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Table top photo a recreation of Whistler's mother using paint chips and a greeting card that says "pause for a moment"

Design musings, or how to think like a designer:

This blog is a post I shared with the Binti team August 16, 2023, with minor modifications for typos and clarification. In my role as Design Director at Binti, I believe that I am responsible for the public's "experience" of Binti. This means that, no matter

Respect the Past and Plan for the Future

The post is about how a new CISO, or any leader for that matter, can be more successful by spending time understanding the people around them and their decisions before they start plotting out immediate changes.

Typographic design featuring Binti's first value "Put the Child First"

Binti's Design Philosophy

Austin, Binti's Head of Design, shares the core philosophies of the design team. When the team has healthy debates and tension, we can point to the design and instead debate how this design reflects what we claim to value.

Top Tips for Translations

Tip 1: Don't use string interpolation with variables When there is copy that says something like The small blue dress is on sale! there is often an inclination to say, "Great! I'll code The ${size} ${color} ${product} is on sale!. There are two main problems

Why you should (probably) use CSS truncation instead of a JS truncation library

There are a few reasons you'd want to truncate a sentence, but the one I've run into most commonly is as a solution to "can you fit this copy into this area on a design"? For this use case, I've seen engineers

Jira Automated Release Tagging Process

Communication is a critical part of coding, from initial product requirements, to discussing alternatives and ideas around better solutions, but keeping everyone invested in a project up to date can be time consuming. Wherever possible, automating this process to keep everyone in the loop with minimal effort is ideal. As

Guest post: Binti’s Product Team on our Racial Justice Engagement Day

The registration page for our Engagement Day event, using the tool HopinWe at Binti care deeply about making the world a more fair place, and dedicate our work to enabling every child a fair chance at life. Most of us in Child Welfare are aware of the fact that there

How Binti’s Technical Teams Manifest Binti’s Values (Pt. 2 of 5)

Our Binti canvas, decorated with hand prints of folks in the companyNext up in our series of posts on how Binti's Product and Engineering teams use the company's values [https://binti.com/about/] to guide our work, we're focusing on the Binti value, Create

How Binti’s Technical Teams Manifest Binti’s Values (Pt. 1 of 5)

At Binti, we strive to hire whole people -- not just technical human resources. Like the rest of the company, our engineering and product teams serve Binti’s vision: to help every child have a family and a more fair chance at life by re-inventing the child welfare system. We’