Advocating for Clean Design and Front-end Development

I've been in the industry for over a decade now, and I have learned to embrace my professional passions. That's why I care strongly about new web layout, Contemporary Code and building up the developer and designer communities around me.

Latest Post

Build Trust on the Web incorporating User Worries with your User Stories

The web is suffering from a crisis of trust. Every week there’s a new story posted about a data breach or untrustworthy practices (I’m looking at you, Facebook). How can we fix that? When we create user stories for new features, shouldn’t we also create user worries about them?

Practical CSS Grid

You've heard about CSS Grid layout, but if you haven't gotten started with it, let me walk you through all its features in a simple, practical approach. By the end of this course, you'll understand Grid and have practical examples to put into production right away!

A few more posts

2019 The Year of Markup-First Development

The state of the web in 2018 has been heavy into the world of JavaScript. We've made amazing advancements in the way our sites work. Every site has the ability to feel like an application. Without HTML, though, our fancy future may have a dystopian layer right beneath the surface.

Refactoring CSS into a Sass mixin

It struck me recently as I was writing a new Sass mixin that there may be designers and developers out there that haven't translated vanilla CSS into a Sass function. In this article, I want to show how to take often-used CSS and convert it into a DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) Sass mixin.

Starting a new journey with Code Contemporary

I'm beginning my new journey as an independent creator. I've left the comfortable confines of agency life to see what I can do creating resources for designers and developers. I'll be writing, recording, speaking and consulting. Much of this will be under the heading of my new company Code Contemporary