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- Flat Design, Reddit Rebrand, Oatly Ads, StyleX, Astro 4.0 — 2023-12-06
Designers might be at a crossroads with flat design and more detailed and three-dimensional design elements.
- 2024 Trends, WebMD Wrapped, ARETE, Readymag Awards, Lysterfield Lake — 2023-12-05
Interactive visualization of the history of the latin alphabet, showing the temporal and formal relationships of the different scripts and t…
- Overflow, HTML Hacks, No JavaScript, State of AI, Creative Playground — 2023-12-04
The overflow CSS property controls what happens when the stuff you put inside a box is bigger than the box itself.
- Open Source Compensation, One Year of ChatGPT, Reddit Rebrand, Document Cloud, State of UX — 2023-12-01
From design tools, to our design process, to the user behaviors that will change the way we design — a list of what to expect for UX in the…
- Annotation Kit, AuthKit, Marbla, CSS Hooks, Best Practices — 2023-11-30
Marbla is an experimental display typeface exploring the possibilities of variable fonts to change the mood and personality of a typeface.
- Brand Identity, Cookie Permissions, hanging-punctuation, Brickception, Designer Layoffs — 2023-11-29
In this article, Sasha guides you through crucial processes and factors to achieve a consistent brand presence across platforms.
- Prompt Structure, Stochastic Parrot, DALL·E Party, CSS Ribbons, Inter 4.0 — 2023-11-28
Most prompts contain a combination of the following components: request, framing context, format specification.
- State of JS 2023, CSS in 2023, Ocean Photographer, Design Ethics, Emailspiration — 2023-11-27
We’re living in somewhat of a CSS renaissance with new features, techniques, experiments, and ideas coming at us.
- Rive, Braille vs. Boston Line Type, New Google Maps, Stable Video Diffusion, Total Design — 2023-11-24
Rive reduces the time it takes to make complex animation, making some motion items easier and faster to build.
- NYT Audio App, Future of Jamstack, CSS Nesting, Zara UX, Color Palette — 2023-11-23
A borderline unusable user experience, littered with bugs and full of missed opportunities. Dive into a UX case study on Zara.
- Changing Role, Climate Report Cover, Master Printer, Storefront Design, Container Queries — 2023-11-22
As more companies work to integrate AI into new and existing software, high-level interaction patterns are emerging.
- Best Inventions, Width and Height, AI Models, CSS Grid, Trending Design — 2023-11-22
As more companies work to integrate AI into new and existing software, high-level interaction patterns are emerging.
- Vectorizer, Web Components, Light DOM, David Attenborough AI, Landscape Photography — 2023-11-20
As my experience with web components grows, my personal view of how to build a web component is also evolving.
- F37 Typeface Collection, DevTools Killer, AI-Generated Images, Web Showcase, Draw My UI — 2023-11-17
No doubt you won’t have failed to notice how AI (artificial intelligence) is proliferating in almost every area of our lives.
- Art Direction vs AI, Microinteractions, Doing Strategy, Individualism & Collectivism, Selectlist — 2023-11-16
Modern interfaces are about much more than functionality. They must be user-friendly, intuitive, and enjoyable.
- Art Books, IBM Selectric, Shaders, Text Zoom, Web Design Documentation — 2023-11-15
Artist monographs, surveys, and historical reflections to prove that art really does make the world a better place.
- HTML Web Components, Map Pathfinding, text-wrap, Wilco Font, Figma Plugins — 2023-11-14
I was looking into text-wrap and doing some research on the difference between when to use “balance” and when to use “pretty”.
- Accessible Animations, CSS Math, Reality Check, prefers-reduced-transparency, Color of the Year — 2023-11-13
We refactor the design of Hrvoje Kraljevic’s “Furniture e-commerce website” and build it, step-by-step.
- State of the Designer, Manifesto, Comedy Wildlife, Understanding Accessibility, CSS Selectors — 2023-11-10
I don’t see people using the gap property for flexbox out in the wild all that often, but it’s pretty cool!
- Gap, Dataviz Fonts, Design and Engineering, Celebrate Kindness, Monaspace — 2023-11-10
I don’t see people using the gap property for flexbox out in the wild all that often, but it’s pretty cool!
- Fluid Type, FigJam AI, OpenAI Keynote, Midjourney vs Humans, Buttons.cool — 2023-11-08
The CSS clamp() function is often paired with viewport units for “fluid” font sizing that scales the text up and down at different viewport…
- Punchcards, Changing Colors, New Job, AI for UX, Scroll-Driven Animations — 2023-11-07
In the fall of 1976 I started as a Freshman at SUNY Stony Brook intending to major in Math and Computer Science.
- Minimalist Affordances, CSS Gradients, Vectorpea, Privacy Icon, Future London — 2023-11-06
Unfortunately, sometimes usability and aesthetics can be at odds, also known as “form over function”.
- Design Breakdown, Apple Keynote, CSS Functions, Modern CSS, Pavement — 2023-11-03
Apple goes behind the scenes of Scary Fast, a special event unveiling the all-new MacBook Pro family and iMac.
- Nintendo Ads, Disney 100, SEO Experts, Top 100 Websites, Polypane 16 — 2023-11-02
A ton of improvements to common workflows, updates to the meta panel social media previews, support for @scope, Chromium 118 and more.
- Reinvent the Wheel, Shapeshifting Ceramics, Design Manager, Devon Rodriguez, Design Tools Survey — 2023-11-01
Malene Hartmann Rasmussen’s enigmatic ceramics draw from personal memories, nostalgia, and ancient customs.
