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Have you found yourself thinking: ‘how many times have I set this font size?’ If so, this post should help. Font size management is challenging, especially with responsive design. However, I’ve been using an ‘atomic’ approach with Sass which has made things easier.

Finding and settling on a way to use colour within your illustrations is a fun challenge. Once you do, it becomes much easier going forward to make your illustrations. In this post, I’ll share the things I have found worked for me.

Images play a large part in the reason why websites continue to grow in page size. While they don’t affect performance as much as JavaScript, they remain a burden on data and loading times. In this post I want to show you how to add lazy loading images as part of your workflow.

This year I took it at a slower pace with the articles. It was a challenging year, as I aimed to focus on things outside of writing. I posted very little and stopped towards the end of the year. Aside from the challenges, I was quite surprised to see the website continue to grow.

One of the things you may face with applying a stroke to an object in Illustrator, is which of the three alignments should you use? Each type has its own advantages and disadvantages, which this post will explore.

A common part of a website is the ability to search. Depending on how important search is to your website can define much of how it looks and how it’s prioritised in the design. In this post I want to show you how to create a search which appears with a smooth transition.

When designing there are techniques for applying colour, typography, spacing, you can rely upon regardless of the situation. These are things which add extra polish, and are generally hidden to the untrained eye.

When starting out on a new project or being newer to design, getting your ideas to be what you visualise can be difficult. Whether you’re new or are aiming to broaden your specialism you’ll find some things more challenging. In this post I’ll share some tips of how I approach these challenges.

In Illustrator it seems to be more difficult than it needs to be to export a colour palette to hex values. Using swatches gives you access to everything except hex. It’s tedious to go through the usual object, click fill, copy and paste routine. Here’s a way a way to do it quickly.

Patterns and textures were popular before flat design came along. However, as we seek the need for creativity, fun and uniqueness in our designs things like patterns reemerge. This post shares what I’ve learnt and how to make your own. There are some free ones for you to download inside too.

When using kerning or tracking on your type it can help with legibility or correct the way type looks for a specific situation. It’s important to understand the differences and when to use them.

2016 was the second year I’ve written a post every week. This post is a summary of what’s happened over the year and a look back at some of the goals I had.