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Matthew Ström, designer-leader

I speak and write about design, front-end code, leadership, and (occasionally) math.

  • By Matthew Ström
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly three posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per year

Data for this chart is available in the table below
Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2015 4
2016 4
2017 4
2018 14
2019 21
2020 20
2021 4
2022 8
2023 3
2024 3

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

UI Density
Interfaces are becoming less dense. I’m usually one to be skeptical of nostalgia and “we liked it that way” bias, but comparing websites and applications of 2024 to their 2000s-era counterparts, the spreading out of …
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The polish paradox
Polish is a word that gets thrown out in conversations about craft, quality, and beauty. We talk about it at the end of the design process, before the work goes out the door: let’s polish …
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How to generate color palettes for design systems
It used to be easy to pick colors for design systems. Years ago, you could pick a handful of colors to match your brand’s ethos, or start with an off-the-shelf palette (remember flatuicolors.com?). Each hue …
On , 6,567 words