- Web Components, Bigger Browser, Not Next.js, State of React, Safe AI — 2023-10-30
If we’re building things that we want to work in five or ten or even 20 years, we need to avoid dependencies.
- State of Brand, ASH, text-wrap: pretty, Horizontal Rules, View Transition — 2023-10-27
A Pokedex, but real, helping a new generation of Ecology Guardians discover the magical world of nature.
- Internet Artifacts, Snackbar, Web Designers, Personalization, Writing Systems — 2023-10-26
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- Frédérick Raynal, Papercraft Houses, Rule of Tincture, Design Fonts, Naming Variables — 2023-10-25
Frédérick Raynal is best known for creating Alone in the Dark, a game which single-handedly invented the survival horror genre.
- Fascinated by Letters, Liberty Logo, Path Animation, Google Maps x Houdini, Facebook Identity — 2023-10-24
CSS loaders and progress indicators are some of the most widely used examples in tutorials and documentation.
- Avatars, Three Cs, State Transfer, CARI, Gaslighting — 2023-10-23
CARI, or Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute, is an online community dedicated to developing a visual lexicon of consumer ephemera.
- Web Sustainability, Storybook 7.5, $1 Million Website, Responsive Video, Material Web — 2023-10-20
Next. js improvements, enhanced Angular support, and 2.
- Add Friction, Small World, GSAP, Variable Fonts, Taiwan Population — 2023-10-19
Most people will tell you that you need to remove friction in your product’s onboarding. They are wrong.
- Tokyo Dome City, Hovercraft, Accessibility Blogs, Shift Happens, Transition Animations — 2023-10-18
Tokyo design studio &Form developed a font that varies dramatically in thickness and motion behaviour with type designer Toshi Omagari.
- New CSS, Mobile-First Design, Photoshop Web CSS, Game+Logo, Romance Novels — 2023-10-17
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- Fintech Typefaces, Design Collaboration, Space Type Generator, iiisometric, UXPin — 2023-10-16
Fintech products are systems that are overloaded by many types of data like numerals, texts, spreadsheets, and so on.
- Frasier Remake, Vocabulary Inflation, Space OS, External Links, Rounded Corners — 2023-10-13
More than 130 animators, filmmakers, and Frasier fans from 11 different countries have remade the Seattle psychiatrist’s most meta episode.
- Factory Workers, Older Adults, Visual Design, AI vs Designer, HelloFresh — 2023-10-12
As we’re frantically pushing towards an auto-governed future, we ought to stop and think about our purpose as designers.
- Flexoki, Light Paintings, Persuasive Design, AI Vector Graphics, Greenwashing — 2023-10-11
Peeking out from rocky gorges and flowing through a thin crack in the terrain, Reuben Wu’s drone paths conjure the uncanny.
- CSS Low-Poly, Table of Contents, Mirage, light-dark, X Preview — 2023-10-10
- Webflow Redesign, Patreon Redesign, CSS Nesting, 10 Principles, Photo Softness — 2023-10-09
CSS nesting is great, but should be used with caution. As a rule, if a selector will work without being nested, don’t nest it.
- How to AI, Project Stardust, Interop 2024, Image Placeholders, Web Photoshop — 2023-10-06
Bringing Photoshop to the web represents an enormous milestone in bringing highly complex and graphically intensive software to the browser.
- AI Wallpapers, Framing Effect, Footer Gallery, @scope, stroke-dasharray — 2023-10-05
Google’s AI-generated text-to-image diffusion model makes a small but fun appearance in Android 14’s wallpaper menu.
- Synesthesia, DALL-E 3, Medieval Logos, Climate-friendly Emails, View Transitions — 2023-10-04
A beginner-friendly guide that walks you through the use of the Browser View Transitions API with Astro for a smoother navigation experience…
- Soft Skills, Unfolded Origami, RPG Design Debt, Website for Normies, Dishonest Fonts — 2023-10-03
As a designer, we’re constantly pulled in two directions: towards learning new design tools and towards honing our soft skills.
- Silly Co Valley, text-wrap: balance, Naming Things, Humming-Birds, AI-Generated Images — 2023-10-02
Find inspiration for naming things – be that HTML classes, CSS properties or JavaScript functions – using these lists of useful words.
- Design System, Color Ramp, Google Birthday, Microsoft Copilot, Grungy Textures — 2023-09-29
In today’s hyperconnected world it is critical for a brand to be extremely flexible but recognizable.
- Textareas, WebGL to WebGPU, macOS Sonoma, Invisible Epidemic, Automotive Interfaces — 2023-09-28
Good design is not a function of talent, but number of iterations. Here’s my guide to prototyping automotive interfaces.
- Melted Eggs, All Objects, Accessibility Overlays, Gen Z, Halfsies — 2023-09-27
You just have to admire a chart that casually purports to show every single thing in the Universe in one simple 2D plot.
- Type Scales, Threads CSS, Twitter Throttling, Typography Tips, AI Hallucination — 2023-09-26
With the help of calc(), clamp() and CSS vars, we can create composable, responsive, and fluid type scales.
- linear(), EmojiGen, State of HTML, Accessibility Drama, Spirals — 2023-09-25
With the new CSS linear() easing function on the horizon, what we can do to create natural-feeling animations is greatly expanded.
- Wise Design System, Mixie and Munchie, Michael Bierut, Brand Colors, Design System Ecosystem — 2023-09-22
Before the widespread corporate adoption of the computer, design was full of sharp knives, smelly solvents, and tacky glues.
