Design

By Jonathan Simcoe

The next wave of internet users is coming online. Are your products ready?

From Chrome 123 use align-content to align items without creating a flex or grid container.

An experiment in javascript-free syntax highlighting, made possible by opentype contextual alternates and COLR table

An urban fantasy podcast of tape recordings by the curator of a secretive london-based art auction house.

Balancing the age-old simplicity of words on paper with the myriad creative possibilities of the web is a tension as old as the web itself. Leaning into that overlap can bring new dimensions not just to the things we write but also to how we write them.

You didn’t start your web career to be a politician or salesperson. But if you want to work on design systems, you have no choice. Ben Callahan shows you how to convince executives to fund the init…

Leaders from Stripe, Linear, and Figma explore how craft and beauty are core to product and business growth.

Throw out those brand guidelines!

A standard style for README files. Contribute to RichardLitt/standard-readme development by creating an account on GitHub.

Somehow we forgot how to center rectangles and must find our way back

You may have heard the term “modern Victorian interior design,” and if you find it somewhat confusing, don’t worry, you’re not the only one

Gantt charts, if applied correctly, can be a strategic asset for keeping your head above the waves of complexities in UX projects.

Nature, science, perception, and the arcane merge to form the foundational philosophy of Daniel Martin Diaz’s practice.

6 simple steps to ensure your product idea is necessary, marketable, and primed for success

Three video conferencing tools that are objectively very similar, but that often trigger a cult-like preference. But which has a better UX?

Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has evolved, we’ve been given lots of new tools we can use… But how do we pick the best option? When do we use Flexbox, or CSS Grid, or something else? Let's dig into it.

Working material to the Smashing Meets Figma talk. In the talk, I cover how to connect spreadsheets and APIs with Google Sheets and the amazing Kernel plugin. Follow video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njf_xX0mPWs

It's time to start using this underutilized keyword, even if you're not using cascade layers yet.

Answer (1 of 5): They can be for certain tasks, but in turbulence or emergency situations you need precision in action, which is difficult to do with a touchscreen - you don’t want to touch the incorrect icon and exacerbate the emergency situation or activate/deactivate a system unnecessarily. If...

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Typography is what comes between the author and the reader. This is as true on the web as it is in any other medium. If a text has anything at all significant to say, it needs a typographer’s care, which will in turn be repaid by the reader’s attention. If you design websites or use CSS then you are a typographer whether you know it or not.

Line length & line height are crucial if you want your text to look pleasant. This article shows how they are interconnected and what to focus on when setting it in web or app design.

This typographic review shows why you should not center text that spreads across multiple lines to improve readability.

Most product teams commonly adopt a feature-centric mindset, finding them convenient for brainstorming, drafting requirement documents, and integrating into backlogs and ticketing systems. In this article, Andy Budd shows how fixation with features might be holding you back and how making a few small tweaks to your process could make an entire world of difference.