If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a fly on the wall at a CSS Working Group meeting, Richard has the inside scoop.
The consensus building is vital. Representatives from all the major browsers were in the room, collaborating closely by proposing ideas and sharing implementations. But most fundamentally they were agreeing together what should go in the specifications, because what goes in the specs is what gets built and ends up in the hands of users.
I’m soooo excited that Mandy is speaking at Ampersand here in Brighton in June!
Be there or be square.
I enjoyed chatting to Larry Botha on the Fixate On Code podcast—I hope you’ll enjoy hearing it.
Declan from MakerClub came by the office week and told us all about this great initiative for kids in Brighton that we’re supporting through the BrightSparks programme.
The gorgeous website for this year’s Ampersand conference might well be one of the first commercial uses of variable fonts in the wild. Here, Richard documents all the clever things Mark did to ensure good fallbacks for browsers that don’t yet support variable fonts.
Save the date! The best web typography conference in the world is back in Brighton on June 29th, and this time it’s at the best venue: The Duke Of York’s.
In fact, you can do more than saving the date: you can snap up a super early bird ticket for whopping £85 saving.
Boxman’s talk about complexity, reasoning, philosophy, and design is soooo good!
I spoke my brains on the Venturi’s Voice podcast. It’s a random walk through topics like sharing, writing, publishing, and bizzzzznis.
A profile of Clearleft from the nice people at InVision.
Although there is this:
@adactio looks like you are trying really hard to not crack up laughing & shoot coffee out of your nose in this posed photo. /cc @andybudd pic.twitter.com/WQbRmqqpY8
— Nick Finck (@nickf) November 7, 2017
Questions prompted by the Clearleft gathering in Norway to discuss AI.
I love what Ben is doing with this single-serving site (similar to my design principles collection)—it’s a collection of handy links and resources around voice UI:
Designing a voice interface? Here’s a useful list of lists: as many guiding principles as we could find, all in one place. List compiled and edited by Ben Sauer @bensauer.
BONUS ITEM: Have him run a voice workshop for you!
If you’ve never been to UX London, this short video communicates the flavour of the event nicely.
Ellen goes through the principles behind the tone of voice on the new Clearleft site:
- Our clients are the heroes and heroines, we facilitate their journey.
- Speak as an individual doing whatever it is you love. Expose lovable details.
- Use the imperative, kill the “-ing”.
- Be evocative and paint the picture. Show don’t tell.
- Be a practical friend.
- Be inquisitive. Ask smart questions that need solving.
An interview with Batesy that gives a nice insight into life at Clearleft.
He’s sketching mad, that one!
Danielle and Mark have been working flat out on Fractal. Here’s the roadmap they’re working to.
The video of Charlotte’s excellent pattern library talk that she presented yesterday in Berlin.
Benjamin’s retrospective on three years of volunteering at web conferences, some of them run by Clearleft.
Mark sets the scene for Fractal, the fantastic tool he’s built for generating pattern libraries.
This 1.0 release is just a start; it hopefully provides a solid foundation on which we (and anyone else who wants to contribute) can build and expand on in the future.
Exciting!
This is the tool that we use at Clearleft to generate pattern libraries. It’s pretty damn cool. Mark built it. It’s pretty damn cool.