- B612, Substack Redesign, Astronomy Photographer, Words of Type, Book Patterns — 2023-09-21
B612 is an highly legible open source font family designed and tested to be used on aircraft cockpit screens.
- The Process, RamenHaus, Iconbundler, Safari 17.0, CSS Reset — 2023-09-20
When you start something new, how do you know where you’re going to end up? Most of the time, you don’t.
- Lazy Loading, LEGO Colors, Visually Aggressive, Waterpark Adventure, Design System — 2023-09-19
I see a recurring performance problem on many ecommerce sites—the most important images on the page are being lazy loaded when they shouldn’…
- Dialog Mistakes, Web Components Accessibility, Accessible Charts, Ableist Interactions, Accessibility Case — 2023-09-18
Strategies and practical techniques to convince stakeholders to support and promote accessibility efforts.
- Play with Braille, Marginal User, v0.dev, Datasaurus Dozen, CSS Masks — 2023-09-15
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- BlockFace, Adobe Firefly, River, Canadian Typography, Anchored Sidenotes — 2023-09-14
Artist and designer Will Mower wants to bring tactility and accessibility back to the art of type with the BlockFace stamp kit.
- Brand What-Ifs, Japanese Design, Rebrands, Landing Pages, Cool Tools — 2023-09-13
Graphic designer and writer Elizabeth Goodspeed looks at the current trends in designing for the commercial world.
- Game Boy Camera, Raymarching, Redesigning Design Systems, Polypane, AI Font Picking — 2023-09-12
A major change introduced by iPadOS 17 that is going to make video creators and gamers happy is support for UVC (USB Video Class) devices.
- Accessibility for Designers, Language Models, Colorblind, Auto Interfaces, Onboard AI — 2023-09-11
In this video, Stéphanie gives an introduction about how and where designers can have the biggest impact on Accessibility within a product.
- Video Players, New Google Fonts, WOFF, Fictional Brands, Molly Holzschlag — 2023-09-08
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- Better Brainstorming, Bird Photographer, TimeGuessr, Web Components, Server Components — 2023-09-07
The judges of the Bird Photographer of the Year competition sifted through more than 20,000 images this year.
- View Transitions, Information Architecture, Android Brand, Magma Math, Typography Tips — 2023-09-06
Information architecture is the practice of structuring, organizing, and labeling content from your website.
- Figma Presentations, Healthcare Solutions, 100-Year-Old Bank, Memory Usage, Equivalent Experience — 2023-09-05
The “more options” button is emblematic of how something can be technically usable by everyone, but also confusing for all involved.
- Email Development, Temporarily Abled, Rubber Button, Dots on Dice, Pull-to-Refresh — 2023-09-04
June 6th I was on vacation at the beach with my family and tried something that, looking back now, maybe I’m too old for. And I injured my k…
- WCAG 2.2, Music Clock, Spotify Design System, Sprint, Dribbble Logo — 2023-09-01
Design Manager Juli Sombat sheds light on how a need for more cohesion led Spotify’s design systems team to approach components in a new way…
- Layout Shift, Rebuilding TechCrunch, Astro 3.0, Reddit App, Grid Layout Animation — 2023-08-31
In this episode we’re shifting the topic to layout shift, that moment where you watch the page adapt to something lazily loaded.
- Collaborative Ideation, Oklch, Clickable SVGs, Letter to a Designer, UX Cards — 2023-08-30
Collaborative ideation was never meant to be, and science tells us to go solo instead. Let’s take a closer look.
- linear(), Lightning CSS, collected, Dark Mode, Moon Clock — 2023-08-29
Explore how linear() works compared with other timing functions used for easing, with practical examples.
- UI Interactions, State of CSS, Bézier Curves, TextFX, CSS Math — 2023-08-28
Explore the latest collection of innovative motion designs and inspiring UI interactions from Dribbble.
- Losing Color, Jambot, Midjourney Infill, CSS Shadows, UX Morality — 2023-08-25
Recently, I’ve noticed a new stylistic trend that’s been overwhelming the app icons populating my phone background. And it’s colorless.
- Universal Design, Web Components, @scope, 25 Years of UX, WebGlossary — 2023-08-24
Tips for how to accommodate participants with diverse abilities to ensure that everyone feels included in a workshop.
- Innovation by Design, Viewports, Nice Decks, Toilet Paper, Figma Plugins — 2023-08-23
Dive into a curated collection of standout slides, keynotes, and guidelines, chosen specifically for their design brilliance.
- Office Organization, John Warnock, Scroll Shadows, Minimalist Movie Posters, Container Style Queries — 2023-08-22
I got myself into a position: sticky + horizontal scrolling situation with some overflowing tables the other day.
- Optical Toys, Transhumans, WebGL Image Processing, Smooth Animations, UXPin — 2023-08-21
Transhumans, a collection of black and white illustrations inspired by punk rock, transhumanism, and minimalist Japanese art.
- Paris 2024 Posters, Zag, Butter, Design Principles, UX Books — 2023-08-18
The four design principles that guide Indeed’s UX work and how a content designer used surveys and workshops to lead their creation.
- iMac, Chatbot Hackers, Figma Variables, Very Expensive Maps, Type Designer — 2023-08-17
Ben Bowman is having a breakthrough: he’s just tricked a chatbot into revealing a credit card number it was supposed to keep secret.
