I'm Ahmad, a senior UX Designer and front-end engineer (AKA
design engineer, or a designer who codes, etc) known for fast,
creative problem-solving and solid CSS/layout systems.
I help teams ship modern, responsive, easy to use user interfaces
with speed and clarity.
I do design and build web and mobile experiences with a focus on the user needs.
husband, father, designer, developer, bug hunter, author, CSS magician, barista and educator.
I wear many hats. I'm a
Alma (4 yrs old) made the drawing around my head. ♥️
I wrote a book on
Debugging CSS isn’t only about adding an outline to all elements.
I wrote a book that will help you improve your debugging CSS skills and reduce the time you spend on bugs by showing proven methods and techniques.
♥️ Awesome people said awesome things about the book
CSS is sadly an increasingly undervalued tool for front end developers, in no small part because developers find debugging CSS challenging. Yet, until now there's been little in depth published on debugging CSS. Ahmad Shadeed's book is long overdue, and I can't recommend it highly enough for any front end developer.
Browser DevTools help us a ton these days in debugging CSS, but there isn’t exactly a step-by-step guide about it that I know of. This book leans into that, showing off how to debug really practical and understandable CSS issues with the help of DevTools when appropriate.
I help the community with
It's a term I coined that is about writing future-proof CSS to reduce broken UIs.
The most detailed guide on writing CSS for RTL layouts on the internet.
A corner where I share my cutting-edge CSS experiments.
The blueprint HTML and CSS for 17+ website headers.
