Design

When it comes to CSS, Thierry Koblentz is convinced that the only way to improve how to author style sheets is by moving away from the sacred principle of “separation of concerns”. CSS authors thrive on styling documents entirely through style sheets, an approach that has been sanctified by the CSS Zen Garden project (what most developers consider to be the standard for how to author style sheets).

I spent the past few weeks packing as many easter eggs as I could into my latest project, and in this blog post, I want to dig into some of the more interesting details! If you’re interested in animations/interactions, you’ll want to check this one out; I share a bunch of my favourite secrets and tricks. 😄

What is quality? And how do things of quality get built? A limited series. Now streaming.

This paper, produced by The Audience Agency and Careful Industries working alongside Arts Council England, aims to build the case for the importance of RD&I in the creative and cultural sector.

Content testing helps you make better content decisions. Here's an outline of different types of tests you can do and tips to get started.

One of the most exciting things about this design era is how unpredictable the designer's path has become. Old patterns

Today Dezeen launches its latest editorial series. Performance Review will interrogate the multitude of issues plaguing design and architecture.

AI Prototyping: Harder. Worser. Faster. Wronger.

It's easy to prototype and so everyone is prototyping, without really knowing why they are doing it. The resultant noise drowns out thoughtful work.

Is it a lifestyle?

Since the earliest years of my design career, when I was volunteering in organising conferences or youth activities, I was always “asked” to take care of all visual tasks — like draw a flyer or…

This blog has always been about optimism, creating better user experiences, helping users spend more time in flow, and learning. There are 405 posts here. More importantly, there are nearly 10,000 comments from y'all that add so much more to the topics, and from which myself and others have learned a great deal. I don't want the last thing people remember about this blog to be The Bad Things.

This are product lessons and tips showing what we can learn from how Figma CEO (Dylan Field) buildt figma to be a product everyone loves

Figma recently conducted a survey of 200 front-end engineers to find out how they like working with designers. We asked them what’s working, what isn’t and where the points of tension are.

How we work with design can have a tremendous impact on our overall output, and yet we don't always treat it as very important. A look at how collaborating with design can supercharge our own productivity.

RYBitten is a color tool and library for exploring painterly, RYB-inspired color mixing, gamut presets, and palette generation on the web.

Design tokens bring together design and development teams with a single, unified language for expressing color, fonts, sizing, and more.

Build, share and choose your own plugins in Penpot.

Build, share and choose your own plugins in Penpot.

What the **** does that mean?

If designers want a better future for their trade, now is the perfect time to start from scratch. Not refresh. Not reboot. Start over—with clear answers to questions we seemingly didn’t get right the last time: What does design actually do? What does good design look like? How do we critique it, measure it, improve it? What is design responsible for—and accountable to? Where does the role begin and end? This isn’t a dig at anyone. I’m not interested in blaming the past. I’m interested in what