- Symmetry in Chaos, Poultry, Scroll Animations, AI Image Statistics, CSS Selectors — 2023-08-16
The following is based upon systems of equations found in “Symmetry in Chaos, A Search for Pattern in Mathematics, Art, and Nature”.
- Stack Exchange, Virtual Keyboard API, Every HTML Element, 3 Questions, Vintage Calculators — 2023-08-15
After learning a little bit more about web accessibility last year I had been exploring some of the less common HTML elements.
- Iconbuddy, Alt Text Hall of Fame, Typograms, Computational Delights, Bricolage Grotesque — 2023-08-14
Iconbuddy is a powerful icon search engine and manager that allows you to search, download, customize, and edit over 180k+ open source icons…
- X, Humans VS AI, Rock-Paper-Scissors, Google Arts & Culture, Car Parts Origami — 2023-08-10
In his solo exhibition ‘Excess of Desire,’ Keita Miyazaki’s sculptures appear to grow from the floor or sprout from pedestals.
- Writing in Public, Water, Radix UI Themes, Flashback, noclip — 2023-08-09
I’ve often heard the advice “don’t read the comments”, but actually I’ve learned a huge amount from reading internet comments.
- Friction, Google Maps, Small Communities, Uphill Thinking, Songwriters — 2023-08-08
Friction often has a negative connotation in user experience design, but it actually has many benefits.
- Web Layouts, Assistive Technology, Scrolljacking, Netscape Meteors, X Logo — 2023-08-07
Altering the normal pace or direction of scrolling can contradict user expectations, control, and freedom.
- Optimized Performance, linear(), Numbers vs Brackets, Threads UX, Magic — 2023-08-04
How Liran Cohen and the team at Bookaway, a travel booking service, dramatically improved their site’s performance.
- Zero UI, Hokusai, CSS & Accessibility, Taylor Swift, Normal Web Things — 2023-08-03
Zero UI represents a fresh approach to user interface design aimed at reducing reliance on conventional graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
- Giant X, Terrible Personas, Web Components, OddContrast, Taste — 2023-08-02
Twitter / X denied building inspectors access to the X logo on two separate occasions over the weekend.
- Window Management, Pause Animations, WCAG 3, Web Platform News, CSS Randomness — 2023-08-01
Window management is one of those areas I’m fascinated with because even after 50 years, nobody’s fully cracked it yet.
- Semantic Design Systems, Adapting Typography, Accordions, Web Development Glossary, CSS Masks — 2023-07-31
A method to adapt a font to your users’ preferences, so they’re maximally comfortable reading your content.
- Scroll Driven Animations, Abode, X, Card Component, State of HTML — 2023-07-28
How the Internet reacted to Twitter’s rebranding as X and Elon Musk’s bold move to turn the platform sparks into the “everything app”.
- Shopify Polaris, Barbie Logo, Core Web Vitals, Early Photos, UX Cookbook — 2023-07-27
- Small Vehicles, Legibility, Depth Scrolling, Design Process, Data Dashboards — 2023-07-26
A slim cataloguing of the rich diversity of small vehicles that help shape street life in the world’s largest city.
- Pines, GradientGenerator, Curved Gradients, Zelda Patterns, Accessibility — 2023-07-25
The new Zelda game uses repeated patterns to build a cohesive world. Let’s write code to generate these patterns.
- WebGPU, Porsche Crest, X, Formative Posts, Proportio — 2023-07-24
With its rearing horse the Porsche crest is one of the most famous designs in automotive history, and every detail has huge significance.
- Portable Grindhouse, Multi-layered Calendars, Animated SVG, Glassdoor Rebrand, Readymag Survey — 2023-07-21
The term Bento Box originates in Japan, where it refers to a meal divided into its constituent parts and packed into a box.
- Fake Vacation, Bento UI, Drinking Habits, 50 Rappers, Natural History Museum — 2023-07-20
The term Bento Box originates in Japan, where it refers to a meal divided into its constituent parts and packed into a box.
- watchOS, Llama 2, Progress Indicators, Scroll-driven Animations, Aptos — 2023-07-19
Apple Watch was launched in 2014 and we’ve seen significant updates to the screen, case materials, sensors and accessories.
- Threads App CSS, Spatial Design, Fudge, CSS In 2023, Tile Illustrations — 2023-07-18
The Internet Archive’s 2010 scan of a late 19th century catalogue of colourful granite tiles came to my attention recently.
- Automation of Work, New @font-face, Cards & Coding, 1337, Blob Toy — 2023-07-17
ChatGPT and generative AI will change how we work, but how different is this to all the other waves of automation of the last 200 years?
- Permission, AI Revolution, Stable Doodle, CSS Layout, Food Packaging — 2023-07-14
The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk.
- Invisible Details, Design Tokens, Figma Typography, Harley-Davidson Font, Elstob — 2023-07-13
This article covers how we evolved our tokens at Intuit to create a flexible taxonomy for a small but powerful set of semantic tokens.
- Free Movie, Writing, AudioEye Lawsuit, Guinness Harp, Tears of the Kingdom UI — 2023-07-12
This is an article about a lawsuit filed by AudioEye against Adrian Roselli, a long-time leader in the global digital accessibility communit…
- Jony Ive Record Player, ChatGPT Code Interpreter, New Viewport Units, Jeans Metadata, Product Design — 2023-07-11
Jony Ive’s design firm LoveFrom joins forces with Linn to create a special turntable for the brand’s 50th anniversary.
- CSS 3D Effects, Floating Labels, React Graph Gallery, Designing for AI, Offset Parent — 2023-07-10
The React Graph Gallery displays hundreds of charts made with React, always with explanation and reproduciible code.
