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A Sketch library I designed to help create beautiful sitemap templates, and user-flow diagrams for client and personal projects. Read more

Users face increasingly impossible challenges to prove they are not bots. Read more

AIGA Eye On Design article that describes how designers are falsely motivated to duplicate others’ work because of fear of failure and their desire to be accepted. Read more

The 20th Annual Logo Trend Report presented by LogoLounge is full of all the good, the badass, and the ugly. Read more

In May 2022 over 70,000 developers told Stack Overflow how they learn and level up, which tools they’re using, and what they want. The United States and United Kingdom respondents are the most experienced respondents, with an average of 15 and a half years of experience coding. Read more

The cost of hosting your website can quickly add up when you start putting things together; the server, the database, the domain, and the SSL certificate. All these components are needed to ensure your website runs correctly. But, did you know that you can actually host your website for free? Read more

With the early return pattern, you check for the opposite of the thing you want, and return early to end the function when that’s the case. Read more

After buying a new iPad not too long ago, I decided to get the Apple Pencil too to transition to taking notes digitally. I’ve attempted to go digital many times before but was always put off by the experience. Read more

I totally agree with this article. It’s all too easy for developers to reach for UI frameworks like Bootstrap with the hope of saving time, but it’s never the case. I’ve used a UI framework twice in my 20+ year career, and all it gave me was a headache and unnecessary website bloat. Read more

I was recently tasked with creating a filtered product comparison page for a client’s website and thought I’d take advantage of Shopify 2.0’s new filters option. Read more

With Shopify 2.0 came built-in metafield options, allowing additional data to be saved against products, variants, collections, and orders. The new metafields introduced a JSON field that would allow for all data types. Before this, we had to rely on third-party apps (which weren’t very good). Read more

A few years ago, I decided to scrap development environments from our workflow to make feature deployments easier. And since then, I’ve never gone back. Read more

A new year is upon us. 2021 seems to have flown by so quickly for me, which has been a good thing because it means I’ve kept busy with work and family life. Read more

While browsing through the discussions on the Shopify Community website, I came across a few posts from people requesting feedback on their new stores and felt inclined to offer some helpful advice. Read more

I’ve always avoided terms like “click here” or “click below” on any interactive element, and now that I’m doing more accessible design work, avoidance of these things is so important. This article by Stark explains why. Read more

This week, the Octagon Theatre in Bolton, the UK town where I was born and grew up, released a short documentary film produced way back in 2001. It features the untold story about my dad, Uttambhai Mistry, who arrived in the UK from Kenya in the late 1960s with practically nothing and made a life in Bolton. Here’s the interview… Read more

A great article about correctly using focus states to improve website accessability. Read more

I recently switched my website from using a .com.au domain to a .design instead. Here’s why. Read more

I’ve been working for myself for over 20 years now, and this is the first time that I have truly had the opportunity to set up my own office space at home. In the past I’ve rented office space which has always had its limitations - small room, sharing the floor with staff, open-plan office, not enough space for my stuff, etc. Read more

Drop caps have been used in printed media for a long time to add styling to the first letter of the first paragraph of piece of content. Read more