Digital, User Experience,
and the Modern Web

May 1, 2020 | Luke Johnson

Four questions to help you upkeep and improve your website's content.

April 3, 2020 | Luke Johnson

The internet is brimming with web-based software. But here are some of the systems that have helped me stay organized.

March 27, 2020 | Luke Johnson

How to build structure and health into your days that will help you to live well and work productively through the many seasons of solo-work.

February 12, 2020 | Luke Johnson

Use what3words to change the way you navigate the world, and never again forget where you parked your car.

February 5, 2020 | Luke Johnson

A simple function to help you calculate time strings in human words.

January 31, 2020 | Luke Johnson

January 16, 2020 | Luke Johnson

You don’t need to be good at math. It doesn’t matter if you are young or old. All it takes is the willingness to keep trying.

January 10, 2020 | Luke Johnson

Take the work and worry out of photo storage by putting them on the cloud.

December 13, 2019 | Luke Johnson

The best way to design a good user experience is to think through the work a user needs to complete, and to automate whatever you can.

November 15, 2019 | Luke Johnson

The things we make are only ever as good as the bounds of our limited imaginations. Inviting people into the creation process will only ever make the final product stronger.

November 1, 2019 | Luke Johnson

A weekly practice to help keep you standing upon, and not buried beneath, the snowbank of your life.

October 10, 2019 | Luke Johnson

A fix for the jump-to-top behaviour when clicking on a Select2 select box.

August 14, 2019 | Luke Johnson

How to create content that will pave the way from your website to your church's front door.

July 3, 2019 | Luke Johnson

Impress your users with your empathetic ability to think through their experience of the tasks you ask them to perform.

June 23, 2019 | Luke Johnson

How to use PHP to access and work with another website's HTML.

May 10, 2019 | Luke Johnson

Say goodbye to the days of spurious email contacts, and hello to a new day of heel-clicking digital fun.

April 26, 2019 | Luke Johnson

Embed customizable maps into your website with Google Maps Javascript API in four (fairly) easy steps.

April 14, 2019 | Luke Johnson

No one has lived your life, no one else has your particular perspective, and no one else can speak from your unique experiences. Write the way you write. Write from what you know.

February 20, 2019 | Luke Johnson

Every once in a while, it’s important to pause and remember how you managed to get to where you are. This year marks my 10th year as a web developer.

January 14, 2019 | Luke Johnson

With so much of our lives conducted on the internet these days, why risk doing anything over an unsecured connection?

January 4, 2019 | Luke Johnson

Your email inbox doesn't need to be a endless pile of everything. Make your inbox work for you by sifting out noisy notifications and keeping only what is important.

December 18, 2018 | Luke Johnson

Hello, student. I’m writing to you because I love you, and because I want you to break free from the tyranny of failing computers and lost files. It happens. You’ve laboured all semester. Exam time is approaching. And then, in an all-too-predictable moment of frustration on the knife-edge of insanity, your computer refuses to start, and your entire semester’s work is gone.

November 19, 2018 | Luke Johnson

How Codigo and codigo.ca came to be my business's identity.

November 12, 2018 | Luke Johnson

With over 1,200 new domain extensions, you can think more creatively about your choice of domain names.

October 29, 2018 | Luke Johnson

October 23, 2018 | Luke Johnson

Make your voice heard in the textual hurricane of the modern web.

October 22, 2018 | Luke Johnson

October 18, 2018 | Luke Johnson

With some basic PHP, MySQL, and HTML

July 10, 2018 | Luke Johnson

Defrazzle your life's lines of communication by opening a new one.

April 9, 2018 | Luke Johnson

Everyone has their own work style, but the most important thing is to find systems that enable you to work freely and confidently.

October 6, 2017 | Luke Johnson

Google and Apple are on a mission to make the web easier to use by controlling how we experience ads, how we are tracked, and how we consume web content.

July 21, 2017 | Luke Johnson

July 8, 2017 | Luke Johnson

May 9, 2017 | Luke Johnson

The Internet is deeply integrated into our lives. We need to attend to cybersecurity simply because of how much of our lives are connected to cyberspace.

February 23, 2017 | Luke Johnson

As a church kid, I've always wanted to help church-governance teams work better. And now here's my chance.

July 19, 2016 | Luke Johnson

A friend recently interviewed me about what it takes to get into the web industry. In case it's helpful to anyone else considering a career in web development, here are my responses.

July 11, 2016 | Luke Johnson

Take advantage of the flexibility and opportunity afforded by the modern web. Be available to your audience wherever they are with a design that puts them first.

April 27, 2016 | Luke Johnson

No one knows your company’s processes like you do. Layers of commonly shared assumptions empower your team to work quickly and intuitively. However, if your team fails to translate these assumed processes for the customer, your customer might be in for a frustrating and flummoxing interaction.