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Twitter is a place I visit to get annoyed. I need an alternative. That alternative could be my very own website.

Creating something new will always attract attention, but there’s an under celebrated nobility in improving what already exists.

Blogging is a great way to showcase your expertise and raise your profile. But can you achieve this without drawing on manipulative methods of generating traffic?

Container queries are always a popular topic when discussing the future of responsive design. But do we actually need them any more?

The final part of my three-part essay based on the talk I gave at Smashing Conference. I look at how we might build components and consider their wider composition.

In this second part of my three-part essay based on the talk I gave at Smashing Conference, I propose a model for thinking about design systems.

I run my finger along the seam between interface patterns and design systems, exploring how a visual design language can underpin and inform a web style guide, with judicious use of CSS preprocessing. Like a good Christmas jumper, sometimes you need to get creative with the rules.

Because it uses logical values, Flexbox layouts will automatically align according to a document’s text-direction. Well, almost.

Justin Avery, who curates Responsive Design Weekly, asked me to revisit the four questions I answered as part of an interview series in 2013. Here are my answers.

Three years after the Web Aesthetic, comes my second article for A List Apart. Intended to inform a broader discussion about the principles that underline our work, I thought I would share some background as to how this article came about.

Just as blogging began to democratise publishing, social media arrived to undermine it.

Responsive web design changed everything about how we think and work on the web. Five years on, we’re still exploring the best ways to approach our practice. If we want a web that is truly universal, we must consider our users, our medium, and our teams in new, adaptable ways. Looking at where we’ve come from and where we’re going, I propose a philosophical framework for our work on the responsive web.

In what has become a familiar pattern, having decided to embark on a redesign last February, I then spent the following 18 months iterating and iterating. Now, after many missed deadlines, I have finally launched my new site.

I’m attending my second IndieWebCamp this weekend, with the sole aim of implementing webmentions. This has meant prematurely launching my new Jekyll-based website. That this has been in development since last February, many would say this moment is long overdue.

Earlier this month I attended UpFront Conference, an event organised by Dan Donald and other members of Manchester’s digital community.

I recently learnt about a security exploit that can occur when pages served over HTTPS use HTTP compression. Secure or fast, pick one?

I asked Jake Archibald a few questions about how he designed and developed his native-feeling SVG optimisation app.

Answers to questions about responsive design put to me by readers of net Magazine.

I perch my partridge in the CSS pear tree to discuss naming methodologies, ontologies and semantics. What’s in a name? That which we call a cherub by any other name would smell as sweet.

Last Friday I attended Responsive Day Out 2. While the format was the same as last year, the tenor was a little different. Gone were the theoretical presentations, instead speakers focused on the work; getting into the nitty-gritty.

For this month’s net magazine, Martin Cooper asked me to provide some thoughts on this question prompted by a recent exchange between Jeff Croft and Jeffrey Zeldman.

In this interview for Creative Bloq, I talk about web native design and how Saul Bass inspires my work.