Category: design

Learn how a few foundational decisions set up design system spacing and grids.

After integrating Adobe CC Libraries into my design workflow it’s clear to me that its most powerful feature is the ability to store paragraph and character styles.

For years I wrestled with how to name and where to save my creative files. And then I came across “Designing Brand Identity” and my light bulb went off.

As I did more reading on design systems, I realized I need to think through some larger concepts and ideas.

It seems design systems have taken the web world by storm, so I thought I’d dive in and see what it’s all about.

An update on where I am with redesign my blog’s theme.

Check out the perfect sketch pad for me to take pencil to paper as I ideate on designs for brettro.com

As I rekindled my blog I realized its custom theme hadn’t been touched in nearly seven years so as I design and develop the new one I plan to document my decisions and the things I learn here.

My first instinct was to quash the emotions I had about Steve Jobs’ death because it seemed unnatural to be so moved by the death of someone I did not personally know. But then I realized that he had been present for over two-thirds of my life.