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resilient design on an infinite canvas

with practical use-cases, tooling, and pitfalls

with grids & custom properties

designing software for humans, with other humans

with grids & custom properties

with meaningful code and automation

We start by talking about design systems and design tooling – how they differ, and the problems they solve.

Pushing past the “variable” metaphor, CSS Custom Properties can provide new ways to balance context and isolation in our patterns and components.

designing software for humans, with other humans

designing software for humans, with other humans

with practical use-cases, tooling, and pitfalls

with grids & custom properties

Steve Jenkins interviews me about the state of CSS, and what’s coming next for the language – from Intrinsic Design to Dynamic CSS.

with practical use-cases, tooling, and pitfalls

with grids & custom properties

with grids & custom properties

Thunder Nerds interview me before her talk at VueConf US 2019.

designing software for humans, with other humans

it’s time to move past grid systems like Susy

it’s time to move past grid systems like Susy

The panel and the guest talk about grid systems, fonts, and more!

with grids & custom properties

with meaningful code and automation

with grids & custom properties

On Episode 18, the TalkScript team continues the live-ish at JSConfUS podcast series with guests Myles Borins, Tim Doherty, and Miriam Suzanne. Listen in!

with grids & custom properties

with grids & custom properties

it’s time to move past grid systems like Susy

designing software for humans, with other humans

designing software for humans, with other humans

with meaningful code and automation

designing software for humans, with other humans

with meaningful code and automation

with meaningful code and automation

it’s time to move past grid systems like Susy

it’s time to move past grid systems like Susy

it’s time to move past grid systems like Susy

it’s time to move past grid systems like Susy

Inspired by Robin Rendle, I demonstrate some of my early experiments combining CSS Grids and custom properties to create dynamic layouts and data-visualizations.

it’s time to move past grid systems like Susy

it’s time to move past grid systems like Susy

Viewport units have been around for several years now, with near-perfect support in the major browsers, but I keep finding new and exciting ways to use them. I thought it would be fun to review the basics, and then round-up some of my favorite use-cases.

It feels like CSS Grid has been coming for a long time now, but it just now seems to be reaching a point where folks are talking more and more about it and that it’s becoming something we should learning.

It’s been a month since our country pseudo-elected a bigoted blow-hard for president. I’m heading to DC to protest his inauguration in January, visit friends, and go on a mixed-media resistance tour…

No matter what acronym drives your selectors (BEM, OOCSS, SMACSS, ETC), loops can help keep your patterns more readable and maintainable, baking them directly into your code. We’ll take a look at what loops can do, and how to use them in the major CSS preprocessors.

Miriam Suzanne creates experimental experiences with her band and her fellow developers.

Chris Coyier interviews Miriam when she joins the CSS Tricks team as a Staff Writer. We talk about gettting started in the industry, name confusion, fouding OddBird, building Susy, and more.

In this episode of the Versioning Show, Tim and David are joined by Miriam Suzanne, best known for Susy, a responsive layout toolkit for Sass. They discuss going from being a lurker to finding your voice, the importance of writing about what you’re learning, stumbling into fame, approaching new projects, and unit testing in Sass.

Using Sass, you can write your stylesheets in a more concise, dynamic, and readable way, and cut down many of the repetitive tasks that come with writing vanilla CSS. This book provides a thorough introduction to Sass for the beginner.

Design systems streamline development, communication, and consistency – but often rely on dedicated teams and extended budgets. We wanted a tool that helps create and maintain living style guides & pattern libraries in an agile process, and on a budget. Herman helps you keep your development process simple – and your UX consistent – as you iterate on patterns and scale over time.

designing software for humans, with other humans

a case-study in building and sharing open-source Sass

a case-study in building and sharing open-source Sass

Popular CSS layout framework used by Virgin America, The Smithsonian, and others

Design systems must be meaningful to both humans and machines Accoutrement provides Sass design-token management that improves readability and consistency, while encouraging automation. These tools integrate with Herman, the OddBird pattern-library generator.

an introduction to the Susy layout toolkit

a case-study in building and sharing open-source Sass

an introduction to the Susy layout toolkit

a case-study in building and sharing open-source Sass

True is a full-featured unit-testing library for Sass. The core functionality is written in pure SassScript, so it can be used anywhere Sass is compiled. Advanced features are available with our test-runner integration and Mocha.

A novel about new love, moving apart, and what comes next. A love story, and an after-love story – told wiith poetry and pictures.

Susy is a lightweight grid-layout engine for Sass, designed to simplify and clarify responsive grid layouts without ever getting in your way. Originally released in 2009, Susy has become one of the most popular layout frameworks on the web.