With the release of kanban-style project boards, we decided to move our open design process over to GitHub and give it a try.
GitHub recently released a set of new project-management features, including improved code-reviews and kanban-style “project” boards for prioritizing issues, and visualizing progress.
We’ve been using Pivotal Tracker for a long time now, and it works well for us, but we decided to try out GitHub Projects for our OddSite Open Design process.
My first impressions are mixed. There’s a lot to like about these new features, and the ability to organize issues – but the flow doesn’t feel well-integrated yet. We’ll write about the experience in more detail once we’ve had more time to live with it.
It’s important to focus the conversation
Beautiful design mockups can be distracting, giving a false sense of what is complete and what still needs to be done. At OddBird, we find it helpful to remove any ‘premature sheen’ before sharing mockups with clients.
Overflowing content, browser support, and polyfill updates
Anchor positioning is close to Baseline. As more people try it out, they are finding areas where it could be improved, and differences between browsers. Let’s take a look at the current state of anchor positioning.
We don’t have to choose between px and rem for spacing
There are many articles and established CSS best-practices that rely on determining the correct or best units to use. Now that comparison functions are well supported in CSS, we don’t have to choose.