Hello! My name is Mike Mattner.

I’m a UI designer & developer from Michigan, currently working at AccuLynx as a Sr. UI Engineer.

I previously worked at an advertising agency as a digital designer and manager of creatives before switching to a UX/UI developer role.

In a former life I worked with the entire gamut of skills in what was once called digital media including video editing, motion graphics, interactive CDs, et cetera .

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Oct 28, 2023
It's 2023, here is why your web design sucks
Web design and development certainly wasn't taken seriously for a long time. I struggled with this career and how it was seen, but not for all of the same reasons as the original author.
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Oct 9, 2023
The Tailwind Divide
I don't want to claim to be anti-Tailwind, because I really do find utilitiy classes to be useful in some circumstances, but looking at the giant block of classes on Tailwind-based sites is mind numbing.
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Sep 30, 2023
Testing out Decap CMS
Hoping that Decap CMS works out ok so that I'm not constantly updating blog posts locally.
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Sep 1, 2023
A Redesign and an Update
Now that Vue 3 with the composition API is standard, and Nuxt 3 is stable, it became time for a total update and redesign—and it is happening largely in the open.
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Feb 8, 2022
Front of the Front End
So I think I fit into the front-of-the-front-end paradigm when it comes to my career.
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Feb 5, 2022
The End of Democracy is Unimaginable
It feels impossible, but the end of democratic norms looks probable within the decade.
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