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We Create Custom Web Apps & Design Systems
We enjoy working with teams pursuing large-scale projects to plan, design, and develop tailor-made web applications and design systems. As industry experts, we’d love to help you improve team workflow, lower maintenance costs, and solve problems that help people.
Featured Clients
Adobe Fonts: Typographic Superpower Game
Google: CSS Language Development
Mozilla: Mozilla Developer Channel
Bremtown: Bremtown Cabinetry
Salesforce.org: MetaDeploy
Aunalytics: Workflow Builder
SRAM/Quarq: QuarqNet
Tegy: TimeDesigner
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Featured Posts
Winging It post typeGrid Lanes – The Future of Masonry Layout
This long-debated solution for masonry layout is now available and it’s time to figure out how to use it. Join us for a deep dive into the workings of Grid Lanes.
Winging It post typeSurprising Effects of CSS Shorthands
CSS properties come in two excellent flavors – longhand properties have a direct impact on the element, while shorthand properties take a much more convoluted path. There’s a lot going on when we use a shorthand property, with hidden surprises, and reasons we might use one or the other.
Link post typeColor Themes with Baseline CSS Features
So, you have a site that you want to build or redesign. Maybe you have a few core colors in mind, and you’re thinking about how to quickly implement a theme based on those colors. Baseline features can help!
OddBird became an extension of our team bringing UX, frontend, and backend brilliance to take MetaDeploy from an idea into a production application.
OddBird is a company I recommend without reservation. They are among the best in the world at front end, design systems, and w3c standards.
Other developers build exactly what you say, or they don’t understand, and develop the wrong thing. OddBird always thinks about the project goals. I defer to the team expertise now, which makes a better result.
Miriam is a fantastic speaker, with wonderful teaching skills, and highly praised by attendees of the conference and the workshop alike.
As core contributors to CSS, Sass, and Django, we write the books, help create the languages, and build the OSS projects millions of other developers rely on. Bringing that expertise to your custom web projects, we focus on accessibility, performance, resilient design systems, and well-tested code.
Full Range of Services:
- Branding & Logo Design
- User Research & Concepting
- UI/UX Design (OOUX)
- Python on the backend (Django, FastAPI)
- CSS & Sass on the frontend
- JavaScript (Svelte, Vue, React, Node, etc.)
- Design Systems & Component Libraries
- Accessible HTML
Open Source Contributions
Support open source tools »OddBird was the wise investment. We could have selected a cheaper avenue for this work – we would have paid for it manifold in the long run.
Since OddBird thinks about handoff from the beginning, maintenance has been super easy. For example, 100% unit test coverage was a given. I never had to ask for it.
Hi, I’m Miriam
I co-founded OddBird with my brothers in 2008 as a full-stack, boutique agency to provide custom web application design & development, along with refactors for integrated design systems, accessibility, performance, and long-term sustainability.
Since then OddBird has become an industry leader – from our work on Django, Sass, and Susy, to the CSS Working Group, Mozilla Developer Channel, Object Oriented UX, and in-depth conference talks on front-end architecture, workflow, component libraries, testing, and documentation.
We’d love to help you thoughtfully serve people with technology.