CTO, UX / UI Designer & Developer
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Martine Dowden has degrees in both Psychology, and Design and Visual Communications, which she uses to develop amazing user experiences and user interfaces. She specializes in web accessibility, and has years of experience in leadership, marketing, design, and development. In addition to being the CTO of Andromeda, Martine is also an international conference speaker, a published author, is a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, Angular, and Firebase, and a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies.
Posts
Creating Custom List Styles
Bulleted lists on the web come with default styles. What if we wanted to use emojis instead of the boring standard bullet points? Let's take a look at how we would create that.Read More →
Styling Radio Buttons
Radio inputs are one of those input types that are notoriously difficult to style because we don't have a whole lot of control over the style of the native input. Let's explore 2 different pure CSS options we can take.Read More →
Light or Dark
Light or Dark mode, which one do you prefer? Or does it change based on device or situation? Let's delve into how to give our users the choice use CSSRead More →
Animating Drawing SVG Shapes and Paths
A cool effect is to make it look like an image or shape is being drawn on the page. This article walks through how to create this illusion in SVGs usiRead More →
Reactive Form Custom Validators
Exposing validation errors in a human-readable way guides the user when filling out and submitting forms, but when default implementations don't fit oRead More →
Testing Reactive Forms
Although part of most applications, a well designed, user friendly, testable form is still one of those things that is really hard to achieve. Let's lRead More →
The Importance of Using Language Attributes
Language attributes can not only help our User Experience but also our SEO. Let's explore the options and the benefits.Read More →
Tables Have Their Place
Tables being used for layout and difficult to contend with on mobile have resulted in their decreased use on the web. Using media queries we can use aRead More →
Fixing Misbehaving Floats
Sometimes, the best solution for a layout is to use CSS float, but what do we do when it misbehaves and we don’t want to use hacks like clearfix, or randomly inserted tags with clear=“both”? We can use display:flow-root. Let’s look at how it’s done.Read More →