Didrik Steen Hegna
Head of Design at Crystallize
Bio
With a 4 years formal education in digital design and 8 years and counting professional experience working with design and development, Didrik is a digital toolbox with a vast skillset including strategy, design, user experience, development, architecture and product management. A true unicorn
Blog Posts (3)
Kickstart Your React ecommerce Project with the Crystallize GraphQL Boilerplate
I remember the pain of starting my first Server Side Rendered (SSR) React GraphQL isomorphic fetch project (phew, a mouthful). Countless hours went into researching best practices, boilerplates, and how-tos. All of those hours were put into our React GraphQL based ecommerce boilerplate. To install our boilerplate check out: Getting started with Crystallize React components.
Content Modeling Using Figma Design System
A great content model is the best starting point when starting a new webshop, App, or marketing website. The content model serves as documentation and overview and connects information architects, designers, developers, and business stakeholders. We have created a design system in Figma for content modeling.
Simple Responsive Illustrations in Plain HTML
When using illustrations, infographics, or diagrams you would often like to use a simplified version for mobile devices vs a full desktop display. Using the picture tag and a simple media query you can easily do this in good old HTML. No JavaScript or CSS trickery is needed. The same technique can also be used to serve responsive images that are optimized for site speed.