Brad Frost is the web designer who created the mental model of Atomic Design. He’s a sought-after designer, speaker, and consultant about responsive design. His new book Atomic Design explains the concept of modular design as well as how to position it in a workflow for multi-device web developers.

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• Brad Frost
• Brad Frost on Twitter
• Brad Frost’s blog post on Atomic Design
• Dave Olsen on Non-Breaking Space Show #86 talking Pattern Lab
• Bootstrap
• Foundation
• Pattern Lab
• Brian Muenzenmeyer
• Lamp Stack
• Pattern Lab
• Tiffany & Co.
• Artifact Conference
• Shopify
• Brad on GitHub
• Atomic Design on Github
• DeployBot
• The book, Atomic Design, free online version
• Buy Brad’s Frost Atomic Design book
• Ron Popeil
• Owen Gregory

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• 3:10 Introduction
• 3:40 Brad describing Atomic Design
• 5:01 5 Distinct stages of UI
• 8:02 Organisms and hierarchy of a webpage
• 10:40 Introduction of pattern lab
• 12:30 Pattern lab is really plain, you have to bring your own vision, it’s a workspace
• 16:16 UI Auditing, consistency and patterns of website forms
• 18:02 How to introduce people to change and convince them that change is good
• 21:04 Communication with boss, don’t ask permission because boss only cares about end result
• 23:30 We’re already doing things like Pattern Lab - we just need to be more aware of it.
• 24:35 Don’t ask for permission, ask for forgiveness after.
• 27:01 Don’t need to go vertical for approval, talk with your colleagues
• 29:01 29:30 Example of how responsive experience works
• 30:03 Approval by way of conversion instead of convincing
• 31:30 Working without boss approval to make a bank site responsive
• 33:01 Page concept is out of date and from process standpoint doesn’t serve it’s use
• 34:20 Keep language the same, call it a webpage, but make website an ecosystem not a printed page
• 37:05 Keeping things above the fold
• 38:03 Using open source for writing the book and book deployment
• 41:45 Contributions to the book from others
• 45:19 How to find the book
• 48:15 Ending the interview with thanks