Insights
Notes fromthe workbench.
Practical writing on the things we fix most often: slow storefronts, drifting design systems and accessibility bolted on a week before launch.
- Shopify
Why your Shopify store is slow, and what actually fixes it
Most Shopify speed problems are not the platform. They are apps, theme JavaScript and images. Here is how we diagnose a slow store and the order we fix things in.
7 min read
- Design systems
Design tokens for small teams: the minimum that works
You do not need a design ops department to benefit from tokens. A short set of decisions about colour, type and spacing keeps a site coherent as it grows.
5 min read
- Engineering
Accessibility is a build decision, not a launch checklist
The cheapest time to make a site accessible is while it is being designed. Here is how we build WCAG 2.2 conformance into the work rather than auditing it in at the end.
6 min read
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