The nervous developer’s hand hovers over the keyboard, code review glowing on three monitors. Ten minutes staring at the same function, a small change to the assessment module that’s supposed to ship tonight. Something feels wrong, but what is it?


The nervous developer’s hand hovers over the keyboard, code review glowing on three monitors. Ten minutes staring at the same function, a small change to the assessment module that’s supposed to ship tonight. Something feels wrong, but what is it?

Steve Arnold took to the front of the room faced with a packed house full of UXers on the edge of their seats.

Think about your design delivery process. When you provide designs to your development team on a feature, how smooth is the transition?

HTML5 is really powerful code, it’s the bones on which styling (skin) and functionality (muscles) rest. It is accessible out of the box.

I gave a talk last week about Using Code as a Design tool, and the feedback and discussions that came out of it were amazing. One great question I got, and had not considered, is how can a new designer use code as a design tool?