Design

It may sound like something you're supposed to do in a shady glen or a far-away forest, but in reality, knolling is an important and popular design term

In order to achieve maximum contrast in design, interface designers often use a combination of pure black and white colors, which helps…

A Wardley map is a map for business strategy.[1] Components are positioned within a value chain and anchored by the user need, with movement described by an evolution axis.[2] Wardley maps are named after Simon Wardley who created the technique at Fotango in 2005 having created the evolutionary framing the previous year.[3][4] The technique was further developed within Canonical UK between 2008 and 2010[5][third-party source needed] and components of mapping can be found in the "Better For Less" paper published in 2010.[6]

Can’t face another minute thinking about war, inflation or the climate catastrophe? Give your brain a break in a strange, surprising or entrancing corner of the internet. We’ve got riddles, we’ve got webcams, we’ve got an owl in a box …

Design critique, much like any criticism nowadays, falls into two opposite camps – and neither is constructive.

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...