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Direct link to the article The Department of Useless Images
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The Department of Useless Images

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Gerry McGovern:

The Web is smothering in useless images. These clichéd, stock images communicate absolutely nothing of value, interest or use. They are one of the worst forms of digital pollution because they take up space on the page,

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Nov 18, 2019
Direct link to the article Design Principles for Developers: Processes and CSS Tips for Better Web Design
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Design Principles for Developers: Processes and CSS Tips for Better Web Design

It is technically true that anyone can cook. But there’s a difference between actually knowing how to prepare a delicious meal and hoping for the best as you throw a few ingredients in a pot. Just like web development, you …

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Andrew Spencer on Aug 8, 2019 (Updated on Sep 16, 2019)
Direct link to the article Telling the Story of Graphic Design
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Telling the Story of Graphic Design

Let me just frame this for you: we’re going to take a piece of production UI from a Sketch file, break it down into pieces of information and then build it up into a story we tell our friends. Our …

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Sally McGrath and and Katie Parry on Jul 26, 2019
Direct link to the article What Are Design Tokens?
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What Are Design Tokens?

I’ve been hearing a lot about design tokens lately, and although I’ve never had to work on a project that’s needed them, I think they’re super interesting and worth jotting down a few notes about. As I understand it, the …

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Robin Rendle on Apr 3, 2019
Direct link to the article The Process of Implementing A UI Design From Scratch
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The Process of Implementing A UI Design From Scratch

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This is a fantastic post by Ahmad Shadeed. It digs into the practical construction of a header on a website — the kind of work that many of us regularly do. It looks like it’s going to be fairly easy …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Mar 13, 2019
Direct link to the article Design v17
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Design v17

We rolled out a new site design on January 1! This is the 17th version of CSS-Tricks if you can believe that. The versions tend to evolve a decent amount beyond the initial launch, but we archive screenshots on this …

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Chris Coyier on Jan 14, 2019
Direct link to the article Web Designs That Feel Like Ancient History, but Are More Recent Than You Think
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Web Designs That Feel Like Ancient History, but Are More Recent Than You Think

Flickr announced not long ago that they are limiting free accounts to 1,000 photos. I don’t particularly mind that (because it seems like sound business sense), although it is a bit sad that a ton of photos will be nuked …

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Chris Coyier on Dec 12, 2018
Direct link to the article DevTools for Designers
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DevTools for Designers

This is such an interesting conversation thread that keeps popping up year after year. The idea is that there could (and perhaps should) be in-browser tooling that helps web designers do their job. This tooling already exists to some degree. …

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Chris Coyier on Nov 29, 2018
Direct link to the article Preventing Suicide with UX: A Case Study on Google Search
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Preventing Suicide with UX: A Case Study on Google Search

I came clean about my long-running and ongoing battle with chronic depression last year in a blog post on my personal site. But don’t worry, things are no worse than they were then and this post is about something else. …

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Geoff Graham on Oct 30, 2018
Direct link to the article Why Designers Don’t Want to Think When They Read
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Why Designers Don’t Want to Think When They Read

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We’ve all seen articles like “The Top 5 Ways To Fix Your Sign Up Flow and Get On With Your Life.” Articles like this aren’t wrong or bad, they are just shallow and a bit junk food-y and BuzzFeed-y. Of …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Sep 14, 2018
Direct link to the article Old Timey Terminal Styling
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Old Timey Terminal Styling

I saw a little demo the other day called HTML5 Terminal. It has some functionality, but it seems like it’s just kinda for fun. That said, I loved the aesthetic of it! Blurry monospace type with visible monitor lines …

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Chris Coyier on Sep 11, 2018
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