Dave House's Avatar

Dave House

@iknowdavehouse.bsky.social

Design Systems | Aircooled VWs | Made a few records you don’t have https://www.das.house

364 Followers  |  140 Following  |  269 Posts  |  Joined: 24.07.2023  |  1.5905

Latest posts by iknowdavehouse.bsky.social on Bluesky

No worries I am doing this slightly second hand as only one of the team has dragon. I have a feeling we saw the same behaviour with no CSS - just didn’t like a label having anything in it span, strong, div whatever.

Will try and find a way to share

30.07.2025 15:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It was, now changed to be a separate element. But if you have any inline markup inside the label it won’t check. Seems like it has to plain text…

30.07.2025 14:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
A garage containing a VW beetle split into two halves with the body shell on its side

A garage containing a VW beetle split into two halves with the body shell on its side

I am currently in this state. Doing some small fixes to the channels.

I have certainly thought about driving the pan if I can hook up the wiring and fuel. Column is still in the shell, we trying to avoid removing it.

30.07.2025 11:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I appreciate this is pretty niche but have any of you web / a11y folk really dug into not being able to check a radio / checkbox with voice control e.g. dragon, if the label has any inline formatting… e.g. a span around a word etc

30.07.2025 09:05 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

If there is now Squid Game US would you not refer to them as the The Squid Games? Heh

18.07.2025 13:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’ve definitely seen this create accessibility issues. E.g. the designer marked up something and the developer followed it without question.

16.07.2025 12:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Or if the site has a 16px base but a 18px default body. I’ve seen this a lot with implementing the iOS font size on web is that as web tends to have bigger defaults the same increase you might have on app is too much.

Fascinating topic anyway - and great news!

10.07.2025 16:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Second guessing myself now, I guess I’m thinking more about some kind of inheritance problems - similar to if you use a design system library in a site that has specified a different base and all you components shrink…

10.07.2025 16:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

With the impact of root font size and the size of other elements - will there be a “site default” option?

It’d also be interesting to know how it might play with using the `-apple-system-body` and iOS font resize…

10.07.2025 13:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes that was a great one! For the measurement one I ended up buying the tape measure the fella recommended 😂

30.06.2025 18:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Have you listened to Hyperfixed? - Alex from Reply All. It’s a really fun twist on the “answer this question” format. I really like it

30.06.2025 16:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

K8 is Great

29.06.2025 16:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I still don’t understand TikTok. I have 10 followers but my last post has had 43k views in a day 🤷

26.06.2025 14:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But also, I want to work in Gov again so I’m sure they have some rules and reasons :)

25.06.2025 20:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Feel like the large or bold text rule is just too ambiguous to follow. It was made at a time when you could have like 5 fonts on the web.

Any system I’ve worked on since we say no text under 4.5 just because often it gets changed after the fact - like someone editing a CMS 6 months later…

25.06.2025 19:20 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@timpaul.co.uk your vibe?

24.06.2025 09:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Talk to me: Has anyone had any success with a schema approach to form journeys that could be integrated with different software platforms or user input types?

24.06.2025 09:51 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Just had the absolute brainwave to distribute the contents of a freezer not by type of food but based on cooking time.

10 min shelf
15 min shelf
20 min shelf
25 min shelf

Gotta have a kids dinner ready in 10… pick only from that shelf. Yeah

23.06.2025 15:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Middle aged norm core dad  wearing clear framed ray-ban glasses like he’s a creative director from 2021

Middle aged norm core dad wearing clear framed ray-ban glasses like he’s a creative director from 2021

New specs day!

18.06.2025 16:55 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Big fan of that place. They have a nice lunch menu - everything has garlic

17.06.2025 19:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Genuinely think frontend belongs in design. We had a few until last week when they were moved in a restructure. Even when it works, it doesn’t always “work” on paper.

16.06.2025 06:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I generally set my phone OS to dark but for some sites and apps I find their dark mode design choices too difficult to use (especially in some lighting conditions) so toggle back to light.

16.06.2025 06:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lanasil is the only thing that has worked for me

14.06.2025 20:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

66 - Afghan Whigs. Omg when the real drums come in proper half way through

13.06.2025 06:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Would you say design / tech is at a peak ideological crossroad?

10.06.2025 06:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We are going to see this everywhere and in many of those places “reduce transparency” won’t do anything.

10.06.2025 05:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As we’ve seen with Material, people tend to emulate the out of the box style for other platforms that do not have access to, or support the 3 contrast modes on Android.

10.06.2025 05:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Another Liquid Glass accessibility take you didn’t ask for. Is it the death nail for aligned cross platform UI? Is it another example of accessible only through user settings - with those settings only taking effect on the applications native to that device.

10.06.2025 05:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The revolution is just a t-shirt away

31.05.2025 20:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m calling the lawyers

28.05.2025 18:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@iknowdavehouse is following 20 prominent accounts