I should have emphasized “pure CSS. The fastest and easiest way to accomplish this effect is using an SCSS preprocessor. It has the darken feature built in, which will take care of about 85% of your needs.

The meteoric rise and subsequent fall of GameStop dominated the recent news. The narrative being individual investors try to take on Hedge Funds. Which got me wondering, what even is a hedge fund?

I work at a financial media company… but as a web designer. So, I am no more qualified to talk about financial news than this person. So if you want an in-depth nuanced explanation of what happend with a lot of intimidating financial jargon, I strongly encourage you to read…

When it comes to your finances, who are your influences? My answer would depend upon when you are asking. I wish I could say my first financial advisor, but I found him shady and didn’t stay with him long. …

Empathy is a core skill for every designer. Displaying empathy for their users’ needs, wants, and behaviors lead to understanding. Understanding unlocks possibilities. Possibilities lead to better products and experiences tailored to users’ needs. The user group that Designers often ignore Ironically, a group that Design teams do not provide the same amount of understanding and empathy…

Working at The Motley Fool, a day doesn’t go by without reading about the best way to save or invest for retirement. …

I started building websites in the early nascent Internet days, the Netscape Navigator days. I was in college and seeking to learn more about building websites, but courses available at the time (this was the late 1990s), were all through the Computer Science department and were geared towards software development…

Back when I started, there was no UX or Product or Marketing, just Web Design. And we didn’t have boot camps; we had to bootstrap. There are so many more ways to learn design today. Here are a few of the best ones I know. The best ways to learn Design today Take a class online (at…

These are three topics that I can’t stop coming back to again and again and much of my reading, listening, and ruminating falls back into these questions. #1: What will happen next with AI? In 2007, I was at SXSW when Twitter was unveiled and adopted it early to share essential musings like getting BBQ for lunch…