David A. Herron

Front-end developer @ OddBird since 2020

David (he/him) is a web designer, bird watcher, and photographer focused on performance, layouts, and accessibility.

David helps bring designs to life with modern tools. He’s passionate about pushing forward page layouts on the web while staying true to standards, and building a web that can be used by anyone, no matter their ability or device. A native Texan, he is now based in Stockholm, Sweden, where he spends time cycling, taking photographs, and watching birds.

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OddContrast

Color contrast checker with Oklch, Oklab, P3, and more

OddBird (owners) since 2022

OddContrast is a color format converter, featuring newer color formats like Oklch, Oklab, and the Display P3 color space. It’s also a color contrast checker to help designers meet WCAG 2 accessibility standards.

HTML & CSS Polyfills

Cascade Layers, CSS Anchor Positioning, Popover

OddBird (owners) since 2022

Along with our work for the W3C developing specifications for the CSS language, OddBird has started and maintains a number of powerful polyfills for new web platform features including Cascade Layers, CSS Anchor Positioning, and the Popover attribute.

Herman

Automated style guides

OddBird (owners) since 2015

Design systems streamline development, communication, and consistency – but often rely on dedicated teams and extended budgets. We wanted a tool that helps create and maintain living style guides & pattern libraries in an agile process, and on a budget. Herman helps you keep your development process simple – and your UX consistent – as you scale over time.

Accoutrement

Integrated design-system management in Sass

OddBird (owners) since 2014

OddBird’s Accoutrement tools help keep design tokens meaningful to both humans and machines – opening the door for automation, while improving readability. These tools also integrate with Herman, our automated pattern-library generator.

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Intuitive Web Design with OOUX

on Winging It episode 3 with Sondra, James, & David H on Oct 24 | 32 mins

During our conversation we look at 3 examples of unintuitive web design, and learn how to create websites and apps that are more intuitive using object-oriented user experience (OOUX) design strategies.

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Container Queries: a Quick Start Guide

Now is the time to begin experimenting with a long requested layout tool.

by David A. Herron on Apr 5

The @container query, that elusive feature developers have been requesting and proposing for years, has finally made its debut in a browser. Well, sort of. Here we’ll explain what container queries are, how they work, and what other features they might come with once fully supported in browsers.

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