Over the last six years or so, I’ve been using these things I’ve been calling “type patterns” in my web design work, and they’ve worked out pretty well for me. I’ll dig into what they are and how they can …
You can have the best open source project in the world but, if it doesn’t have good documentation, chances are it’ll never take off. In the office, good documentation could save you having to repeatedly answer the same questions. Documentation …
We talk a lot about Vue around here, including some practical applications of it, but haven’t gotten deep into designing for it. In this post, Viljami Salminen describes his Vue design process and the thinking that led him to build …
I’ve been having the time of my life with React lately. But on my journey, I’ve had a hard time finding good code style guidelines to keep the mix of JSX and JS clean and readable. I’ve been coming up …
The Wix dev team throws their hat into the CSS preprocessor ring:
…Stylable is a CSS preprocessor that enables you to write reusable, highly-performant, styled components. Each component exposes a style API that maps its internal parts so you can
I strongly believe that the documentation should be kept as close to the code as possible. Based on my experience, that’s the only option that works well in the long term. External documents, notes, and wikis all eventually get outdated, …
Last fall, our dev team wanted to get started with style guides. We had added a new member to the team, and as he was getting up to speed, we realized how lacking our project documentation was. If you’ve ever …
The following is a guest post by Nick Berens, a senior front-end developer at wisnet.com. Nick and his team have been building websites through custom style guides for years. Over those years, Nick has been building and evolving …
I really like this post by Nathan Curtis where he discusses how buttons can be applied to a design system:
…I love buttons. I can do things with buttons. Take a next step. Make a commitment. Get things done.
You write CSS. Probably a lot of CSS. And you make mistakes. Probably a lot of mistakes. Somebody needs to stop you from making mistakes in your CSS.
Sometimes your mistake is a real bug. Sometimes it’s just sloppy, inconsistent, …
Kitty Giraudel writes up why he created iframify, a script which grabs a DOM node and wraps it in an
<iframe></code>. It’s a nifty tool for displaying components in a style guide at a certain width and effectively faking
