Button School

One-sided borders with rounded corners

Button School — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A PSA for card designers everywhere.

Designing for the medium

Button School — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

You don’t need to code. But you should know the medium.

Spatial orientation on small screens

Button School — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Mobile screens are small, but the spaces they suggest are not. A visual reference to 5 common navigation patterns and the spatial mental models they create.

Designing like a UI engineer

Button School — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Why building a UI from a visual reference requires interpretation, not reproduction—and an 8-step process for thinking about it differently.

Come on in

Button School — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Non-engineers are already in our repos. It’s time to build environments that welcome them.

Relearning the basics

Button School — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Learning isn’t a feeling. Some advice from a teacher on staying sharp while working with robots.

Pretty much

Button School — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

“Make it pretty” goes deeper than you think. How a dismissive phrase became encoded in our tools, roles, and processes.

Codeplay

Button School — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Designers in our new coding course are making unexpectedly playful, exploratory work. Why?

Friendly mid-week reminder that design contains multitudes. Just because we do things in different ways, and make different choices, doesn’t mean we are trying to invalidate each others’ approaches.

Button School — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Go make things

Button School — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Advice and wishes for the wave of new makers building end-to-end products for the first time.

Skills I think matter most right now

Button School — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

You’re already reading one of them.

To code?

Button School — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Would you take the plunge into writing code with an LLM at your side?

Figma discontent

Button School — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Content should not be a second-class citizen in the world’s leading design tool.

Design starts earlier than you think

Button School — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Relationships, stakeholders, processes, responsibilities, and goals are all design materials.

Keep the change

Button School — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Change and progress are not synonymous. A reminder to interrogate where your excitement comes from.