Stacy Kvernmo

With over 15 years of experience, Stacy takes the lead at OddBird on interface design and development, architecting accessible and maintainable front-end code using a styleguide-first process. She enjoys experimenting with new design processes and tools as well as new web technologies like CSS Grid Layout. When she isn’t at her computer she is at the gymnastics gym training for her first gymnastics meet as an adult.

For more, keep up with Stacy at codepen.io/stacy or on Twitter as @stacykvernmo.

Presentations

UX Camp: Front-End Camp 2017

The Great State of Design with CSS Grid Layout & Friends

For far too long we’ve been forced to reuse layout patterns that have worked in the past, creating a web full of sites that all look the same. Lack of browser support, no true layout system, and designers who are forced to make safe decisions for budget or timeline reasons have led us to create work that is rarely creative nor inspiring.

I’ve spent years exploring how we can make the web a more unique space. Many CSS properties have been overlooked, but support has grown and many of these features are available now or can be used as enhancements. One of these new features is CSS Grid Layout, which will play a major role in layout design. Having a true, 2 dimensional grid will give our layouts much more flexibility and it is on us to explore the possibilities.