Adrian Aleixandre

The twitter debate about "should designers code?" is meme-worthy topic, but I'd like to bring the discourse somewhere back to the middle. I believe that designers should understand the structure of the elements on the page, but not necessarily understand the details for how they get there. I believe the main skill in this is learning to "see the boxes". What I mean by this is to be able to look at a design and imagine all the elements inside of containing boxes. This fundamental skill can help…

I recently identified a common anti-pattern that plagues a lot of React code. This pattern starts off as innocent, as many anti-patterns do. This pattern seems like the simplest solution to the problem at hand but leads to the death of reusability by one-thousand paper-cuts. This pattern is props . Now before you get out the pitchforks, hear me out. Props are one of the handful of tools we have on our React tool-belt for passing around data. It is often taught that props are the way to get data…