Search
Print-Inspired Layout on the Web
18.12.2019
I always love seeing people get inspired by print design and trying to port it over to the web. There is a much deeper history of interesting print work to draw from, and still a ton of modern work happening that eclipses most digital design work today. The web is fully capable of bold, interesting...
Case Study: Portfolio of Bruno Arizio
18.12.2019
A look behind the scenes of Bruno Arizio's portfolio with insight into the design process and an in-depth technical breakdown of the WebGL implementation.
Case Study: Portfolio of Bruno Arizio was written by Bruno Arizio and published on Codrops
Design APIs: The Evolution of Design Systems
17.12.2019
A clever idea from Matthew Ström:
[...] design APIs don’t seem like a stretch of the imagination. An API-driven approach is the natural extension of the work currently being done on design systems, including tokens and standardization projects.
If you buy into the idea of design tokens, that...
Domain-Driven Design With React
16.12.2019
There is very little guidance on how to organize front-end applications in the world of React. (Just move files around until it “feels right,” lol). The truth is that we can do better. Let’s take a look at one pattern you might consider using to architect your site.
At first, you might split...
Most Central of All Banks Releases 12 Design Elements For a Wholesale Token
13.12.2019
The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), hosted by the central bank of central banks, the BIS, has released a report which informs developers and market participants how wholesale digital tokens might look like.
Today, wholesale payments between financial institutions...
Prohlížeč od Seznamu má upravený design a nové funkce. Inspiroval se u Opery
12.12.2019
Seznam aktualizoval svůj prohlížeč a přináší do něj několik novinek. Mezi ty hlavní patří upravený vzhled a nové funkce v boční panelu, kam se přestěhovala historie, oblíbené položky a další prvky. Změn se dočkala i mobilní verze.
Největší viditelnou změnou na počítačích je zřejmě pozměněný
WordPress.com: One CMS, Infinite Possibilities
11.12.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Have you ever looked at a site and knew exactly what CMS powers it? You might see a distinctive design aesthetic that gives it away. Or maybe it's something even less obvious and even harder to articulate, but you know it when you see it.
That seems true with just about...
Music and Web Design
9.12.2019
Brad has a long history in music outside of being a web designer, and draws some interesting parallels. One is that he had reached for more complex music in an effort to become a better musician — and developers can do the same thing. The other is that the composition of music can be seen...
A Handy Sass-Powered Tool for Making Balanced Color Palettes
9.12.2019
For those who may not come from a design background, selecting a color palette is often based on personal preferences. Choosing colors might be done with an online color tool, sampling from an image, "borrowing" from favorite brands, or just sort of randomly picking from a color wheel until...
Case Study: lynnandtonic.com 2019 refresh
6.12.2019
Lynn Fisher walks us step-by-step through the redesign process of her latest outstanding personal website. In this design, increasing the width of the browser window will cause the illustrations on the page crack to open and reveal more within them:
This case study reminded me that Lynn also has...
Auto Layout lands in Figma
5.12.2019
Here’s a fresh update to my favorite design tool that is thoroughly exciting: Auto layout! That means we can make frames that resize based on the size of the content within it. That's particularly useful for buttons in a design system where you want to drop a button on the page and then keep...
The New Klim Type Website is Impossibly Lovely
4.12.2019
I’ve spent the last hour hunched over the new Klim Type foundry website with my arms outstretched as if it was a fire in a very dark cave. Klim Type makes and sells wondrous fonts — like Tiempos, and National 2 or Pitch — and this fresh redesign now showcases them in all their glory. Here’s...
The Popeye Moment
25.11.2019
Frank Chimero is redesigning "in the open" and we should pay attention to it because (1) we should listen to anything Frank has to say because he's a great designer and writer and (2) working in public is awesome.
But the gut punch for me in this opening article is the way Frank pulls zero punches...
Collective #568
25.11.2019
Global Design Survey 2019 * HexaBeat * Creepyface * Design APIs: The Evolution of Design Systems * Print To CSS
Collective #568 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Smarter Design Systems Tools
22.11.2019
What has me really excited about building websites is largely around design systems and the design tools we use to build them. Though, design systems are certainly not limited to websites.
Closing the Gap
In the ever-so-hot-right-now world of design systems, one of the most common phrases people...
Embracing the Universal Web
21.11.2019
There are constantly new features appearing in browsers—from subgrid to variable fonts to better developer tools. It's a really great time to be re-thinking everything we know about design on the web. Responsive design has served us well over the years, but it's still rooted in the limitations...
1More Stylish Dual: cenově dostupné dvouměničové bezdrátové špunty [test]
21.11.2019
Za 1 800 Kč dostanete velmi dobrá lehká Bluetooth sluchátka, která nedělají ostudu ani vzhledem, ani zvukem. Dvouměničové špunty zvukově výborně mixují přesnost se zábavností. Stylový design nebije do očí, ale však ani tuctový. Jestli se smíříte s menší výdrží, tato lehká bezdrátová sluchátka můžou
Techniques for a Newspaper Layout with CSS Grid and Border Lines Between Elements
20.11.2019
I recently had to craft a newspaper-like design that featured multiple row and column spans with divider lines in between them. Take a look at the mockup graphic here and see if it makes you sweat at all. If you’re like me, you have been around a while and know just how difficult this would have...
Build your own React
20.11.2019
Wowza! Rodrigo Pombo’s article about how to build React from scratch is fantastic, not only because it’s well written, but because of the outstanding interaction design: each line in the code examples ge highlighted and explored in further detail as you scroll down the page.
This makes it super...
The Best Cocktail in Town
18.11.2019
I admit I've held in a lot of pent-up frustration about the direction web development has taken the past few years. There is the complexity. It requires a steep learning curve. It focuses more on more configuration than it does development.
That's not exactly great news for folks like me...