Notes from the studio floor.
What we learn on projects, written down while it's still fresh: process, design, code and the occasional rant about loading spinners.
Why our first designs are ugly on purpose
Rough cuts in the browser get better feedback than polished mockups. Here's how we make them and what clients say about them.
Process / Design
What it takes to ship every site at Lighthouse 100
The short list of rules that keep our launches fast, from fonts to images to the one script we always remove.
Engineering / Performance
Fixed sprints, fixed prices
Why we stopped billing by the hour, and how a two-week sprint with one price works for us and for clients.
Studio / Process
The Grid Sheet
One email a month with the new journal posts and one thing we learned. No tracking pixels.