386: Designing with Grid Systems
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Publication Date |
Feb 24, 2021
Episode Duration |
00:24:52

This week, we talk about designing with grid systems. In particular: when grid systems break, and what to do when they don’t align with our hardware screens perfectly. In The Sidebar, we talk all about design debt: how to work with it, pay it down, and eventually learn to accept it.


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  • Leigh LaMon
  • Edyta Niemyjska
  • Jaime
  • Brandon Hills
  • Jonathan De Wet
  • Guilherme Kaiser
  • Lillian Lin
  • Aris Acoba
  • Kyle Stuart
  • Hugo Tunius
  • Kish Patel
  • Michael Otto
  • Denis Zastanceanu
  • Kelvin O'Shea
  • Scott Underwood
  • Lachlan Campbell
  • Lucas VanGombos
  • Sam xia
  • Ravi Aujla
  • Brian Nelson

The Sidebar:

The Sidebar is an exclusive weekly segment for our Patreon supporters. You can subscribe starting at $1 per month for access to full episodes going forward! Sign up at https://patreon.com/designdetails.

In this week's Sidebar, we answer a listener question that can be ultimately paraphrased as: How do you deal with design debt?


Main Topic:

Joey Jungle asks on GitHub: Designing with grid systems? – and continues with many words asking why grid systems are often unintuitive, and don’t align neatly with our hardware screens. Great question!


Cool Things:

  • Brian shared the iA Quattro typeface, one of three beautiful (and free, open source!) typefaces from the iA team. It seems to be striking a happy middle ground between a sans and a mono, making it useful for adding a computer-y tone to an interface while staying readable.
  • Marshall shared Little Nightmares II, a beautiful (and scary) indie side-scroller. It looks gorgeous, and the sound design is incredible.

Design Details on the Web:


Byeee!

This week, we talk about designing with grid systems. In particular: when grid systems break, and what to do when they don’t align with our hardware screens perfectly. In The Sidebar, we talk all about design debt: how to work with it, pay it down, and eventually learn to accept it.

This week, we talk about designing with grid systems. In particular: when grid systems break, and what to do when they don’t align with our hardware screens perfectly. In The Sidebar, we talk all about design debt: how to work with it, pay it down, and eventually learn to accept it.


Golden Ratio Supporter:

A huge shoutout to Copilot, the best app for budgeting and tracking your personal finances. It’s our favorite tool for categorizing our spending, having our net worth available at a glance, and getting monthly (and yearly!) digests of all your spending.

Get the app at copilot.money.

Latest VIP Patrons:

  • Leigh LaMon
  • Edyta Niemyjska
  • Jaime
  • Brandon Hills
  • Jonathan De Wet
  • Guilherme Kaiser
  • Lillian Lin
  • Aris Acoba
  • Kyle Stuart
  • Hugo Tunius
  • Kish Patel
  • Michael Otto
  • Denis Zastanceanu
  • Kelvin O'Shea
  • Scott Underwood
  • Lachlan Campbell
  • Lucas VanGombos
  • Sam xia
  • Ravi Aujla
  • Brian Nelson

The Sidebar:

The Sidebar is an exclusive weekly segment for our Patreon supporters. You can subscribe starting at $1 per month for access to full episodes going forward! Sign up at https://patreon.com/designdetails.

In this week's Sidebar, we answer a listener question that can be ultimately paraphrased as: How do you deal with design debt?


Main Topic:

Joey Jungle asks on GitHub: Designing with grid systems? – and continues with many words asking why grid systems are often unintuitive, and don’t align neatly with our hardware screens. Great question!


Cool Things:

  • Brian shared the iA Quattro typeface, one of three beautiful (and free, open source!) typefaces from the iA team. It seems to be striking a happy middle ground between a sans and a mono, making it useful for adding a computer-y tone to an interface while staying readable.
  • Marshall shared Little Nightmares II, a beautiful (and scary) indie side-scroller. It looks gorgeous, and the sound design is incredible.

Design Details on the Web:


Byeee!

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