Hi I'm Al. I'm a Product Designer, Developer, Writer and Photographer.
I currently live on the south coast of the UK, near Brighton.
I love to talk and blog about design, development, photography and how to do your best work.
Recent links and posts
- One way small SaaS products can approach growth
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An easing rule of thumb
Nice simple rules for choosing easing functions when animating on the web from Rach Smith. I have to think about this every time.
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The beauty of concrete
Love this long article explaining why buildings today are drab and simple, while buildings of the past were ornate and elaborately ornamented. A deep dive into craftsmanship and tooling.
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Planet of Lana
This cinematic side-scrolling game
looksis delightful ❤️ -
The 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good
Tuned into the 11ty conference and got re-inspired to sort out my website - added link-type posts and attempting to add webmentions. Such a great bunch of speakers covering some great topics, from IndieWeb to story telling and everything in between. For someone who likes to tinker with code on my website it was so good!
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Nice interactive homepage design from Webflow
I like how interactive the product demos are on the latest webflow homepage - really shows off the product. Even the carousel is done well with times animations. Really polished.
- ProductTank Brighton - A Product Manager's essential toolkit
- Controlling whitespace in 11ty with Nunjucks
- Reusing 11ty listing templates