- Designcollectors, Drone Photo Awards, Flight Search UX, Fonts, Free Faces — 2023-07-07
Today, I’m excited to share with you one of the website redesigns I recently completed for one of my long-term clients.
- WordPress 20, MidJourney Pan, Magic, visionOS Patterns, Iridescent Crystal — 2023-07-06
Ideas for how the gaze-based input method of visionOS could communicate fundamental interactions like dragging or entering text.
- Where to Go, AI Brand Campaign, Mosaic, SVG Path, Aura of Care — 2023-07-04
Twitter’s dying, Reddit’s changing, everything else is entertainment – and there’s nowhere left to hang out.
- Continuity, Design For the Web, AI Hammer, MDN Playground, Democratization — 2023-07-03
It will mostly “guess” your aim, tend to miss the nail and push for a different design. Often unnoticeably.
- PDFs, Audubon Awards, CSS State Queries, Online Safety, AI Surveillance — 2023-06-30
We pored through thousands of entries for this year’s contest. The best images show birds going about their business in the most glorious wa…
- Stable Diffusion QR Codes, Mapping Typography, Scroll-Driven Animations, Volker Hermes, Position-Driven Styles — 2023-06-29
The websites we make are nothing less than multi-dimensional objects: the size and shape of them change with every device and browser.
- No Handoff, DevTools Tips, Flagship, Password Game, Alphabet Notes — 2023-06-28
No Handoff offers a practical working pattern that shrinks the distance between product and engineering.
- Streak Redemption, Config 2023, Similarity, Iconic Icons, Penpot Layouts — 2023-06-27
Penpot is enabling designers to craft layouts visually using CSS Flexbox and seamlessly convert them into code.
- Giraffe Caret, Durves, AI & Design, Wikipedia Redesign, svghub — 2023-06-26
A tool for creating and exporting dot patterns for graphic designers, UI/UX, and other visual professionals.
- Designing for visionOS, Flowbite Icons, Svelte 4, Fit-to-Width Text, Two Visions — 2023-06-23
Get started with a collection of free and open-source collection of SVG icons compatible with Flowbite and Tailwind CSS.
- Adobe XD, CSS Pattern, Nike Design System, W3C Website, Figma News — 2023-06-22
Our journey to the Nike design system began more than a decade ago, when we were first tapped to reimagine Nike. com.
- New CSS, Shortcut, Streamberry, Spatial Computing, Invisible Cities — 2023-06-21
I’ve been writing CSS since the early 2000s, shortly after we ditched building web layouts with tables and spacer GIFs.
- Frosted Glass, New UI Paradigm, State of CSS, Alt Proteins, archives.design — 2023-06-20
AI is introducing the third user-interface paradigm in computing history, shifting to a new interaction mechanism.
- British Columbia, Logo Trend Report, Bottom Sheets, Blur Vignette, Stable Diffusion QR Codes — 2023-06-19
A bottom sheet is a user-interface pattern used commonly in mobile apps for providing contextual details or controls in the lower area of th…
- Slow Motion, Stack Overflow Survey, Open Source Income, margin-trim, BentoGrids — 2023-06-16
Ink has been getting some good traction lately and it’s already being used by some well-known companies for a while.
- Fotoautomat, Logo Factory, Illustrator AI, Drawing Tool, UX Bites — 2023-06-15
Fotoautomat preserve, restore and maintain the last original analog photobooths from the 60’s in France and Czech.
- Anchored Popovers, CSS Tragedy, Runway Financial, Comic Mono, CSS Nesting — 2023-06-14
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- Biased AI, CSS Color Spaces, Language Model Sketchbook, Comment Component, UX Career — 2023-06-13
Building a comment component with modern CSS like flexbox, logical properites, :has, style queries, and subgrid.
- Modern CSS, Sonoma Web Apps, Kablammo, Front End Complexity, @scope — 2023-06-12
As web applications grow larger, they inevitably fall prey to complexity, despite our best intentions.
- Japanese Websites, Labelling, Team GB, Dieline Awards, Spatial Computing — 2023-06-09
Does the incorrect position of labels of form fields always constitute a failure of WCAG Success Criterion ‘3. 3.
- AR Prototyping, Uber Navigation, Food Photographer, SVG vs Canvas, Vision Pro — 2023-06-08
The story of how we redesigned Uber Navigation from the ground up using rapid prototyping and data-driven design.
- Vision Pro, Modern CSS, Spatial Design, Douglas Engelbart, Pride Flags — 2023-06-07
Discover the fundamentals of spatial design. Learn how to design with depth, scale, windows, and immersion.
- SpaceBadgers, Skeleton Screens, Form Styling, Apple Vision Pro, Illusion of the Year — 2023-06-06
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- Better Scanning, Blocking Time, Rooms.xyz, Make Something Wonderful, Nike — 2023-06-05
A review of the physical and digital editions of Make Something Wonderful, a book dedicated to the words of Steve Jobs.
- Flipper Taps, Web Platform, AI & Humanity, The Index, Craft Beer — 2023-06-02
The Flipper Taps logo takes the form of a hero F symbol. The design is used across stationery, packaging, and engraved on the product.
- Off Type, Workspaces, TikTok Sans, Slide to Unlock, Paragraphica — 2023-06-01
Reinventing macOS for better collaboration and file management. Experience the future of digital workspaces and enhanced productivity.
