Bento Break 14 – July 16, 2021

A fresh new Bento Break 14 is here. Come get your accessibility, art, and general news morsels and enjoy! WebAim Screen Reader survey 9 The latest results are in. Who’s using what where. Freedom Phone? I hope it lives up to the tracking-free hype. Lots of skeptics on this one. Your app isn’t special More […]

Web Captions 1 – History and Formats

​While compiling a video recently for my company’s design site, I was flagged for forgetting a web captions file. Being both an accessibility advocate and having never created one of these assets before, I did some research and manually crafted one for the minute-long piece. It was fascinating. It’s practically never talked about in the […]

Uncommon Design Tokens

If you’ve worked on design systems at all, more than likely you’ve heard of design tokens. If you haven’t heard of design tokens, they are the essence of what makes your system feel unique, often stored as variables in some sort of tech-agnostic format like JSON. Even this site uses a form of design tokens […]

Bento Break 11 – June 24, 2021

Bento Break 11 is here at last! Industry standards, CSS system colors, nice branding, and some artwork from me! I am a bit rusty, and it needed to be simple for embroidery. Used Affinity Design for the first time, and instantly fell in love with it. Very impressed, highly recommended. Top 1000 Sites’ Fonts The […]