Posts Tagged ‘web design’

Size of Life by Neal Agarwal is absolutely beautiful, incredible, and informative. Web design inspiration at its finest.

CSS Wrapped 2025 is a super fun website that shows off the latest and greatest CSS features. The website’s got some fun light/dark mode action going on too!

I just visited Smart Quotes For Smart People for some copy/paste action! Shout-out to Jason Santa Maria for keeping some wonderful old-gold websites alive!

I had the biggest honor to review and write the foreword for the 5th edition of Jennifer Robbins’ book, Learning Web Design. The foreword itself explains why it’s such a huge honor, so here it is: It was a warm […]

Great source of inspiration for punchy headlines: Website Headlines (dotcom) I find myself in the position of needing to write headlines, and almost never love anything LLMs come up with. This feels like great inspiration.

In our new comprehensive online course, Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens, we discuss the need to revisit the powerful concept of separation of concerns. Separation of concerns is a computer science principle introduced in the mid 1970s that […]

I had the pleasure of speaking with Vy Alechnavicius on the Experienced Design podcast. We had a great wide-ranging conversation!

I’m late in posting this because boy oh boy, there’s been a lot going on. But Episode 2 of our show Open Up is out! Geoff and I tackled some great questions and covered a lot of ground in this […]

There’s some fantastic UI inspiration on Fancy Components. I can already here the grumblings around practicality, accessibility, React, etc, but let’s park all that for a bit and just enjoy some fun and creative UI design.

OMG. Life perspective through UI. I freaking love it. Check out My Life in Weeks by Gina Trapani

Oh dang this is super cool. WhoCanUse succinctly demonstrates how people with different types of colorblindness see different color choices.

OMG, this is such great news! My favorite newsletter Sidebar is back from its break. Designer Fabricio Teixeira is taking over the duties. He explains the spirit of Sidebar: Sidebar has always felt different. It has advocated for a healthier web […]

I could do a deep dive into the UX of login codes, but I’ll do my best to keep it short. If your product texts/emails login codes, the experience better be amazing. Bad Better Best The best experience is for […]

I wore my Olukai Mahana slippers all day every day for 3 years. They finally got beat up enough that when my family asked me what I wanted for Christmas, I said that I’d welcome a new pair of slippers. […]

kirby vs. this blog post is an incredible piece of web design. Well done.

ULTRA PROUD DAD MOMENT: Ella made her first website! Melissa and I woke up on Saturday morning to our goofy 6-year-old daughter entering our bedroom making this obnoxious sound. It was impressively annoying, especially considering she hasn’t seen Dumb and […]

The great and kind Tim Brown has made his Flexible Typesetting A Book Apart book available for free.

Cameron’s World is a web-collage of text and images excavated from the buried neighbourhoods of archived GeoCities pages (1994–2009). Holy shit this is amazing: Cameron’s World

I’ve spent pretty much my entire career helping teams design software rather than pictures of software. Development is design. Frontend design. Front-of-front-end code. Front-end workshop environments. Death to the waterfall. The Hot Potato process. Designer/developer collaboration. Pattern Lab. I’ve shared […]

This by Matt Webb is easily one of the coolest and most creative bits of web design I’ve seen in a long time. It’s a fantastic reminder that there’s still so much room to explore and innovate on the web. […]

Raw-dogging websites: index.html, styles.css, script.js. No frameworks, no CMSes, no build steps, no nuthin’. Sure, you can call it a static site, but even those tend to be compiled by sophisticated tooling behind the scenes. And also, c’mon, gotta get […]

Ah yes, this old chestnut. It pops up as reliably as daffodils in early spring. My perspective has changed very little over the years. Telling web designers they don't need to worry about code is like telling architects they don't […]

The most crucial mistake in the collaboration between designers and engineers happens when we conflate this division of tools with a need for a strong division of labor. Treating design and engineering as two completely separate processes leads to an […]

I don’t know how else to answer this, besides: the gendering of design as women’s work is why people don’t use the title “web designer” anymore. It’s been belittled and othered away. It’s why we’ve split that web design role […]

Footer — The only footer gallery on earth. This gives me all the web design gallery nostalgic feels.

Absolutely honored to have atomic design included in this roundup of Educational Sensational Inspirational Foundational posts.

I had an unique opportunity to be interviewed about my interest in both music and web design. I covered a lot of ground! The interview is pretty raw (meaning not super edited), but it’s interesting (to me anyways). Check it […]

This is really good and fun. Source: 136 facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to landscape painting or nude modelling – Baldur Bjarnason

Here are a few random stories from my last couple weeks of work. We have a datepicker field that has a calendar SVG icon sitting on top of the field. There was an issue where clicking the icon wasn’t triggering […]

I’m always amazed by the level of effort involved in web design/development. Adding a simple button to a UI can translate to weeks or even months of work. Behind every little bit of UI is a giant iceberg of technology […]