- Popovers & Dialogs, Ee Venn Soh, Scroll-driven Animations, Mini Moog Factory, UI Interactions — 2023-05-31
This is me trying to get ahead of a potential issue for users when developers mix and match the patterns.
- Terrible Terms, Good line-height, CSS Blend Modes, Responsive Design, WordPress Turns 20 — 2023-05-30
Learn all about media queries, responsive design principles and techniques, and the mobile-first approach we take at Kablamo.
- Dynamic Interfaces, Intel One Mono, linear(), Bad at CSS, Popover API — 2023-05-29
Introducing Intel One Mono, an expressive monospaced font family that’s built with clarity, legibility, and the needs of developers in mind.
- Font Design, W3C Redesign, Single Line Comments, Thunderbird Logo, Fluent 2 — 2023-05-26
Brad Westfall reminded me of a Sass feature that is probably the one I miss the most every single time I write vanilla CSS.
- Breached Data, Shape Builder, Graph Slider, Motion, display: contents — 2023-05-25
Have you ever wondered how much of your personal information is available online? Here’s your chance to find out.
- Power Pages, AR Design, Inclusive Design, Apple Design Awards, Firefly AI — 2023-05-24
AR designers and creators are today’s magicians. Here’s what they need to know to re-enchant the world.
- Accessible Games, Memory Allocation, Menu, Ticketmaster, Times New Roman — 2023-05-23
An onboarding that prioritises data collection, a punishing checkout experience and a core experience ripe with bugs.
- Error Messages, Screen Rhythm, View Transitions, Color Palettes, Dark Patterns — 2023-05-22
Design effective error messages by ensuring they are highly visible, provide constructive communication, and respect user effort.
- Strawberry, Zoo, Poor Charlie, Photomator, Portamento — 2023-05-19
From state-of-the-art color adjustments to intelligent AI tools, powerful Repair and Clone tools, Photomator for Mac is a photo editing powe…
- Design Patterns, Transit Diagram, Best Pens, Eurovision, Proportional Designs — 2023-05-18
Every company and team has to have deep collaboration between engineering and design to get the value out of a design system.
- Glacial Caves, Brand Power Score, Conversational UIs, Rewrite History, Future Interfaces — 2023-05-17
A deep dive on the early days of creative computing coming to life. Punch cards, plotters, light pens and lots more.
- Early Computer Art, Material Carousel, New in CSS, Kimchi, Conditional CSS — 2023-05-17
A deep dive on the early days of creative computing coming to life. Punch cards, plotters, light pens and lots more.
- SineRider, Backgrounds, TLS, Disabled Buttons, Cart Sorting — 2023-05-15
Remember Line Rider? It’s a simple video game / physics toy where you draw slopes and curves for a person on a sled to navigate.
- Great Wave, Contrast Triangle, Lyft Live Activities, Moderator Mayhem, Weird JavaScript — 2023-05-12
I started this project for no other reason than I love to get into the ‘flow state’ from this kind of creative endeavour.
- Android Design Hub, Baseline, Spotlight Effect, Frontend, Cognitive Load — 2023-05-11
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Android Design Hub — the ultimate resource for building exceptional Android UI.
- Digital Ethics, Scoped CSS, AMP, Ford Logo, Animated Grid — 2023-05-10
In March of 1966, Paul Rand finished his Ford logo presentation book. It was a proposal to Ford Motor Company for a new house mark.
- Restaurant Identities, Functional Documentation, Realistic Attention, Zelda, India Street Lettering — 2023-05-09
Having reflected on some of our favourite coffee and museum brands, we felt it was time to head to the main course.
- Sticky Menus, Variables Fonts, Accessibility in Games, Star Ratings, WebGPU — 2023-05-08
How was it that the 5-star rating became the de facto measure? And what if there is room for something else?
- AI Brand Identity, How GPT Works, Eyecandy, AI-Generated Photo, Customizing Icons — 2023-05-05
An interactive explanation of how language models learn to mimic language, from Shakespeare to Star Trek.
- Figma & Gaming, David Hume, LoveFrom, Serif, High-Contrast Mode, Muji — 2023-05-04
This is a very quick (and fun) introduction to David Hume. It explains his famous “problem of induction” and why it is important for science…
- Heliograph, AI Workflow, Feature Support, CSS Scrollbars, Lock Icon — 2023-05-03
While a custom CSS scrollbar may seem flashy and fun, consider that it may present a significant, unnecessary barrier to access.
- 36 Days of Type, Brushstrokes in Time, Womprat, Polish Pixels, Chatbots Interfaces — 2023-05-02
Treintayseis’ annual type design challenge is in full swing, so we rounded up some of our favorite submissions so far.
- Neat CSS, Custom Properties, Rebuilding Vox News, Spaces, Fixel Font — 2023-05-01
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- Target Sizes, CSS Blend Modes, Elliot Jay Logo, Knit Grotesk, Twitch Streamer — 2023-04-28
Practical guidelines to prevent rage taps and rage clicks with accessible tap targets for icons, links and buttons.
- Accepting Design, Next.js Website, Badging, Journeys vs. Flows, Kids User Research — 2023-04-27
From making it a game to letting kids be the experts, there’s a lot we can do to improve how we draw insights from children.
- Medium Stories, Sci-fi Stories, CSS Tip, Storybook Day, Atomic Design Motion — 2023-04-26
A wide collection of CSS tips and tricks. The best place to keep up to date with the new CSS features.
- Color Models, Fluid Typography, HD Gradients, Arabic Design Archive, Getting a Job — 2023-04-25
To learn more about the behaviors of container query units, we’ll explore three fluid typography techniques.
