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Configuring Tailwind as a Design System
Well-crafted UI is your last defense against the coming slopwave of careless AI apps. Here’s how customizing Tailwind can save you time and design bugs so you can focus on the irrational amount of care good UI requires.
The difference between iteration and prototyping
Iteration and prototyping are not the same thing but they’re related over time during a build process. To determine which method you’re using, ask yourself are we trying to test a solution or are we trying to release a solution?
The matter of taste
When business hinges on the user experience and how products make people feel, success or failure is often a matter of taste. But only when one understands taste as intuitive knowhow, not subjective preference.
The instantaneous language of beauty
We rely on the pre-verbal language of aesthetics to sense our environment before we can think. We are naturally attuned to beauty because we innately know it represents a higher possibility of worthwhile information.
Creativity starts with love and theft
Making something new doesn’t happen by magic. An irresistible itch has to be scratched, love has to be found. An accidental essay about the missing triggers in the creative process, inspired by my years of collecting soul 45s.