Bill Criswell

@crswll.dev

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UI Engineer "from Philly". https://github.com/crswll

Kramer from Seinfeld saying: "The Dewey Decimal System, what a scam that was. Boy, that Dewey guy really cleaned up on that deal".
Think of every characteristic of an interface you depend on to not ‘fail’ for your design to ‘work.’ Now imagine if these services were randomly ‘failing’ constantly during your design process. How might we design differently? How would our workflows and priorities change? Here’s a potential list of things we might be relying on CSS doesn't load JS fails to load CSS and JS fail to load Network speed Language / Variable content Left to Right text Presence of content (non-empty state) Length of data Data cleanliness Size of viewport Luminosity is low Ambient light is too bright Particular rendering engine :hover states Sight Mouse usage Business logic Permissions Plan level Quotas Network is online and transmitting data ...
The shoe from Who Framed Roger Rabbit being held over the Washington Reflecting Pool as if it's about to be dropped into The Dip.
BleeeglebleegAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
A bumper sticker with a picture of Kirk Van Houten that says "Keep Honking! I'm listening to Kirk Van Houten's 1996 Masterpiece 'Can I Borrow A Feeling?'"
Purr Monster and Frank chillin.
Butthead at a drive saying "I'd like to order a butt".
Divine
"A computer can never be held account. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision."
Ben aka Benjamin Puppins, a pup, being a stud.
Bubble Beeper Bubble Gum
Pair of skates.
Master Shake telling Meatwad "I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need this".
De-evoltion.
Beavis saying "Boingggg!"
Frank (dog) being a cool dude.
This is fine
Button having a padding but the padding goes away as the space becomes limited then the text truncates.
Goerge Before
Whitest Kids U' Know Sex Robot
I can't even imagine what the fuck this communicates to a screen reader.
A screenshot of facebook showing a baseboard sticker decal of a mouse in a hole holding a piece of cheese.
Please, no more insurance or antidepressants commercials. Only show me the latest in Super Soaker technology.
Sex Robot from Whitest Kids U' Know
Screenshot of Clerk's extras.
Screenshot showing Safari not utilitizing certain styles.
Strange GitHub loading Error.
Judge Judy judging Judily.
Mugatu saying "He's absolutely right".
A meme saying "Almost time to break out the 31 piece patio set" and there's a picture of 1 camping chair and a 30 pack of PBR.
Tom
David Lynch saying "People who like Twin Peaks are party people".
Johnny 5 saying "NEED MORE INPUT!!!"
A Facebook post of mine questioning if Surf Ninjas stole or paid homage to Surf Nazis Must Die with their similar covers.
Checkbox card with notch at top end.
me with a basket full of dinos I still walk around with
Fran's Labyrinth
aria-label highlighting (maybe?) an issue in Blueeye's HTML.
Offspring SMASH cassette insert.
Screenshot of Safari's "Develop" menu opened with `iPhone 16e (Simulator)` highlighted.
Dog, looming over my dinner, completion imminent.
Pink, green and black dumpster.
A screenshot showing I added alt text 69% of the time, 61% above average.
iOS screenshot where window isn't full screen so there's window controls blocking content.
The Arrogant Sons of Bitches album cover.
iOS screenshot
Screenshot of a bookmark in raindrop.io with a hashtag.
UI issue on page.
Coming Up... Gobblin Time!
A comic with a dog in 3 frames. The first frame he is happy with a frisbee asking "pls design system?". The second there's a hand reaching for the frisbee while the dog says angrily "NO design constraints" and the third frame he says "ONLY design system".
A screenshot of "Split View" in Chrome experiments.
Selfie with Purr Monster
A fortune cookie saying "no job is so simple it cannot be done wrong" with the text printed half way off the paper.
A screenshot of iOS 26 highlighting floating window management buttons in a PWA that's not full screen.
The iOS 26 menu Share menu with an option to "Use as Ringtone" for a webpage.
George, my dog, smiling at me.
Big Dom