- Pattern Club, Web Accessibility, has(), Extreme Latency, Figma Components — 2023-04-24
Learn to create inclusive websites with this comprehensive guide on web accessibility, ensuring a user-friendly experience for all visitors.
- UI Goodies, Babylon.js, Spinning Diagrams, Artifacts, Interactions & Animations — 2023-04-21
Porto Rocha pays homage to the institution debuting indie titles like Get Out and Little Miss Sunshine with a 16:9-aspect-ratio logo.
- Sundance Branding, Stripe Sessions, Color Mechanics, Space Elevator, Figma Q&A — 2023-04-21
Porto Rocha pays homage to the institution debuting indie titles like Get Out and Little Miss Sunshine with a 16:9-aspect-ratio logo.
- Military Insignia, d′etectable, Roadmap vs Territory, Typography Manual, Subtitles UX — 2023-04-20
Signal Detection Theory mathematically models our choices in terms of our detection sensitivity and response bias.
- Getty Images, Phone Museum, README Template, Pizza Dark Patterns, Web Agency Summit — 2023-04-18
An extraordinary amount of human history — cultural, scientific, artistic — is held in private hands.
- Venmo Concept, Sleep, Title Effect, Embracing AI, Gesamtkunstwerk — 2023-04-17
This year the news has been booming about AI. You can’t open a news website that doesn’t have an article on the front page about ChatGPT.
- Death of Photography, AI Strategies, Stable Diffusion XL, UI Patterns, Color Contrast Checker — 2023-04-14
As more companies realize it costs quite a bit to create generative AI content, we may be coming to the end of free, open source AI models.
- Deck of Cards, Fictional Brands Archive, SVG Drawing, Shaper v2, Storybook 7.0 — 2023-04-13
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- Onboarding Flow, Floor796, Colorblindness, Wikipedia Search, UX & AI Principles — 2023-04-12
If you want to maximize conversions or collect necessary user information for other purposes, a user onboarding flow is necessary.
- Teams Design, Why Lego Won, Typographic Size, ChatGPT & Design, Web Components CSS — 2023-04-11
Lego did not invent the stacking, interlocking plastic brick — Kiddiecraft did. So why did Lego’s version win?
- Wellness App, Text Balancing, Honest Headlines, Mullvad Browser, Visual Basic — 2023-04-10
Week 6 of the Ironhack UX/UI Design Bootcamp has come to an end and my current emotional state can be described as overwhelmed and on edge.
- AI History, Safari Releases, American Smile, WebGPU, Design System Names — 2023-04-07
After years of development, the Chrome team ships WebGPU which allows high-performance 3D graphics and data-parallel computation on the web.
- Adobe Firefly, Pop-ups, Segment Anything, Data Visualization, Page Transitions — 2023-04-06
We provide high-level summaries of findings and answer important questions about the future of data visualization.
- Christoph Niemann, Copilot, Wikimedia Grid, html review, Grid World — 2023-04-05
The beer industry has been on its heels since early 2020, and this year is shaping up to be another challenging one.
- Black Boxes, Beer Branding, Fresh Fonts, Toggle, Accessibility Resources — 2023-04-05
The beer industry has been on its heels since early 2020, and this year is shaping up to be another challenging one.
- Netflix Is A Joke, Web Platform News, Widows & Orphans, CSS Shapes, CSS Masking — 2023-04-03
“When it comes to the shapes and colours of the identity, we wanted to convey the idea of a comedy comeback after the pandemic”.
- UX Basics, Design Workshops, Checkered Background, Design Systems, Include — 2023-03-31
Unsure where to start? Use this collection of links to our articles and videos to learn more about the basics of user experience.
- Uber Redesign, Trigonometric Functions, New in Figma, Apple Passwords, Dyslexia — 2023-03-30
Let’s focus on cognitive accessibility of digital products and how to make them better for users with Dyslexia.
- Bicycle, Hide the Body, Same Name, Safari 16.4, Emojis Accessibility — 2023-03-29
Logo critics can be a tiresome lot. Sometimes their condemnations are spot on, but often their banter sounds like so much kvetching.
- WYSIWYGPT, Search Element, CSS-only Widgets, Malleable Software, Remix — 2023-03-28
One of the GPT-4 demos made a massive splash: painting a web app on a napkin and getting the “AI” to create the HTML, CSS and JS to make it…
- Tone-based Surfaces, Flectofy, Fluent UI, Sabbath Mode, Male AIs — 2023-03-27
Design prototypes with 70+ interactive Fluent UI components that can be reused across teams. Build products faster.
- Aperiodic Monotile, Bumble Onboarding, Microsoft Loop, Amifer Folio, ChatGPT Plugins — 2023-03-24
A single shape that can cover a two-dimensional space with a pattern that never repeats itself exactly.
- Copilot X, NYC Logo, Visually Hidden, Dark Sky, Nibble Health — 2023-03-23
The reasons one would visually hide content in the development of a website is generally to include extra content for accessibility.
- CSS Print Layout, California Drought, W.E.I.R.D, Loom Onboarding, Designing Zenly — 2023-03-22
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- Logical Properties, Fungi & Slime, Interface Fonts, End of Front-End, Graph Manipulation — 2023-03-21
Beautiful, well-crafted fonts for headings and body text that you probably haven’t spotted before. Free for personal and commercial use.
