Toheeb Ògúnbíyi

Nigerian. Degree in Math, Diplomas in Networking, Self-taught in Web. A national award-winning web developer.

• Creator of True Web Design

  Introduced a system for well-structured and fully-responsive websites, to restore the web as readable, accessible, personalizable, machine-friendly documents while preserving strong visual design.

  Applicable to high-profile sites such as Stripe, Linear, Apple, Airbnb, and most other modern landing pages.

  Philosophy

  • Advocates proper document structure over style-first markup.

    Powered by a doc-first styleguide.

  • Extends Responsive Web Designpages must respond to device width, including other user preferences text size, typeface, color, and other document attributes..

    Powered by Container Queries over Media Queries for text responsiveness, OKLCH color for perceptual uniformity while theming, multi-class fonts for typeface flexibility.

  Case StudyTruing Netlify.com

  Recoded the Netlify landing page with the same visual design style, but made it well-structured and fully-responsive; to prove True Web Design in practice and pitch the approach as the next major step after the classic Responsive Web Design.

  • Unlocked font support, from one hardcoded typeface to unlimited selection.

  • Expand theme support by 99.72%, from two options to the full 722 options.

  • Made the primary layout more resilient to text scaling, in scores.

  • Fixed the reading flow in Reader View.

  • Restructured the document outline.

  Case Linktoheeb.com/web/case-netlify

  Project Linktoheeb.com/web/architecture