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My personal thoughts on web design, web development, game design, and life.

7 June, 2017

CSS-In-JS And Styled-Components

With the rising popularity of JavaScript frontend frameworks, components have become the building blocks instead of HTML elements, and integrating maintainable CSS became even more convoluted. One solution that people turned to was CSS-In-JS.

12 March, 2017

Strong Opinions, Weakly Held

I discovered the quote “strong opinions, weakly held” recently and have been in love with it ever since. The quote might seem contradictory at first glance, but it actually makes perfect sense.

21 September, 2016

LucidCSS

I want to share with everyone my CSS style guide that I have been experimenting with and found great success with. I call it LucidCSS.

21 July, 2016

KenDevDesigns.com 2.0

Welcome to KenDevDesigns 2.0. I completely re-did this entire website, mostly for fun experimenting around with new technology, but also for a couple of tiny things that were bothering me.

24 June, 2016

Conditional Critical CSS

Conditional Critical CSS is an advanced method of improving page speed. It improves upon the original critical CSS technique by adding in conditionals using server side includes (SSI).

13 June, 2016

Typography Handbook

After 2 years of experimentation, 3 months of daily research, and lots and lots of editing, I finally finished Typography Handbook - a concise, referential guide on best web typographic practices.

6 May, 2016

What Is User Experience In Web Design?

User Experience, or UX, is a phrase that is often thrown around in the web industry. UX encompasses everything in web design.

24 April, 2016

Improving Communication With Clients

Communicating with clients is an essential part of the job as a designer. Communication is more than simply talking; it's about a mutual understanding of the situation.

23 March, 2016

Sass Material Color Palette

Color in material design is inspired by bold hues juxtaposed with muted environments, deep shadows, and bright highlights. Material takes cues from contemporary architecture, road signs, pavement marking tape, and athletic courts. Color should be unexpected and vibrant.

17 March, 2016

SEO Checklist

Concise and easy methods to give your website a competitive edge in search engine rankings

2 March, 2016

Responsive Web Design

In this day and age, a good website must not only look and function well on your computer, but it must look and function well across every single device.

1 March, 2016

Typography: Modular Scale

A systematic and mathematical way of assigning sizes to different HTML elements.

8 June, 2014

Level Design in World's Hardest Platformer 2

By manually making every single level ourselves, we were able to make sure that they were all high-quality.

18 May, 2014

Randomness in Competitive Multiplayer Games

What is the role of randomness in competitive multiplayer games and eSports? Is it a good thing or is it a bad thing?

21 April, 2014

Video Games: The Ultimate Storytelling Tool

Games are the ultimate medium for storytelling, and game designers should prioritize accordingly.

13 April, 2014

The Viral-Bandwagon Effect: Analysis of the “Exploding” Success of Video Game Titles

After months of going unnoticed, the game Flappy Bird suddenly and quickly soared up to the number 1 rank in both the App Store and the Play Store.

24 February, 2014

Lessons To Be Learned From Cookie Clicker

Cookie Clicker quickly went viral after its release and imprisoned the mind of all its users with its addictive nature.

19 November, 2013

World’s Hardest Platformer – The Collision Puzzle

My implementation of collision was very simple and worked perfectly for the most part for my game. However, upon testing, there was one perplexing issue with it.