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. 😄

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

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.

AI Prototyping: Harder. Worser. Faster. Wronger.

Explore how trust badges influence eCommerce sales. Learn about their impact on conversion rates to drive growth for your startup.

Can we defend pursuing beauty when communicating science or innovation?

We fountain pen people are weird. Every month, around the start of the month, we do a version of the same thing: we make lists. What inks to put in what pens. Rotation schemes, seasonal palettes, e…

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.

Why listening to smart people doesn't make you more thoughtful.

With the disappearance of the computer, something else is silently becoming invisible as well — the User.

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.

In recent years, the way drivers interact with cars has fundamentally changed.

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.

Modern CSS now solves problems we’ve relied on JavaScript for. Learn when to use content-visibility, container queries, and scroll timelines instead of JS.

Methods for generating ideas, discovering new opportunities, and getting to know your users.

Although many different instigators, roles, and activities are involved in a discovery, all discoveries strive to achieve consensus on a problem to be solved and its desired outcomes.

An accessible introduction to ideonomy

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.

Dark patterns are now banned in the EU. Learn what’s illegal and how to make your UX design fully compliant.

The DTCG’s goal is to provide standards upon which products and design tools can rely for sharing stylistic pieces of a design system at scale.