Adam Morse. Designer Based in London.

Trying to make the web: fast, readable, & responsive.

Featured Projects

Compositor

Beautiful, Fast, & Simple GitHub Project Pages

Tachyons

Functional CSS Toolkit

Up & in Thirds

A collection of photographs

 

 

Gfffs

Hi-def gifs for the super-bored.

Gradients

Curated css background gradients

Colors

A better set of defaults for the web.

Writing

Css and Scalability

Reading a css file from start to finish will often times reveal in chronological order how a defined system breaks down…

The Veil of Ignorance

Let’s pretend you were instantly able to re-create American society in totality, and you could do it in whatever way you wanted. You could make (or eliminate) whatever laws you desired, and you could implement whatever financial and judicial structures you believed would work best. However, you must do this under a magical veil of ignorance…

Design Systems

While 5 and 10 are common units because we are (generally) born with ten digits on our hands - it seems more suitable to use 16 as a base measurement for this medium. Time in music is most commonly divided this way as well. 1/16, 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, and whole notes. These paralells are not a coincidence. Math and music are the sisters of design…

Too Many Tools and Frameworks

Theodore Sturgeon was a science fiction author, critic, and the basis for Kurt Vonnegut's recurring character Kilgore Trout. He was prolific, authoring over 200 pieces himself and critiquing around 400 others. His first piece came out in 1939 - a time in which science fiction was not widely respected within the field of literature. In 1958 he published a piece in Venture proclaiming what he called 'Sturgeon's Revelation…'

Webfonts

User-testing is an important part of the design process. It allows you to both hear what users have to say as well as observe how they use a product. It can help you separate your ego and desires from the problem solving at hand…

Web Design Process

1) Try to identify the problem that needs to be solved. 2) Do research. 3) Create some content…

What are Classes for?

For every property you add to a class, the less reusable it becomes…

Hack Design #51: Vim as a Design Tool

Touching the mouse is bad for productivity. Do it as little as possible or not at all…

Screencasts

Vim Project Setup

window management, saving sessions, opening files, saving files and more

Editing output from an external process with Vim

unix, :r, :!, visual-block mode, recording a macro

Fun with svg & Vim

registers, macros, :bufdo

Building an HSLA visualizer in under 5 minutes

visual-block mode, macros, ctrl-a

Responsive photo grid in 5:20

gulp, npm, grid, tachyons, visual block, :%s

Designing in the browser

gulp, npm, tachyons

Deleting an entire file in Vim

:%d, ggdG

Interviews

Type Thursday

Three Considerations to Make Your Typography More Accessible

Design Details

Lego Bits

Web Friends

The Authentic Adam Morse

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Vim as a Design Tool

Built with Compositor