Design

Validation errors won't ever be eliminated – they are a natural part of complex forms and user inputs. In this article we share insights from our usability studies and see how error messages are a key factor in the user's error recovery experience.

When it comes to error handling, it truly is a team sport

The Web Almanac is an annual state of the web report combining the expertise of the web community with the data and trends of the HTTP Archive.

A catalogue of design patterns gathered from observations and research

A graphic design app that helps you create professional quality social media posts, invitations, digital postcards, graphics, and more. Start with your idea and create something unique for you.

Enabling a constructive dialogue between UI design and development

AVIF and WebP are modern image formats that generally produce smaller file sizes compared to the widely used JPEG format. This post explains...

In 2010, Patrick McKenzie wrote the now-famous blog “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names”, in which he listed 40 things that were not universally true about names. Did programmers sit up, take notice and change their attitudes to names? Sadly, not really. We still get asked...

ImgEditor is an amazing text to image editor that allows you to photoshop any images in seconds only using texts. It's built using our AI text to image generator. Try inpainting, outpainting, or modifying images just using text

Forced colors is a CSS media query that when active radically changes the way your site looks, without any of your input. In this article we'll explore where it comes from, how it changes your site and how you can adapt…

This tutorial describes how to build an accessible main navigation of a website. You learn about semantic HTML, accessibility, and how using ARIA attributes can sometimes do more harm than good.

Learn how to define baseline grids, column grids, spacing and layouts.

So that's the HTML capture attribute. It's a pretty cool way to add a nicer user experience if you know that your mobile users are going to be taking a

Visual symbols are powerful ways to make social constructs —from fashion to government— feel legitimate, trustworthy, and familiar. What's the role that design play in shaping our future fictions?

This offboarding case study shows how Typeform's cancellation experience could be improved. You'll also learn a key retention strategy that can reduce churn.

Taking a look at P3 color and the new methods for defining colors in CSS.

Here’s something I’d never heard of before: Display-P3 support in CSS Color Module Level 4 spec. This is a new color profile supported by certain displays and

Display-P3 color space includes vivid colors that aren’t available in sRGB.

Designing for long-form articles on the web is wrought with tons of considerations to create a relaxed and comfortable reading experience.

Design can never truly be free of culture, gender, and bias.  Our pursuit of a neutral and universal design may bring us to modernism, minimalism, and the Apple-esque aesthetic, but these design schools, inspired by eurocentric standards, carry qualities associated with masculinity. How can we go beyond the stereotypical binary view of masculine and feminine and create more universal, inclusive designs? Genderfluidity can give us a hint about the future of design and culture.

Playform is a no-code AI for creative people. Our platform enables artists, designers and creators to leverage the power of AI to expand their imagination and increase their productivity, without learning how to code. Create AI art today! New users get $15 in free training credits.

If you wanted to be 100% mathematical and consistently even about crafting a grayscale color palette, you could create the colors in a math-friendly color function like HSL, like so: Here’s an example of using those colors as backgrounds: If you wanted to DRY that up in SCSS, you could do something like: In actuality, […]

Smart SVG techniques, from generative SVG grids to SVG paths with masks, grainy SVG gradients, cut-out effects and fractional SVG stars. Let’s look at some magical SVG techniques that you can use right away.

Randomly generate beautiful mesh gradients, export them as an SVG or copy the generated CSS code into your project

Hi there! I am Joni Halabi, a web developer, speaker, and writer, based in Washington DC.

Pastel is the easiest, and fastest way for web designers, developers, and agencies to collect feedback on the websites they're building.

Recently at work, I ran into a situation where we had to revisit how SVG icons were being implemented on our pages.

In this post I share how I created theme variants based on light and dark mode preferences.