Taking RWD To The Extreme
When Ethan Marcotte conceived RWD, web technologies were far less mature than today. As web developers, we started to grasp how to do things with floats after years of stuffing everything inside table cells. There weren’t many possible ways to achieve a responsive site. There were two of them: fluid grids (based on percentages) and […]
Integrations: From Simple Data Transfer To Modern Composable Architectures
This article is a sponsored by Storyblok When computers first started talking to each other, the methods were remarkably simple. In the early days of the Internet, systems exchanged files via FTP or communicated via raw TCP/IP sockets. This direct approach worked well for simple use cases but quickly showed its limitations as applications grew […]
Look Closer, Inspiration Lies Everywhere (February 2025 Wallpapers Edition)
As designers, we are always on the lookout for some fresh inspiration, and well, sometimes, the best inspiration lies right in front of us. With that in mind, we embarked on our wallpapers adventure more than thirteen years ago. The idea: to provide you with a new batch of beautiful and inspiring desktop wallpapers every […]
The Digital Playbook: A Crucial Counterpart To Your Design System
I recently wrote for Smashing Magazine about how UX leaders face increasing pressure to deliver more with limited resources. Let me show you how a digital playbook can help meet this challenge by enhancing our work’s visibility while boosting efficiency. While a design system ensures visual coherence, a digital playbook lays out the strategic and […]
Transitioning Top-Layer Entries And The Display Property In CSS
Animating from and to display: none; was something we could only achieve with JavaScript to change classes or create other hacks. The reason why we couldn’t do this in CSS is explained in the new CSS Transitions Level 2 specification: “In Level 1 of this specification, transitions can only start during a style change event […]
Svelte 5 And The Future Of Frameworks: A Chat With Rich Harris
Svelte occupies a curious space within the web development world. It’s been around in one form or another for eight years now, and despite being used by the likes of Apple, Spotify, IKEA, and the New York Times, it still feels like something of an upstart, maybe even a black sheep. As creator Rich Harris […]
Navigating The Challenges Of Modern Open-Source Authoring: Lessons Learned
This article is a sponsored by Storyblok Open source is the backbone of modern software development. As someone deeply involved in both community-driven and company-driven open source, I’ve had the privilege of experiencing its diverse approaches firsthand. This article dives into what modern OSS (Open Source) authoring looks like, focusing on front-end JavaScript libraries such […]
Side Project Time – An Ode
There seemed to be a hot minute when the tech industry understood the value of idle tinkering and made a point of providing ‘side project time’ as an explicit working perk. The concept endures — I’m lucky enough to work somewhere that has it — but it seems to have been outpaced in recent years […]
On-Device AI: Building Smarter, Faster, And Private Applications
It’s not too far-fetched to say AI is a pretty handy tool that we all rely on for everyday tasks. It handles tasks like recognizing faces, understanding or cloning speech, analyzing large data, and creating personalized app experiences, such as music playlists based on your listening habits or workout plans matched to your progress. But […]
The Role Of Illustration Style In Visual Storytelling
Role Of Illustration has been used for 10,000 years. One of the first ever recorded drawings was of a hand silhouette found in Spain, that is more than 66,000 years old. Fast forward to the introduction of the internet, around 1997, illustration has gradually increased in use. Popular examples of this are Google’s daily doodles […]