Once upon a time, CSS was purely presentational. It imperatively handled the fonts, colors, backgrounds, spacing, and layouts, among other styles, for markup languages. It was a language for looks, doing what it was asked to, never thinking or making decisions. At least, that was what it was made for when Håkon Wium Lie proposed […]
CSS Intelligence: Speculating On The Future Of A Smarter Language Read More »
The web isn’t dying because of AI—it’s drowning in a sea of templates. Platforms like Squarespace, Wix, and Shopify have made building a site easier than ever—but at the cost of creativity, originality, and soul. If every website looks the same, does design even matter anymore?
AI Didn’t Kill Web Design —Templates Did It First Read More »
Four years ago, I wrote an article titled Minding the “gap”, where I talked about the CSS gap property, where it applied, and how it worked with various CSS layouts. At the time, I described how easy it was to evenly space items out in a flex, grid, or multi-column layout, by using the gap
The Gap Strikes Back: Now Stylable Read More »
This article is a sponsored by Lyssna We’ve all been there: you pour your heart and soul into conducting meticulous user research. You gather insightful data, create detailed reports, and confidently deliver your findings. Yet, months later, little has changed. Your research sits idle on someone’s desk, gathering digital dust. It feels frustrating, like carefully
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Adam Wathan has (very cleverly) built Tailwind with CSS Cascade Layers, making it extremely powerful for organizing styles by priority. @layer theme, base, components, utilities; @import ‘tailwindcss/theme.css’ layer(theme); @import ‘tailwindcss/utilities.css’ layer(utilities); The core of Tailwind are its utilities. This means you have two choices: The default choice The unorthodox choice The default choice The default
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For many of us, July is the epitome of summer. The time for spending every free minute outside to enjoy the sun and those seemingly endless summer days, whether it’s in a nearby park, by a lake, or on a trip exploring new places. So why not bring a bit of that summer joy to
Never Stop Exploring (July 2025 Wallpapers Edition) Read More »
Designers, your gorgeous layout might be silently sabotaging your site—**if it shifts mid-scroll, it’s not elegant, it’s broken.** CLS isn’t just a dev metric—it’s the UX red flag your users feel *before* they bounce.
CLS Is the New Page Speed: Why Designers Need to Care More Than Developers Read More »
Blob, Blob, Blob. You hate them. You love them. Personally, as a design illiterate, I like to overuse them… a lot. And when you repeat the same process over and over again, it’s only a question of how much you can optimize it, or in this case, what’s the easiest way to create blobs in
Hero images are the web’s prettiest dead weight—slow, vague, and visually overused. It’s time to stop decorating your homepage and start saying something that actually matters.
Stop Using Hero Images! They’re Killing Your UX Read More »
KelpUI is new library that Chris Ferdinandi is developing, designed to leverage newer CSS features and Web Components. I’ve enjoyed following Chris as he’s published an ongoing series of articles detailing his thought process behind the library, getting deep into his approach. You really get a clear picture of his strategy and I love it.
