Stephen Hay
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website:https://www.the-haystack.com/
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on a stage with
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- Ethan Marcotteonce
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who talks about the same things
- Una Kravets45 talks
- Miriam E Suzanne15 talks
- Heydon Pickering11 talks
- Chen Hui Jing29 talks
- Jeremy Keith27 talks
- Roy Tomeij5 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| The Garden and The Treadmill | CSSDAY 2024 | 2024-06-06 |
Argues that designers can now sketch and iterate directly in CSS, showing concrete techniques: use grid template areas to "draw" layouts, combine has() and… | ||
| When Design Systems Lie | CSS Day 2022 | 2022-06-09 |
Says most design systems are actually glorified component libraries and that components alone are necessary but not sufficient; documentation and education sit… | ||
| I don't care what Airbnb is doing (and neither should you) | Frontend United 2019 | 2019-05-16 |
Title warns against copying Airbnb yet says more: stop choosing ready‑made UI and search for evidence about how a convention actually performs for this… | ||
| I Don't Care What Airbnb is Doing | beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2019 | 2019-05-13 |
Argues that copying Airbnb solves someone else’s problem not yours and pushes conventions over critical thinking. Recommends practical tools: keep a notes… | ||
| The Back(side) of the Class | CSS Day 2015 | 2015-06-12 |
Claims that class-based methodologies solve performance, coupling and maintenance get tested: expert numbers show problems appear only at 20,000 DOM elements… | ||
| Speaker Panel | CSS Day 2014 | 2014-06-04 |
A live Q&A lists concrete wins and roadblocks: shadow DOM isolates styles so scoped styles are less necessary; web components are shipping and used as the… | ||
| Flexbox | CSS Day 2013 | 2013-06-14 |
Concrete rules and demos show how flexbox distributes space: flex: 1 0 auto makes items start at auto size then share leftover space, flex-grow and flex-shrink… | ||
| The New Photoshop, Part 2: The Revenge of The Web | Mobilism 2013 | 2013-05-16 |
Argues that replacing dozens or hundreds of PSDs with browser mockups actually saves time and reduces revisions — cites a redesign that sat on 200 PSD files… | ||
| Responsive Design Workflow | Mobilism 2012 | 2012-05-10 |
Argues that old Photoshop-heavy handoffs slow projects and proposes a content-out workflow that starts with a content inventory, quick content-reference… | ||
| Meta Layout: a closer look at media queries | Mobilism 2011 | 2011-05-12 |
Walks through actual media query syntax and logical operators then shows which features matter for mobile—visual versus device viewports, the meta viewport… | ||
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