As the new year begins, I often find myself in a strange place — reflecting back at the previous year or looking forward to the year ahead. And as I speak with colleagues and friends at the time, it typically doesn’t take long for a conversation about career trajectory to emerge. So I thought I’d […]
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AI search is reshaping first impressions. Discover why websites matter less, how zero-click search influences brand perception, and what strategies win in 2026. Continue reading How First Impressions Now Happen Inside Google’s AI on SitePoint.
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What if your favorite brand could change its logo, colors, and voice in real time — just for you? Generative branding is turning static identities into living, adaptive systems that evolve with context, mood, and audience. It’s the biggest shift in design since the logo itself — and it’s rewriting what “brand consistency” even means.
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This article is a sponsored by Penpot Imagine that your Penpot file contains a full icon set in addition to the design itself, which uses some but not all of those icons. If you were to ask an AI such as Claude or Gemini to export only the icons that are being used, it wouldn’t
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Now, I know what you’re thinking. Yet another CSS pseudo-class… But I think this suggestion is rather cool. Earlier this year, it was proposed to add a new pseudo-class, :drag, that would enable developers to apply styles when an element is being actively dragged by the user. Currently, CSS lacks a mechanism to detect drag interactions,
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Has work felt “different” to you? You show up, do your work, fix what needs fixing, and get the job done, but the excitement isn’t quite the same anymore. Maybe the work has become too routine, or maybe you’ve grown in a way your role hasn’t kept up with. You catch yourself thinking, “I’ve been
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The next frontier of UX isn’t making everything smoother—it’s making it smarter. Designers who learn to shape friction, not just remove it, will create products that not only work efficiently but also think with us.
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Avoid common Terraform multi-environment pitfalls. Practical strategies for managing dev, staging, and production infrastructure with separate state files and modules. Continue reading Managing Infrastructure Across Multiple Environments on SitePoint.
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Learn about touch target accessibility standards and WCAG guidelines. Discover why 24x24px or 44x44px targets improve usability for all users with code examples. Continue reading Touch Targets and Web Accessibility on SitePoint.
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2026 is almost upon us. I know we’re all itching to see the clock strike midnight (cue The Final Countdown by Europe), but not without recapping the best CSS-related things that happened over the last two weeks! Conditional view transitions Chris Coyier showed us how to trigger different view transitions based on the URL (or
