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Popular Design News of the Week: November 15, 2021 – November 21, 2021
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Reimagine Atomic CSS
I’m not the biggest fan of Atomic CSS myself. I don’t like all the classes. I like to express my styles in CSS because I find CSS… good. But I appreciate that a lot of people seem to like it, and it does have some clear advantages, like the fact that the generated stylesheet is generally smaller tha..
Coding Font Game
A tournament bracket UI where you pick your favorite between two coding fonts and your choices are whittled down all the way to a final winner. A clever way to suss out your own taste and arrive at a choice.
(P.S. We have our own little coding fonts website to showcase some high-quality favorites.)..
Parallax Powered by CSS Custom Properties
Good friend Kent C. Dodds has recently dropped his new website which had a lot of work go into it. I was fortunate enough that Kent reached out a while back and asked if I could come up with some “whimsy” for the site. ✨
One of the first things that drew my attention was the large image of Kody (🐨)..
Creative Problem Solving for UX Designers
It’s normal to pull up sharp in front of a problem; after all, if there was a known solution, it wouldn’t be a problem. But knowing that it’s normal, doesn’t make encountering problems any less frustrating. So how do we avoid sitting in front of a UX problem for hours, achieving nothing?
That’s wha..
Weekly News for Designers № 619
UI cheat sheet: Accordions – There are more to accordions than meets the eye. This guide will show you everything you need to know.
Free Practical Guide to Web Animation – The guide introduces web animation techniques with examples and tips on how to use them.
The 40 Best Free Bootstrap 5 Template..
The Many Faces of VS Code in the Browser
VS Code is built from web technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript), but dare I say today it’s mostly used a local app that’s installed on your machine. That’s starting to shift, though, as there has been an absolute explosion of places VS Code is becoming available to use on the web. I’d say it’s ki..
PHP Date and Time Recipes
Dealing with dates and times is one of those things that can frustrate programmers a lot. At the same time, they are fundamental to software development, used from everything from meta and how things are ordered to time-based triggers and lots in between.
Dates and times are prone to errors too. Ha..
Zero Trickery Custom Radios and Checkboxes
I feel like half of all “custom-designed radio buttons and checkboxes” do two things:
Make them biggerColorize them
I always think of SurveyMonkey for having big chunky radios and checkboxes. And indeed, just poking at their interface quickly, even internally, the app uses has those all over the p..
What do you get for using a search input type?
Like this:
You get an extra-round-y appearance in Safari, which at one time matched the macOS look for search inputs, but not really anymore. I don’t hate the look, except…Safari totally ignores the font-size you set on it, so careful about that. Unless you smash off the round..
