dennis kardys

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Guess how many noodles are in this macaroni salad for a chance to win a pair of 3-Day VIP tickets to Riot Fest 2025!⁠ ⁠ Winner chosen Wednesday 7/9 and contacted directly.

Watch Bryce Johnson’s session "Devices + Accessories + Augmentations" from Leadership By Design 2024. Watch Now: chicagocamps.org/event-recordin…) Next up: UX Camp Fall on Nov 9 – Early Bird tickets just $7! 🎟️ Register Now (or speak!): chicagocamps.org/event/ux-camp-…

Doing a quick poll: Have you ever signed your work as the author of a stylesheet, in CSS comments? ...back in the first renaissance of CSS / front-end development

excellent (and mind-bending) article on fluid typography, accessibility, and using CSS clamp by Max Barvian. smashingmagazine.com/2023/11/addres…

Love the examples shared in this video. @markwshead —with the token experiment, systems thinking concepts, and the pit crews this may be my favorite of your Agile LnLs yet! youtube.com/watch?v=pttkBS…

Big shoutout to our Diagram thought leaders, @designwithpink and @dkardys for their exceptional talk on the #Umbraco panel today in Charlotte. They're not just part of the Umbraco community, they're helping shape it! @umbraco #umbracoexperts #umbracopartner #umbracoussummit

Posted some thoughts about salary parity and establishing Equitable Management Practices: link.medium.com/QhcZqdoVbyb

I got riled up by "10% off for IWD" sales in my inbox, so I wrote a thing. As a manager what are you actually doing to promote equity? With salaries? With hiring? wearediagram.com/blog/establish…

@allenholub I agree with this in the context of being a scrum master for a team of developers. I disagree that SM need to know to code within a cross functional team. Beneficial? Yes. But I would prioritize hiring for industry/domain knowledge and strong group facilitation skills.

Re. "non-technical" Scrum Masters or coaches. We programmers, to be effective, need to understand the domain we're working in. Why does anybody think they can be an effective SM/coach without understanding the domain they're working in: software development? Learn to code.

In our latest blog, @dkardys shows how we establish equitable management practices and how to influence change through actions, large and small, to reduce bias and discrimination. wearediagram.com/blog/establish… #IWD2023 #InternationalWomensDay

@karenmcgrane @tcarmody Congrats!!! 🎈😄❤️

I got married to @tcarmody tonight and now we're HOME and both sitting quietly and looking at the internet and it's perfect

@5t3ph Once there was a kids chess club called Chess Wizards. My colleague and I inspected the code. To our horror: <!--[if lte IE 8]> <style type="text/css"> * { display: none } </style> <![endif]--> Ever since that day we refer to this dark sorcery the #chesswizards technique

👻 What's your scariest CSS story? Try to make it scarier than "centering"

@5t3ph Long ago there was a man whose bones turned to dust trying to make a fluid box with rounded corners work in IE6 by positioning pixelated rounded-corner gifs into a series of nested span tags. Some say this is just an old-wives tale, but I saw it happen.

"The Empty Nest" is the first of the 5 UX Tales of Terror pieces of short fiction I've published. This one is about how nesting content in user interfaces can lead to your demise. @dkardys/ux-tales-of-terror-the-empty-nest-571e65e29c93?source=friends_link&sk=2b14124d98e4223dfa9d60d783200a48" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@dkardys/ux-ta…

Happy Halloween! Here's a playlist of dark and haunting songs that purposely AVOIDS the monster mash, thriller, and werewolves of london. open.spotify.com/playlist/2NUb3…

I just published UX Tales of Terror #5: The Carousel. You probably knew carousels were bad, but did you know they can lead to the loss of a loved one? #ux #ui #fable #Webdesign link.medium.com/Bx8LiI4swub

Thank you for this @_marcusherrmann! We were JUST talking about what it would take to keep our accessibility standards while also building more with Vue. 🙏

@dblizzy Perhaps the latter is key, though I don't believe apathy to be the root issue. It's more of an attention bias, where folks do not "see" the gaps between their (and others) areas of expertise, or the impact on one by the other.

@dkardys Good one. My gut wants to say including everyone in every conversation in every phase but that has its downsides, too. Then there’s motivating enough people to care about the whole enough, right?

Pt 1: A big challenge I see cross-functional teams struggle with is collective ownership of the quality of the WHOLE work being produced...

Pt 4: How do we encourage teams to see how the whole of what they make (the system) is as much the unowned relationship between the pieces as the individual pieces themselves?

Pt 3: In art school, our professors would advise to squint so that the details would blur and you would see the overall form and contrast.