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Why designers should learn Flexbox while they're learning Figma.

However, I still teach a little HTML and CSS and treat them as building blocks akin to spelling and grammar. You cannot design for the web if you don’t understand how the web works.

28 days with Figma as my Primary Design Tool

In January of 2022 I wanted to freshen up my rusty art direction skills and design 28 beverage cans in 28 days. . Each day I would write a short creative brief or set some constraints about fonts, colors, or content. I would make a cursory statement on branding guidelines, and I would use only Figma as my primary design tool,

Why I'm Switching from Wordpress to Webflow

I’ve been building websites and teaching front-end development for the last fifteen years. For the first few years, I was pretty impressed with myself and my static HTML skills (and my table-based layouts). I didn’t really understand what a Content Management System was, but somewhere in the early twenty-tens, I realized that if I didn’t upgrade my skill set, I would rapidly become obsolete. Clients were asking for websites that they could update by themselves and I wanted to rise to that challenge.