Rebuilding the Foundation of Etsy’s Seller Tools - Code as Craft
At its core, the Etsy marketplace is powered by its sellers. The Shop Management team at Etsy is comprised of engineers, designers, product managers, usability researchers, and data analysts who wo…
In this new Pattern Build series, we’re going to pick a pattern on the web and write modular, responsive, and reusable HTML and CSS for the particular pattern. This week, we’re going to recreate the cards seen on CodePen.
On Design Systems: Sell The Output, Not The Workflow – Smashing Magazine
So how do you sell a design system to the client? How do you establish a shared commitment within the company to put a pattern library on the roadmap? As designers and developers, we often know and see the benefits of an overarching system that radiates consistency throughout the different experiences of a company. But sometimes it’s seen as a very unpredictable investment, and the value isn’t necessarily visible right away. In his article on Selling Design Systems, Dan Mall suggests to illustrate how fractured an organization is by printing out its different presences online an...
From Pages to Patterns: An Exercise for Everyone | Charlotte Jackson, Front-end developer
Language defines the life of components. A “blue button” will work until the button is no longer blue—and then the name won’t make sense anymore. The pattern will have no reason to exist if blue buttons have fallen out of use
Building Resizeable Components with Relative CSS Units | CSS-Tricks
The following is a guest post by Ahmad Shadeed. Ahmad has put together a ton of examples to show off how using relative units can benefit us. I think a
This is my second “Fun with CSS” post, maybe this should become a series. But anyway, I had watched the video of Ethan Marcotte‘s talk at An Event Apart called Laziness in the Time of Responsive Design, and was fascinated by his progressive enhancement demo.
In August, we released a major redesign of slack.com, and we want to give you a peek behind-the-scenes. Rebuilding our marketing website was a massive project that took careful coordination across a variety of teams, departments, and agencies. We implemented a redesign while overhauling all the under-the-hood code. Our aim was to address a few […]
CSS best practices for fast-growing SaaS startups - Sqreen Blog | Modern Ap
CSS Best Practices: how to scale CSS in a fast-growing SaaS startup. Learn CSS best practices from SCSS to Styleguidist, SASS, PostCSS, React, Bulma, CSS-in-JS or Bootstrap.
Brad Frost recently wrote about managing technology-agnostic design systems. In his post, he recommends using a technology that doesn’t tie itself to any specific framework. When I was at Yahoo!,...
