When a client wants to add “holiday magic” with high-res winter desktop wallpapers, it often turns into a performance nightmare. Senior developer Ahmad Wael shares his trenches-tested approach to optimizing seasonal site assets without destroying your Core Web Vitals or LCP scores. Learn why 4K PNGs are the enemy of fast sites.
Stop fighting with rigid vector graphics. Ahmad Wael explains how to use SVG symbols and CSS media queries to build high-performance, Adaptive SVGs that look perfect on any screen. Learn the senior-level trick for managing complex illustrations without the performance bloat of duplicated assets or heavy JavaScript swaps.
Inheriting a messy CSS project with specificity issues is a developer’s nightmare. Ahmad Wael explains how to pragmatically integrate CSS Cascade Layers to de-tangle legacy code, handle !important inversions, and build a maintainable style architecture that stops the specificity wars once and for all.
A few months ago, a client came to me with a high-end WooCommerce build. They wanted “personality.” Specifically, they wanted the UI to feel alive—nothing…
I recently had a client come to me with a “branding emergency.” They wanted their new landing page to have that high-energy, classic 1950s Hanna-Barbera…
I recently inherited a WooCommerce project—a high-end fashion boutique—where the mobile experience was, frankly, a total nightmare. The previous dev had built a “bespoke” product…
I once had a client who saw a fancy “Who’s Online” widget on a high-end SaaS site and decided their WordPress team page needed that…
I recently had a client come to me with a high-end WooCommerce shop—bespoke furniture, very expensive stuff—and the site looked… well, it looked like every…
Stop treating AI as a black box. Senior dev Ahmad Wael shares practical advice on Explainable AI for UX, moving beyond data dumps to build user trust through progressive disclosure, feature importance, and human-readable explanations. Learn how to turn complex algorithmic outputs into actionable design patterns that improve adoption and reduce user frustration.
Stop fighting your developers. A sustainable design system culture isn’t about better documentation or strict linting; it’s about aligning team assumptions with technical reality. Learn how Ahmad Wael transformed a failed $50k design system by shifting from enforcement to integration, making the right design choices the easiest path for the dev team.