Author Archives: Matt Walker

Core UI: The (Sometimes) Long and Winding Road

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In his “A List Apart” article Building Twitter Bootstrap, Mark explains that the core philosophy that guided their efforts was “Help awesome people do awesome stuff.” Empowering awesome people is a great thing, and we have a lot of awesome people. But for those awesome people whose job it is to build and maintain Desk.com, the path is sometimes winding. Inspired by what @mdo and @fat have achieved, we have a similar initiative to straighten that path out. We’re calling it Core UI, and it’s going to be a major improvement in the way we build our product. Continue reading