…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,
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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. …
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 …
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 …
