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Project walkthrough: Agriculture Design System
Watch Jordan Overbye and Nathan Simpson outline the origins of our recent collaboration with the Australian Government’s Department of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry to implement a modern and accessible React Design System.
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How we built our website newsfeed
Here’s Tom Whitaker with an inside look at how we built the Thinkmill website news feed to surface material from a wide range of content types including articles, snippets, events, case studies, and more.
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Using CSS logical properties for internationalisation
We discuss the juiciest bits of an internal Slack conversation on design systems and logical properties. Served up with a dose of casual chat, two of our design systems experts – Joss Mackison and Luke Bennett – unpack best practices for the use of CSS logical properties for better internationalisation in design systems.
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Building a share text selection to Twitter feature in React
Medium has a feature that lets readers share selected article text straight to Twitter — without having to copy, paste and edit. It’s a cool way to support sharing without drawing the user too far away from their reading experience. But, that same nifty sharing feature isn’t available for all the great content on the internet.
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Inclusive user testing with browser-based prototypes
Last year, we partnered with the Queensland Government and Meld Studios to design a website that helps people find tools and information to improve their digital literacy. This was a great chance to apply our inclusive design skills and build a site that’s usable and accessible to as many people as possible.
· 4 min readProgressive Web Apps (PWAs): A stepping stone towards a native mobile application
Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are now a viable option for providing a mobile experience that meets users’ high expectations. This article provides an introduction to the history of PWAs for those new to the topic, as well as what can be expected from them in 2024. We also look at where PWAs sit in the mobile landscape and how they can be a practical stepping stone towards a native application experience in the future.
· 11 min readBuilding a Multi Brand Design System with Tailwind: Tips, Tricks and Tradeoffs
I recently wrapped up a project to help build a multi-brand design system. This article explores why we chose Tailwind CSS for styling and discusses the pros and cons of using it in this context.
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