Rob
McIntosh
Cover photo on home page featuring the current season in the great outdoors

This is what I do.

Morning in the Appalachians - 2017

Web Design

I aim to create experiences that look and function beautifully across anything that can access the web. My well rounded skillset covers web design, UX development and UI programming.

Writing

I write about responsive design, interactive development and more on my blog. I'm extremely passionate about the web and love talking about where the web is going.

Styleguides.io

Styleguides.io is a website that shares examples, tools, and resources about style guides and pattern libraries.

This Is Responsive

An extensive collection of patterns, modules and resources for various aspects of responsive web design. Compiled by Brad Frost.

Interconnected UI / UX Skills

An article about what versatile professionals brings to a businesss or corporation. There is of course overlap between projects, however, managers don’t always appreciate the varied inangibles and skill set UI / UX professionals possess.

WTF Mobile Web

WTF Mobile Web collects samples of what not to do when creating web experiences in this mobile age. Well thought out, intelligent responsive design and development is the way to go.

Planning For Performance

Excellent article on website requests from any device to a domain name server. The performance & usability bottlenecks that occur as a result. The more thought, consideration and planning that goes into designing and building responsive sites, the faster it downloads, resulting in higher rankings in search engines and major increases in user visits.

Building High Performance Websites

Too often, any talk of web performance quickly ventures into DNS lookups, cache, CDNs, Gzipping, minifying, caching as band-aids for large, cumbersome websites. Well designed high-performance websites are those that are conceived from scratch by professionals versed in multiple disclipines from design, UI development, programming to bandwidth management.

Frontend Design & UI Engineering

Front end and UI professionals understand UX principles, have a keen eye for aesthetics, can write specialized JavaScript and have a strong handle in backend development, but may not spend most of their time writing backend logic, spinning up servers, load testing, etc.


Hello and thanks for visiting my website and blog.

If you take a good in-depth look throughout this site and portfolio, you'll see my top-down web design and UI engineering skills throughout. This is a showcase of my broad array of expertise within different fields over the years, as a UX designer, as a UI developer and as a programmer (engineer). Check out my 'About' page here »