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Getting design system customization just right

29.7.2019
I had a little rant in me a few months ago about design systems: "Who Are Design Systems For?" My main point was that there are so many public and open source ones out there that choosing one can feel like choosing new furniture for your house. You just measure up what you need and what you like...

The “Inside” Problem

20.5.2019
So, you're working on a design. You need a full-width container element because the design has a background-color that goes from edge-to-edge horizontally. But the content inside doesn’t necessarily need to be edge-to-edge. You want to: Limit the width (for large screens) Pad the edges Center...

Oh, the Many Ways to Make Triangular Breadcrumb Ribbons!

29.4.2019
Oh, the Many Ways to Make Triangular Breadcrumb Ribbons Let’s have a look at how we can create a row of links that sorta run into each other with a chevron-like shape and notch on each block like you might see in a hierarchical breadcrumb navigation. You’ve probably seen this pattern a lot....

Who Are Design Systems For?

23.4.2019
Specific design systems, I mean. Design systems, as a concept, are something just about any site can benefit from. A lot of hype goes into design systems these days. Just the other day, an organization's published their design system publicly and I got a slew of DMs, emails, and Slack messages...

Did you know that CSS Custom Properties can handle images too?

27.2.2019
So you might be aware of CSS Custom Properties that let you set a variable, such as a theme color, and then apply it to multiple classes like this: :root { --theme: #777; } .alert { background: var(—-theme); } .button { background: var(—-theme); } Well, I had seen this pattern so often...

The ineffectiveness of lonely icons

11.2.2019
Icons are great and all, but as we've been shown time and time again, they often don't do the job all by themselves. Even if you do a good job with the accessibility part and make sure there is accompanying text there for assistive technology, in an ironic twist, you might be confusing people...

Putting the Flexbox Albatross to Real Use

24.1.2019
If you hadn't seen it, Heydon posted a rather clever flexbox layout pattern that, in a sense, mimics what you could do with a container query by forcing an element to stack at a certain container width. I was particularly interested, as I was fighting a little layout situation at the time I...

STAR Apps: A New Generation of Front-End Tooling for Development Workflows

18.1.2019
Product teams from AirBnb and New York Times to Shopify and Artsy (among many others) are converging on a new set of best practices and technologies for building the web apps that their businesses depend on. This trend reflects core principles and solve underlying problems that we may share, so...

Create your own Serverless API

16.7.2018
If you don’t already know of it, Todd Motto has this great list of public APIs. It’s awesome if you’re trying out a new framework or new layout pattern and want to hit the ground running without fussing with the content. But what if you want or need to make your own API? Serverless can help create...

Collective #429

2.7.2018
Shotsnapp * fakeScroll * SVG Pattern Doodler * Singlie * Generative WorldCup * Scrolling Gradient * ChartGen * React From Zero Collective #429 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops

Learning Gutenberg: Building Our Custom Card Block

25.5.2018
We’ve got some base knowledge, we’ve played with some React and now we’ve got our project tools set up. Let’s dive into building our custom block. Article Series: Series Introduction What is Gutenberg, Anyway? A Primer with create-guten-block Modern...

Unicode Patterns

18.5.2018
These Unicode patterns by Yuan Chuan are extraordinarily clever. It's a <css-doodle> custom web component that sets up a CSS grid and randomizes what character to drop into a cell and things, like color. See all their gorgeous work on CodePen and the very cool <css-doodle> website...

Container-Adapting Tabs With “More” Button

2.5.2018
Or the priority navigation pattern, or progressively collapsing navigation menu. We can name it in at least three ways. There are multiple UX solutions for tabs and menus and each of them have their own advantages over another, you just need to pick the best for the case you are trying to solve....

Solved With CSS! Dropdown Menus

1.5.2018
A common UI pattern that we see on the web are dropdown menus. They’re used to display related information in pieces, without overwhelming the user with buttons, text, and options. Somewhere that we see these a lot is inside of headers or navigation areas on websites. Let’s see if we can make...

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