Steven Lambert has over 7 years of industry experience and specializes in design systems, performance, and accessibility. On the side, he is a hobbyist game developer and freelance web developer.
The more inclusive you are to the needs of your users, the more accessible your design is. Let’s take a closer look at the different lenses of accessibility through which you can refine your designs.
Read more…
Web components are an amazing new feature of the web, allowing developers to define their own custom HTML elements. When combined with a style guide, web components can create a component API, which allows developers to stop copying and pasting code snippets and instead just use a DOM element.
By using the shadow DOM, we can encapsulate the web component and not have to worry about specificity wars with any other style sheet on the page. However, web components and style guides currently seem to be at odds with each other.
Read more…
Living style guides are an important tool for web development today, especially in large, complex web applications. Among many things, they help greatly help to organize and distill complex interfaces.
Read more…
