JSON Animations with Lottie
JSON Animations with Lottie The first time I came across Lottie it seemed like Voodoo or something. Here were tiny file sizes, smooth, extremely attractive animations, completely independent of resolution concerns: they were infinitely scalable because they used SVGs (Scalable Vector Graphics) for their images. How could this be? The first ones I found and […]
UX Year in Review 23
UX 23 State of the Industry I am a UI/UX Designer, Consultant, and Frontend Web Developer with over 23 years of experience working out of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Toolsets Used Figma Figma* Asana Adobe XD Wave Accessibility InVision App *I repeated this on purpose. Figma does everything, and I USED it for everything this year: […]
Deep Beneath the House of David 1 of 4
Part 2 of 4 – Israelites on the Road The Veldtman Cracker Factory In Chicago I worked at the Veldtman Cracker Factory for many years. Old man Veldtman was a self-made millionaire who’d built a fortune on his grandma’s soda cracker recipe and a nearly inhuman work schedule. He was sorely afraid of communism and […]
Deep Beneath the House of David 1 of 4
Part 1 of 4 – The Train from Chicago, Spring 1918 Spring in St. Joe The evening I pulled into St. Joseph station from Chicago a dreary rain was falling, driven off of the lake and smelling like spring. It was the fourth month of the year, 1918, and I had come to find my […]
Fonts, Webfonts, Licensing and the Web
Fonts, Webfonts, Licensing and the WWW Much has changed through the years since I was a young college student designing websites back at Ferris State University in the mid- to late nineties. Back then we generally built our websites in a non-wysiwyg HTML builder called PageMill, where all styling was done “inline”, or in the […]
Color Choice and Accessibility on the Web ’23
Color theory principles such as complementary colors, near complements, and the interplay different RGB colorspaces have with one another play a key role in validating web color choices. In the current environment of ADA Guidelines playing such a large role in web design, I find a tool like the WAVE accessibility evaluation tool to be […]
And then there was a new site
I do not, under any circumstances recommend the domain name registrar Register.com. And here is why. This is a story of a website lost, a website found. A website rescued and brought back from the very brink of the quick. This is the story of NateDuckworth.com 2000: Bring the Ruckus I first registered nathanduckworth.com in […]