Over the past 25 years, Amazon has transformed itself. What began as an online bookseller has become one of the world's largest retailers. Beyond that, Amazon…

The state of things was surely overwhelming but it was also an important lesson; it’s impossible to judge the quality of a design system from looking at the ui. Just as a ship might look like the most beautiful vessel in the world (with the most intricate wooden carvings on the hull and the brightest, loveliest sails drifting peacefully in the breeze, etc. etc.), deep down in the hold however, the leaks might be too much to repair, the whole vessel creaking under the pressure of its own frame.

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Get up to date on some of the exciting features in modern CSS. Dec 5, 2019 Adam Argyle GitHub Glitch Una Kravets Twitter GitHub There are a ton of exciting…

<blockquote> * Spend more time really understanding the present and making it better than you do predicting or designing the future (the now is undervalued) * Leave things in a better state than you found them * Decentralise the decisions, centralise the vision and principles * Automate routine stuff, leave the complicated stuff to humans * Find (or create) and reinforce positive feedback loops * ~~Don’t worry about predicting the future, focus on understanding the present~~ * Make it safe to change your plans * Do the work to make the work work * Avoid creating bottlenecks, never be a gatekeeper * Avoid big, attention-seeking, resource hungry projects: find the little things with unnoticed potential that don’t need lots of energy - set a few of these going </blockquote>

Design Systems 12/16/19 by Shaun Bent Engineering Manager and Dog Dad by Gerrit Kaiser Senior Design Manager by Marina Posniak Principal UX Writer How we build…

There is a secret that needs to be understood in order to write good software documentation: there isn’t one thing called documentation, there are four. They…

News What contractors should ask recruitment agencies about IR35 reform Back in mid-November, we were a bit down to have to report that as many as one third of…

<blockquote>Workflow and QA automation for collaborative writing.</blockquote>

Colin Bendell 15 Dec ember 2019 Published in Code No comments You’ve seen it everywhere - that little thumbnail preview of a website mentioned in a tweet, the…

( This is the text of a keynote talk I just delivered at the IT Futures conference held by the University of Edinburgh Informatics centre today. NB: Some typos…

Over a decade ago, Burial came down to us, mapped a blueprint for a sound, and perfected it. But what followed his remarkable 2006 self-titled debut and the…

Mandy Michael 5 Dec ember 2019 Published in Code, Design No comments If you read Jason’s introductory article about variable fonts , you’ll understand the many…