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[Robin]: Animations are important, but deadly. They can focus our attention on certain bits of information at just the right time, they can be for fun when you’ve hit a button, and animations can …
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We’ve gathered together a host of writers and front-end folk to tell you what they learned during this year into this 2020’s End of Year Thoughts. There’s so much to learn from in …
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[Robin]: Making things move by Varun Vachhar is a fantastic blog post I stumbled on the other day. He talks about how he built the following animation with canvas-stretch and walks step-by-step in the …
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Creating UI Components in SVGSarah wrote about all the exciting possibilities that open up when you learn about the intricacies of SVG:
…Truly, once you learn SVG, you can draw anything, and have
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[Robin]: The first thing that caught my eye this week is this fabulous tutorial by Alex Trost where he walks us through how to make this rather nifty design:
This design is the work …
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[Robin]: One time I was interviewing someone for a UI engineering gig and noticed something interesting. We were building a UI that involved flexbox and the person opened up DevTools and started clicking …
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[Robin]: One of the nifty things about VS Code is that you can run tasks when you open up a project. So instead of having to open up the command line and also have …
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Core Web Vital ToolingCore Web Vitals is how Google measures the performance of any given site and you might’ve already heard the buzzwords like LCP, FID, and CLP. But — …
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[Robin]: I read this post from Dave Rupert about setting color variables, using a combination of Sass vars, CSS vars, and what Dave calls “semantic theme vars.” He writes:
…Last week I got
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[Robin]: This week I’ve been moving into a new apartment and everything is, well, to put it kindly, an absolute nightmare. There’s a rat king of cables and three laundromat’s worth of clothes on …
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Just the other day Kilian Valkohof wrote this great piece about how to create a full-bleed layout effect where an element like an image breaks out from the grid you’ve established.
Kilian shows us …
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Earlier this week, I watched this fantastic talk by Ethan Marcotte about the current state of design systems and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. The part that really stuck out …
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Color within ConstraintsHere’s a fantastic piece by Linzi Berry about the design systems team at Lyft and how they work on their color guidelines:
…On the surface color seems simple, but getting
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[Robin]: My day job is at Sentry and I’ve never worked at a place where everyone cares so intensely about the quality of the codebase and the design. But one thing that I think …
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AVIF has Landed!Big news this week: a wild new image format appears! And, as Jake Archibald writes, it’s called AVIF and it just launched in Chrome, so you can use it today …
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[Robin]: In a post the other day about text stroke and CSS, Chris wrote:
Whenever I think of stroked text on the web I think: nope.
This is interesting to me because …
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CSS transforms and perspectiveOne thing I don’t see enough on the web are experiments with CSS transforms and I was reminded of this the other day when I saw this great example from …
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[Robin]: Over the weekend I read this post by Jim Nielsen about web technologies and syntax that I really enjoyed. The gist of the post is that the latest technical achievement is not …
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[Robin]: This week I want to take a closer look at the min(), max(), and clamp() functions. I keep hearing things about them but I’ve never used them in production and although …
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Folding pages with CSSLet’s kick things off this week with a remarkable demo from Amit Sheen where he’s made the pages of a book animate with nothing but CSS:
The trick? Every …
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