Gaslight Blog
Want to read more about Design? Let's take a look-sy:
06/06/19
Creating Simple Layout Templates with CSS Grid
There is so much to love about CSS Grid and the various methods it provides for defining a layout. Of course, with great power comes sloppy front end code. It did not take me long to muck up a grid layout leaving my team members with a tangled mess of...
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05/06/19
Vertical Rhythm on the Web
Grids are a thing. They’ve been a thing. There’s nothing earth-shattering about designing on a grid. In fact, it’s so commonplace that there are, what feels like, an infinite number of tools available to make it easier to design on a grid—Bootstrap, Foundation, Bulma, among others. But there’s one thing...
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04/01/19
So You’re Building an Application With No Designer? Here's 3 Ways to Know the Usability is Suffering
Not long ago, my fellow designer Haley wrote an excellent blog post, “Design happens whether or not you value it - ignoring it can ruin your project”. She laid out a good explanation of what design is and argued why it matters. But understanding the importance of design within an...
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03/12/19
Shots, Rebounds, and Pizza: Gaslight’s first Dribbble Meetup
Gaslight has been the proud host of many a meetup over our decade in Cincinnati. We have started and/or hosted popular development groups like Cincy Js, Tech Cafeteria, and the Elixir Meetup. Now our designers are getting into the mix by hosting a quarterly Dribbble meetup. Never Heard of Dribbble?...
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03/05/19
Typography on the Web
Typography is so much more than picking a typeface, font size, and weight. People often think you just need to pick a pretty font and that’s it. But typography is an essential part of most designs. I started my career as a print designer and I quickly learned the importance...
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01/07/19
Why Can’t We Be Friends? 4 Benefits of Pairing Designers and Developers
Pairing at Gaslight Writing code, fixing bugs, and naming things is hard - true story! At Gaslight, one way we deal with these challenges is by practicing one of our core principles: better together. One of the more practical ways we see this philosophy used is through pairing: two developers...
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