Office for the day: Amsterdam, preparing to give a tutorial tomorrow. This is my first time traveling outside of Switzerland (other than for family visits) since 2019.
Month: June 2022
Kayak Outing
Went out with our foldable kayak on our local lake this morning before it got too hot (we’re having a heat wave in Europe).
First SUP of 2022
Filled up the SUP and got it on the water for the first time this year. Paddled to the next village over on the lake to hear a concert and have dinner and then paddled back. Perfect Saturday evening.
AppDevCon
I’m excited to be attending and speaking at AppDevCon 2022 in Amsterdam.
On Thursday 23 June I give a half-day tutorial on engineering Design Systems and on Friday 24 June I present a conference talk on typography.
Engineering Design Systems
Format: half-day tutorial
Many companies are coming to realize the many benefits that design systems bring. A good design system (and its accompanying set of engineered components) can improve design quality and consistency and provide significant reduction in production times for both design and development teams. But how do you engineer the components depicted in the design system? In this talk we will learn how to consume design files and then engineer our own mini design system beginning with the foundations of color, spacing, and typography. We will use our foundations to create a few simple elements, and then we will assemble those into a card component, form fields, and finally a form. Along the way we will consider accessibility through the lens of dark mode, increased color contrast, landscape support, Dynamic Type, and bold text support.
Engineering Beautiful and Accessible Text
Format: conference talk
An integral part of design systems and style guides is typography. Typography declares how text will appear in your product by specifying the font family, size, weight, line height, etc. While much of our focus on design goes towards colors, icons, and images, text is the primary way users interact with the majority of apps. Learn how to implement typography in your apps in a way that is accurate to the source designs, fully accessible, and that makes assembling pixel perfect implementations of the source designs a breeze.
Tickets are still available.
Hit me up if you’re in Amsterdam as I will be there for 6 days / 5 nights.
Stanserhorn switchbacks
These switchbacks in the second half of the Stanserhorn hike were just brutal on a warm day: unrelentingly up with almost no shade.
Stanserhorn hike
Hiked the Stanserhorn yesterday: 10.1km, 1383m ascent, 3h:28m, 26°C, 🌤. Only my second time for this hike and it was a tough one (for me), but so beautiful; especially the final bit along the ridge.
Yes Sleep ‘Til Dub Dub
I’m personally planning on lots of sleep before WWDC.