Journal

Notes from the studio on design, engineering and the craft in between.

A laptop and cables on a dark desk
  • Accessibility
  • Design

Dark mode is a design system, not a filter

Inverting colours gives you a dark page, not a dark design. What changes when you treat both themes as first-class citizens.

Mara Ellis

Laptop keys in warm light
  • Performance

Images, sized honestly

Most slow pages are slow because of pictures. The simple rules we follow for every image we ship.

Mara Ellis