Design1 min read
Designing for the eight-hundredth hour
Most interface advice optimises for the first five minutes. Here is what changes when your users live in the product all day.
Ines Marchetti ·
Journal
Notes on the craft
Things we have learned on real projects, written down so we do not have to learn them twice. No newsletter, no lead magnets.
Accessibility1 min read
The audit is not the work
Accessibility reports are easy to buy and easy to ignore. What actually moves a product to conformance is ranking, ownership and automation.
Lukas Berger ·
Design systems1 min read
Design tokens that survive a rebrand
Name tokens after their job, not their appearance — and other decisions you only get to make once.
Saoirse Byrne ·
Process1 min read
Estimating in ranges, and defending them
Single-number estimates are a promise nobody can keep. Ranges with named assumptions hold up much better under pressure.
Kenji Watanabe ·
Engineering1 min read
The hidden cost of a component fork
Every fork looks cheap on the day it is made. Here is what it actually costs over two years.
Daniel Okoro ·
Process1 min read
What we do in week one
A day-by-day account of a Nordwell discovery week, including the parts that are uncomfortable.
Ines Marchetti ·
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