The Proliferation and Problem of the ✨ Sparkles ✨ Icon
3.10.2024
Kate Kaplan hits on something over at Nielsen Norman Group’s blog that’s been bugging me:
The challenge with this icon is sparkle ambiguity: Participants in our recent research study generally agreed that it represented something a little special
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The Proliferation...
CSS Anchor Positioning Guide
2.10.2024
Learn about CSS Anchor Positioning, including its syntax, properties, how it is used to position one element next to another, and even how it's used to resize elements relative to other elements.
CSS Anchor Positioning Guide originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean...
Case Study: Federico Pian Portfolio — 2024
2.10.2024
Learn how Federico Pian built his 2024 portfolio using Nuxt, GSAP, and TresJs, with insights into design inspiration, animation techniques, and seamless page transitions
Collective #868
1.10.2024
Fundamentals of Frontend Architecture * The already-here future of prototyping * The continuing tragedy of emoji on the web
CSS Masonry & CSS Grid
30.9.2024
An approach for creating masonry layouts in vanilla CSS is one of those “holy grail” aspirations. I actually tend to plop masonry and the classic “Holy Grail” layout in the same general era of web design. They’re different types of …
CSS Masonry & CSS Grid...
Slide Through Unlimited Dimensions With CSS Scroll Timelines
27.9.2024
The creator of CSS has said he originally envisaged CSS as the main web technology to control behavior on web pages, with scripting as a fallback when things weren’t possible declaratively in CSS. The rationale for a CSS-first approach was …
Slide Through Unlimited Dimensions With CSS Scroll...
Aggregating my distributed self
27.9.2024
Miriam Suzanne’s in the middle of a redesign of her personal website. It began in August 2022. She’s made an entire series out of the work that’s worth your time, but I wanted to call out the fifth and latest …
Aggregating my distributed self originally published...
A Selection of Creative Menu Patterns & Animations
27.9.2024
A selection of creative menu patterns and animations that highlight diverse design styles, offering fresh inspiration for your next project
Collective #867
27.9.2024
Animate to height: auto * Feedback needed: How should we define CSS masonry?
Catching Up on the WordPress ???? WP Engine Sitch
26.9.2024
Many of you — perhaps most of you — have been sitting on the sidelines while WordPress and WP Engine trade legal attacks on one another. It’s been widely covered as we watch it unfold in the open; ironically, in …
Catching Up on the WordPress 🚫 WP Engine Sitch originally...
BCD Watch
26.9.2024
A new tool from Eric Meyer, Brian Kardell, and Stephanie Stimac backed with Igalia’s support. Brian announced it on his blog, as did Eric, describing it like this:
What BCD Watch does is, it grabs releases of the Browser
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BCD Watch originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...
How to Make a “Scroll to Select” Form Control
25.9.2024
The <select> element is a fairly straightforward concept: focus on it to reveal a set of <option>s that can be selected as the input’s value. That’s a great pattern and I’m not suggesting we change it. That said, I …
How to Make a “Scroll to Select” Form...