No design exists in isolation. As designers, we often imagine specific situations in which people will use our product. It might be indeed quite common — but there will also be other — urgent, frustrating, stressful situations. And they are the ones that we rarely account for. So how do we account for such situations? […]
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Sketch is getting a massive UI overhaul, codenamed Copenhagen: Our latest update — Copenhagen — features a major redesign of Sketch’s UI. Redesigns like this don’t happen often. In fact, our last one was in 2020, when Apple launched macOS Big Sur. Makes a lot of sense for an app that’s so tightly integrated to Mac to
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Learn how Glassmorphism and Voice User Interface (VUI) work together to create immersive, futuristic websites. Explore design trends, benefits, and best practices for modern web UX. Continue reading How Glassmorphism and Voice UI are Redefining Website UX on SitePoint.
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Microcopy is supposed to guide users—but let’s be real, half the time it’s gaslighting us. From cheery cookie banners that secretly rob your data to “Oops!” error messages that tell you nothing, these tiny words are the web’s most manipulative tool. Designers call it *delight*, but users know it’s just UX in a clown suit.
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Picture this: you join a new project, dive into the codebase, and within the first few hours, you discover something frustratingly familiar. Scattered throughout the stylesheets, you find multiple @keyframes definitions for the same basic animations. Three different fade-in effects, two or three slide variations, a handful of zoom animations, and at least two different
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For the past few months, I’ve been writing a lot of entries on pseudo-selectors in CSS, like ::picker() or ::checkmark. And, in the process, I noticed I tend to use the :open pseudo-selector a lot in my examples — and in my work in general. Borrowing words from the fine author of the :open entry in the Almanac: The CSS :open pseudo-selector targets
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Discover how manufacturing software serves as the digital backbone of modern factories, from unified data architecture to AI-powered planning and real-time monitoring. Continue reading How Manufacturing Process Software Actually Works on SitePoint.
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Web design is still clinging to its graphic design roots, but AI doesn’t care about grids or poster aesthetics—it cares about adaptability and performance. To stay relevant, designers need to cut the cord and embrace a future built on systems, outcomes, and generative design.
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This article is a sponsored by Cloudways If you build or manage websites for a living, you know the feeling. Your day is a constant juggle; one moment you’re fine-tuning a design, the next you’re troubleshooting a slow server or a mysterious error. Daily management of a complex web of plugins, integrations, and performance tools
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This is a series! It all started a couple of articles ago, when we found out that, according to the State of CSS 2025 survey, trigonometric functions were the “Most Hated” CSS feature. I’ve been trying to change that perspective, so I showcased several uses for trigonometric functions in CSS: one for sin() and cos() and another on tan(). However, that’s only half of what
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