My corner of the internet

Essays on web design, branding and the business of creativity — written slowly, published fortnightly, and always free.

The designers who reshaped the web

A look back at the practitioners whose layouts, type choices and wild experiments set the visual language we all design in today.

Advertising·6 min·Jul 27

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Why we design in the browser (and you should too)

Static mockups lie about the thing that matters most — how a page feels at every width, on every device, in motion. Here is our case for the canvas that tells the truth.

Creativity·12 min·Nov 22

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Nine things nobody told you about being a web designer

Nobody warns you that half the job is diplomacy, that taste is a muscle, or that your favourite font will betray you. Seasoned designers share the quiet truths.

Branding·7 min·Jul 27

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What your boss really wants from the website

Hint: it is not the carousel. Translating stakeholder wishes into pages that perform — a field guide for designers who present to the top floor.

Marketing·12 min·Jul 27

Hand-drawn website wireframe on a notebook

A short history of web design

From grey boxes to glassmorphism and back to brutal honesty — how thirty years of technical limits and rebellions produced the modern page.

Advertising·9 min·Jul 27

Two monitors on a wooden desk in a studio

Seven ways to make your website usable for everyone

Accessibility is not a checklist bolted on at launch — it is a set of small design decisions that make every visitor faster, calmer and more likely to stay.

Marketing·12 min·Jul 27

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Ten responsive websites worth studying

A curated shelf of sites that bend without breaking — fluid type, fearless grids and breakpoints you never notice. Bring a notebook.

Creativity·5 min·Nov 22

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Ten quick tips for keeping a blog

Eight years, four hundred essays, zero missed months. The unglamorous systems behind a consistent publishing habit — and how to build your own.

Marketing·7 min·Jul 27

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The worst web design advice we have ever heard

Above the fold is sacred. Never scroll. Make it pop. We collected the industry’s most repeated wisdom — and respectfully took it apart.

Advertising·4 min·Jul 27

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Seven tools every web designer should know

Not another list of apps — the seven durable capabilities underneath the software, from type inspection to performance budgets, that survive every rebrand.

Branding·9 min·Jul 27