- Blogs, Don’t Want To, SVG Shapes, Make Bookmarklets, Optical Illusion — 2023-03-20
I have a lot of nostalgia for the era of blogging that I grew up with during the first decade or so of the 2000s.
- CSS Snippets, react.dev, Wikipedia Redesign, GPT-4, Accessible CAPTCHAS — 2023-03-17
For the past few years I led the redesign of the Wikipedia desktop interface, which launched this past January.
- GPT-4 Language, Modern Font Stacks, Fantasy Maps, Calhern, Kottke.org — 2023-03-16
Practice drawing little houses and towers. Then level them up with dimensional views and clusters that create different styles of towns and…
- Shantell Sans, Previous Siblings, Women & UX, Color Contrast, iOS Navigation — 2023-03-15
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- Nature Photography, Next Wordle, Type Design Resources, Playdate Design, UXPin — 2023-03-14
Wordle is the deceptively simple puzzle that became a global sensation last Christmas. The challenge: to create a rival.
- CSS Screensavers, RSS, Theme Toggles, Isometric Backgrounds, How We Document — 2023-03-13
Relive classic 1990s Mac and PC screensavers like Flying Toasters and Aquatic Realm, remade using modern CSS techniques.
- JavaScript Features, Notes Art, Nokia Logo, Age of AI, Starters and Finishers — 2023-03-10
This article goes through almost all of the changes of the last 3 years (and some from earlier) in JavaScript / ECMAScript and TypeScript.
- CSS Transitions, CO2 Emissions, Framework Performance, CSS Clock, Regenerative UX — 2023-03-09
CSS trigonometry functions are here! Well, they are if you’re using the latest versions of Firefox and Safari, that is.
- AI Technology, Figma Community, Developer Experience, Hello Tomorrow!, Site Analysis — 2023-03-08
Nick and Gleb cover the current state of design and share practical tips on how designers can make the most of using AI tools.
- Design-by-wire, Marcin Wichary, Paying Artists, Arrows, Creativity — 2023-03-07
Seeing creativity as a system simplifies the creative process & allows for better management of creative energy over time.
- Realistic Logos, Web Design Museum, WebContainers, Sparkles, Duolingo Conversion — 2023-03-06
Web Design Museum exhibits over 2,000 unique designs from the years 1991 to 2006. Discover forgotten trends in web design.
- Keyboard Shortcuts, Scrollbar.app, Revisiting Framer, UI Interactions, Netflix Sign-ups — 2023-03-01
Software Engineer Dorothy Chen explains the technical challenges and opportunities in making Figma keyboard shortcuts more accessible for ev…
- AI-Generated Images, Lost Chicago, F-Secure Rebrand, 100 Visualizations, Form Validation — 2023-02-28
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- Font Fallbacks, Site Generators, Scribble Diffusion, ICON x Khaby Lame, Bing Onboarding — 2023-02-27
The new size-adjust and font metric overrides allow developers to create font fallbacks that closely match web fonts.
- Prime Video Identity, Open Circuits, Windows XP Logo, Chrome Extension, In Their Own Words — 2023-02-24
A brand refresh for one of the world’s biggest streaming services welcomes fans of all kinds to a universe of entertainment.
- CSS Nesting, Resizing with CSS, Last Baseline, Make it Easier, Shift Happens — 2023-02-23
- Utopian Turtletop, 2022 Wrapped, AI Design Systems, Climate Control, flex-wrap — 2023-02-22
In 1955, the marketing department of the Ford Motor Company tried unsuccessfully for months to name their newest car.
- Type 1, Wikimedia Brand, iOS Web Push, Mastodon strategy, Custom Knowledge Base — 2023-02-21
This month, Adobe is shipping several application updates which remove support for the original PostScript font format known as Type 1.
- Papercut Fonts, Netflix Identity, Gooey Effects, Spirit of CSS Tricks, Sketching — 2023-02-20
Netflix approached us to inject some of that language graphically across their product experience and beyond.
- Visualizing the Cloud, Container Queries, Flex Applications, React.js, ADHD a11y — 2023-02-17
Let’s focus on cognitive accessibility of digital products and how to make them better for users with ADHD.
- Logo Refresh, Lessons of Design, Underwater Photographer, Bing vs Sydney, Gender Demographics — 2023-02-16
The lettering artist tells us all about her process, what brands are looking for, and the differences between rebrands and refreshes.
- Rom-coms, King Charles, Optical Adjustments, ChatGPT, Twitter Accessibility — 2023-02-15
Rom-coms have seen a rise and fall in popularity at theaters in the U. S.
- UX Collective, CSS Wishlist, Stable Attribution, Orange Favicon, Hollywood UI — 2023-02-14
You can’t have a white favicon, because, in a lot of situations, you won’t be able to see the dang thing at all.
- AI Illustrations, Bite-Sized A11y, nth-child, Design Thinking, Defying Physics — 2023-02-13
Can we train AI to generate illustrations in De Voorhoede style? Short answer: yes.
- Lemons, TypeTrials, Design Psychology, Ethical Research, Writing Interfaces — 2023-02-10
You might not know it yet, but you beautiful designer, have an almighty power in your hands: the power of Design Psychology.
- Shift Happens, CHEEX, Pele Explainer, ABVA, Shuffling Typography — 2023-02-09
‘Shift Happens’ documents 150 years of keyboard history from early analog typewriters to the pixelated versions on our phones.
- Selector Performance, 3 Lines of CSS, Fort Worth, OKLCH, Design for AI — 2023-02-08
If you’re a web developer, you may have already heard that some CSS selectors are faster than others.