The Problem with “Ready for Dev”
Our tooling gets better every day, but by changing our mindset about how development and design can collaborate and contribute to each other’s work, we’ll deliver a better product to our users.
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Making AI Policies Usable
Crafting policies isn’t exactly the most exciting part of our jobs, but when it comes to using AI responsibly, having a solid, thoughtful policy in place is essential. The real challenge? Knowing when you’ve said enough… and when you need to provide more detail.
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Progressive Enhancement and Web Components
Now that web components have gained more traction over the last few years (used by companies like Salesforce, Github, and Adobe), we should explore how web components can offer progressive enhancement to applications without the bloat of JavaScript frameworks.
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UnConference: Beyond the React-ion
The modern web landscape is evolving fast. React continues to dominate, but is it always the right choice? The Sparkbox team recently hosted an UnConference to talk about web standards, progressive enhancement, and React’s role in the modern web ecosystem.
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Writing in Sync: Design System Content
Design systems help create a shared language within an organization, but without good documentation, no one will be able to speak that language.
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A Look at Digital Carbon Ratings
Our daily work as digital professionals has a measurable impact on the environment. Understanding digital carbon ratings can help you make your site more sustainable.
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The Accidental Design System
We never set out to build a design system for NCSBN. It started as a simple pattern library for a single website, nothing more. But over time, it took on a life of its own, growing and evolving until, before we knew it, we had something that resembled the beginnings of a design system.
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Help Shape Our Sustainable Web Project
Sparkbox is developing our own Website Carbon Calculator as a hands-on way to explore web sustainability and learn how to reduce digital carbon footprints. We’re asking for your input so we can create the most useful tool possible.
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Focusing Creativity
Bringing efficiency, quality, function, and innovation to a focal point.
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JSX Beyond React: An Intro to SolidJS
JSX makes building UIs easier, but not all frameworks handle it the same. Discover how React and SolidJS take different paths to rendering, state management, and performance.
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Want to talk about how we can work together?
Katie Jennings
Vice President of Business Development