The “Design-to-code” narrative represents converting design made in ideation tools into a coded format. Why is it a narrative? Because there is another narrative. The “design-as-code” narrative — Our narrative. Relate is a “design-as-code” environment that lets you ideate in the actual medium, the web. In other words, your design…

What is the missing link between a designer and a developer? Ready for it? I believe it’s plain good ol’ CSS! It’s the perfect “agreement” between the two camps, allowing designers to become directly responsible for the form and developers to take responsibility for functionality. It doesn’t mean one shouldn’t…

What’s Relate is the first interface design tool that empowers design and development teams to create digital products visually and straightforwardly. It outputs beautiful, semantic code and achieves the objective of creating a single source of truth for both design and development teams. It’s for teams to create interfaces that…

How much have design tools changed since the dawn of Xerox technologies in the 80s? Have the basic conventions shifted much? Let’s find out that and more. The guys at Xerox probably didn’t have the biggest idea of how far things would go when they came up with the laser…

I mean it. F*ck function, there, I said it again. Ok. I don't really mean it but stay with me, I got a point. Not only is beauty so disregarded in the age of digital design, I feel that the design community also misjudges it. I like to design pretty…

States of the artboard — Sketch Plugin — Don’t get me wrong… When I started using Sketch I was fascinated by artboards and symbols, they made a lot of sense and went great with my design process and it still does. Everything is controllable, I can reuse elements, design for different screen sizes, or design the entire flow…

When I had just started as a web designer, I already had some experience with front-end development. I wanted to take part in the entire process — from concept to design to actually solving world problems — and I wanted to code it on my own, as I could. Having…