Designing in the browser, not in the mockup
A static picture of a website cannot tell you how it behaves at 320 pixels, in German, on a slow connection. So we stopped drawing them.
Journal
Working notes.
Short pieces about the parts of the job that are hard to see: translation, type, handover, and the screens nobody draws.
A type stack that survives translation
German runs about a third longer than English and breaks in different places. Here is the small set of rules we use so nothing collapses.
Notes on shipping a bilingual site
Write every page once, keep the translations in one catalogue, and never let a second language become a second website.