design
[Interview] Meet Amanda: a Product Designer & Accessibility Advocate
April 11, 2023
Accessibility was front and center in my previous article, 3 things every product design team needs in 2023. People seem to be passionate about ensuring designs are accessible. There’s a lot of talk...
Product Design Project Readiness: Questions to Ask Before Kickoff
March 31, 2023
As experienced product design consultants who onboard everything from multi-year engagements to quick and dirty month-long projects, we know that no two design projects are alike.
✅ 3 Things Every Product Design Team Needs in 2023
March 13, 2023
There are some things you just have to prioritize for product design excellence. Retaining great talent and building incredible products in 2023 requires intentionality. But where should you focus...
Does Your Design Wiki Answer These Key Questions?
February 27, 2023
Product design projects involve many moving parts. Between design requirements, roadmaps, research findings, and design documentation, there’s a lot of information floating around.
What Is Design? Insights From Our Product Design Team
January 16, 2023
The Bitovi design team recently gathered for a retreat in Miami, FL. During our many discussions between flooded hotel beds and broken escape rooms (it was an eventful week), the question arose:...
The Form & Function of Product Design
July 18, 2022
Product design is a necessary part of the product development process. Although design might necessitate some level of creativity and an understanding of visual arts, design and art are not...
Use Flexbox to Create a Sticky Header & Sidebar with Flexible Content
March 10, 2022
The redesign of the CanJS website required a way to create a fixed header and a fixed flexible sidebar that adjusts its width based on its content. The main content container also needed to flex to...
How to Think About and Build Design Systems
March 9, 2022
Establishing a Design System improves the quality of a product for the people creating and maintaining it and offers the end-user a better experience. While building a Design System prior to creating...
Unlocking Sketch metadata: find symbols across files using sketchtool CLI, Bash, and JSON
July 12, 2021
Have you ever had the daunting task of checking whether developers coded a component (e.g., button, checkbox, alert) according to spec and needed to find ALL instances of that component in a huge...
Creating a design system with Storybook
May 10, 2021
Application + style guide = smart buy A recent project called for the creation of a single page site that would showcase a real estate agent’s expertise, sales history, professional connections, and...
8 Best Practices for Perfect CSS Documentation
In the world of CSS, documentation is underused. Since documentation is not visible to the end user, its value is often overlooked by clients. Also, if it’s your first time documenting code, it can be difficult...
Envato Tuts + Article
The Key to Building Large JavaScript Apps: The Modlet Workflow
You're a developer working on a "large JavaScript application" and you've noticed some issues on your project. New team members struggle to find where everything is located...
CSS-Tricks Article
Streaming Data with Fetch() and NDJSON
Streams are trickling into the scene as we search for ways to improve performance. What if instead of waiting for our entire ajax response to complete, we could start showing...
David Walsh Blog Article
Free Web App Checklist
We use a set of checklists to keep us on track and ensure reproducible quality on every project.
