👋 Hey, I'm Darin

• Currently working on

  • spacefarm!
  • an open source declarative design tool
  • an online publication covering yoga
  • a design system for a remote testing and certification platform
  • NDA
  • product improvement ideas on improved.design

• Passionate about

  • large scale design systems
  • content-driven design
  • responsive typography for screens
  • designing with code
  • microinteraction prototyping
  • atomic design concepts

• Trying to

  • transfer my React skills into production
  • get better at ES6
  • get more into advanced maths
  • improve my Terminal skills
  • get back to doing some illustration
  • learn VIM (?)

Writing

• Thoughts on accessibility

  I listened to the latest episode of Twenty Thousand Hertz earlier today. Like most things related to accessibility, it affected me in a way that might not be uncommon among product people.

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• Interface design tool wishlist

  This is a living document where I maintain a wishlist of things I’d like to have in a future product design tool. Since I originally wrote this, I’ve started working on a hacky design tool that covers some of the mentioned shortcomings.

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• Why Control Center in iOS 10 makes sense

  I’ve been using the developer previews of iOS 10 for a few months now and I’m really pleased with it. The updated design language feels more natural, tappable and super playful compared to the stark constraint of iOS 7. The overall usability score is definitely higher.

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• A reasonable hamburger menu replacement with Flexbox

  Hamburger menus are the prevalent way to access the majority of a site’s navigation these days. Last year, I believe it’s become clear that the hamburger is a subpar approach that screams desktop first.

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