Blog posts by Frank Stallone
Sharing actionable tips from my agency, enterprise, start up, and life experience with a design and developer twist.
A beginners guide to design reviews
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Discover how structured design reviews can transform your team's creative process. This guide explores the benefits of peer-driven critiques, from fostering collaboration to improving design quality, creating a culture of growth and innovation within your organization.
Faster websites with the Picture element
Sunday, April 7, 2024
How to create faster websites with the Picture element. Who cares though? Honestly, why even bother talking about performance? Sure there are studies that have shown that lack of performance has cost larger organizations tons of money, and images are the most popular resource type on the web, but does that matter to the user?
Create deep meaningful connections with personas and avatars
Saturday, December 9, 2023
Today I am going to talk about what personas and avatars are, why they can help focus your product, services or program goals, and how they can bring you more of the customers you love.
Tenets for prosperity - Part 2
Saturday, August 5, 2023
Today I am going to continue to share my tenets for prosperity. These are guiding principals I’ve collected and brought me success throughout the years.
Tenets for prosperity - Part 1
Saturday, July 29, 2023
Today I am going to talk about the tenets, or guiding principals, I have collected throughout the years and have brought me success in business and life. I have been fortunate enough to work on successful products and services for a range of markets from law to fintech...
Spacial computing for the web
Saturday, July 22, 2023
The world of Virtual Reality or VR goggles has existed for some time. Most of the recent devices have focused on gaming. Apple’s new Vision Pro mixed reality headset aims more squarely at getting things done, with a twist.
Transforming Communication: The power of presuming positive intent
Saturday, July 15, 2023
Today I am going to talk about one principal has stood out to me as being a cornerstone for leaders I have looked up to, has gotten me to diffuse tense situations and forge stronger relationships.
Designers who code, what is it good for?
Saturday, July 1, 2023
Today I am going to talk about designers who code. This starts with a little bit about who I am. I went to school for Graphic Design but had been designing and developing websites since I was 16. My first full website was a Dragonball Z fan site.
How much of a design system can you do in Figma?
Saturday, July 1, 2023
Today I am going to answer the question, “How much of a design system can you do in Figma?” The answer may be surprising.
Product Managers are eating UX roles
Saturday, June 24, 2023
Today I am going to talk about a shift I’ve been seeing in the design and product industries, and what it means for the UX design role.
Git concepts everyone should know
Saturday, June 17, 2023
Today I am going to teach you Git fundamentals everyone should know. Whether you are a designer, developer or product expert having a general understanding of how version controlling code works is easy.
What makes a timeless logo?
Saturday, June 10, 2023
There are two main types of logos, a logo mark, and logo type. Today I am going to show you how to spot good logos!
Unlock the potential of After-Action Reviews
Saturday, June 3, 2023
Learning and applying AARs in your product team could foster genuine trust, insightfully learn from mistakes, and figure out how to repeat unanticipated success.
Design systems that people love
Saturday, May 27, 2023
Design systems can increase productivity for an entire organization. It affords your product teams to focus on business objectives.
A beginners guide to digital accessibility
Saturday, May 20, 2023
In business, accessibility on the web and for digital devices, is a topic rife with ignorance. It’s also a fundamental civil rights law in many countries. Today we’re going to take a peak at the four principals the WCAG consider guidelines and success criteria.
UX vs. UI and industry expectations
Saturday, May 13, 2023
If you’re working on a web app or product, you’ve probably heard of the title UX designer, or user experience designer, and UI designer, or user interface designer.
The 3-step strategy that turned Brett Williams into the king of the design agency of one
Saturday, May 6, 2023
What is it about Brett William's Designjoy agency that has brought him millions in reocurring revenue? Does the agency model of yesterday still apply today?
🙅♂️ Whole network ad blocking
Monday, September 2, 2019
Advertisers are nosey, keep them out of your business.
👨🏻💻 Biggest tech blunder in a decade
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
What I learned from the biggest tech blunder in a decade.
📸 Try that expensive camera before you buy it
Friday, May 17, 2019
Before spending thousands of dollars, try out that camera and lens first.
Are you digitally secure?
Friday, December 16, 2016
A client recently asked me my thoughts about digitally security. What do I do, should they consider doing suggestions that were made by others.
Roly Poly Pils
Monday, April 11, 2016
Over the last few years I have taken a liking to a well balanced IPA.
Ignoring Files and Folders with Grunt Contrib Clean
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Bridging backend with frontend
Goodbye Google Play All Access, Spotify is here to stay!
Thursday, January 9, 2014
A continuation of a previous post on music streaming services, although I have given Google Play All Access enough time to try and compete with Spotify
Git Deployment Hooks
Thursday, September 26, 2013
A walkthrough of how to use git to make changes, test on Cert and finally push them to Prod. (LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell)
On Training People
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Presentation for Web Vis Solutions Support Teams to overview the new WordPress Backend and server workflows. (LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell)
Experience
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Walking to my 1995 Mercedes-Benz E320 the other day I noticed my fairly new exhaust system slightly off balance.
Gratifying Work
Friday, April 26, 2013
Lately I have been sitting down with a lot of product managers and leads from other web related departments.
Secretly excited over security
Monday, April 22, 2013
'I found the time to setup more security' - said no one ever.
Internet Explorer 10 and Adobe Flash
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Lately there has been a lot of buzz about what Microsoft is doing with Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8.
IMDb Watchlist
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
For years though I never thought I never became a member because I never thought of a use for having an account with IMDb.
CSS Resets, meet Normalize.css
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
My perspective of CSS Resets and Normalize.css from 2011
Thank you WP-Engine and WordCamp Philly
Sunday, November 6, 2011
WordCamp Philly, WP-Engine, and me being pathetic Don’t worry it’s not WP-Engine, nor WordCamp Philly which I just attended I am saying is pathetic, I am a passionate web designer and I am calling myself pathetic. Building custom web designs for small to medium sized law firms now for four years and it’s been over […]
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