How did a company acquisition feel like for a product designer
Business as usual? No.
Wednesday11/06
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Note to New Design Managers
A few things folks can benefit from when they take on this new responsibility.
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Fluid Everything Else
We can apply the concept of fluid typography to almost anything. We can have a layout that fluidly changes with the size of its parent container.
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State of CSS 2024
The 2024 edition of the annual survey about the latest trends in the CSS ecosystem.
Friday06/07
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The Hydrant Directory
A Public Domain design resource created from public infrastructure.
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CSS-only Custom Range Slider with Motion
@property + counters + anchoring + scroll-driven animations = 😍
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Tintin inspired away kit homage to cartoonist Hergé
New home kit for Belgian Red Devils and Red Flames.
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Fine-tuning Text Inputs
A quick overview of the attributes we can add to form fields to provide hints to the browser and improve the user experience for our visitors.
Thursday06/06
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Cara, the AI-Skeptical Artist Portfolio App, Skyrockets to 100,000s of Users
A new social media app wants to make a place for artists to share original work and closely monitor for AI creations, which are not allowed.
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Inspirational Websites Roundup #60
Discover our latest selection of websites featuring curated designs that keep you in sync with the newest trends.
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A modern approach to browser support
Just recently, some front-end code we delivered to a client was making its way through acceptance testing.
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Is Canva Getting Good?
Your auntie’s toy has the ambition to become a serious design tool.
Wednesday06/05
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Design System Retrospective
I’m in the middle of building another design system. Here's what I learned, decisions I regret, and what I’m doing differently this time.
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Beautiful, boring, and without soul
How do we make our digital gardens full of life?
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Designer engagement report
Top 3 problems for designers: no research, no design strategy, and no career progression.
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Sentient Design: AI and the Next Chapter of UX
Josh Clark introduces Sentient Design, the already-here future of intelligent interfaces and AI-mediated experiences.
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Teenage Engineering designed a museum exhibit
A photoessay of my visit to SFMOMA’s Art of Noise exhibit.
Tuesday06/04
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Anchor Links and How to Make Them Awesome
Anchor links (also called jump links) are an easy way to provide in-page navigation.
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Flat Planets
An exploration of creating planets to decorate a skybox.
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Promises From The Ground Up
The “Promises” API is a surprisingly tricky part of modern JavaScript.
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CSS Length Units
A comprehensive guide covering nine types of lengths that CSS uses to size elements in terms of dimensions, space, time, and even sound.
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How Git Works
If you’re still perplexed by git even though you’ve been using it for years, this zine is for you!
Monday06/03
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The Linear Method: Opinionated Software
How the Linear team builds products, and the principles and processes that guide their work
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Progressively Enhanced Popover Toggletips
The CSS Anchor Positioning specification enables us to position elements relative to an anchor, wherever they are in our web page.
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The popover drama
The popover drama started with a tweet about how a HEY Calendar popover loaded slowly on a throttled internet connection.
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Friday05/31
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Evolving from implicit intent to explicit design rules
It’s time to come to terms with what we’re actually doing when we design websites, native and web apps.
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State of Frontend 2024 survey
Share your opinions in this 10-minute survey about frontend development
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No, AI User Research is Not “Better Than Nothing”—It’s Much Worse
Synthetic insights are not research. They are the fastest path to destroy the margins on your product.
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In Praise Of The Basics
What does it mean to learn the “basics”, or fundamentals, of front-end web development?
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Analyzing my text messages with my ex-boyfriend
Facebook allows you to download all of the messages you've ever sent, ever, as JSON files.