Living in Sydney, I work as a design engineer at Canva by day. Otherwise, I’m just a human trying to make sense of the world. 🏳️🌈
Interested in #FrontEnd, #WebDev, #CSS, #a11y, #design, #DesignSystems, #WebStandards, #React, #TypeScript, #ProductDesign, #UX, #typography, #branding
Also interested in #FilmPhotography, #typewriters, #Sydney, #Australia, #Apple, #Mac, #MacOS, #iOS
| Website | https://sidney.me/?ref=Mastodon |
| Pronouns | he/they |
| Location | Gadigal Country (Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺) |
I had a lot of fun building these microinteractions and making my site feel at home on Apple platforms
I can’t count how much time I spent on this popover animation—it got me inspecting screen recordings frame by frame
It marked a great opportunity for me to give my writing a permanent home on my own domain, and have full control over how they’re presented
There are so many small details I sweated over—I wrote about a bunch of them and the overarching details of the design here:
This year, I (finally) redesigned my #PersonalWebsite:
sidney.me 🎉
It’s based on postcards: a design constraint that helped me make more thoughtful decisions about what I want to say, how to stay succinct, and how to do it graphically. They also focus attention and scale well to mobile
#WebDev
I’d been using the Arc browser daily since it was invite-only, so The Browser Company confirming it’s effectively dead still stings.
I really admired Arc for how thoughtful it was and how much craft went into it. So I wrote an obituary for my favourite browser:
There are minor difference but you have to look from close, and, mostly, you'd have to check under the hood.
The love and care we put into it from the start and the nerves of just sticking with the main idea and treating every new feature with maximum attention and care making sure the text stays in the foreground...
It is not common in an industry that sells with new features and generally follows the path of more and more stuff.
Oliver Reichenstein
