Design

Paul Smith made these Classic Mac OS System 1 Patterns, which are super tiny (in size) graphics that work with background-repeat to make old school “textures”. They have an awfully nostalgic look for me, but they are so simple I can see them being useful in modern designs as well.

When people complain about Photoshop or other various Adobe products and the subscription model they require (The Onion had a good one), people tend to reply with two options: But now, Affinity is free (and all the varieties combined into one app). You can thank the Canva acquisition for that. You might think that would […]

When you’ve got two buttons with two different looks (and no cursor), how do you know which one you’re about to activate? You’ll need to be careful with the design.

(Only Safari Technical Preview!)

Awfully cool `random()` is coming in CSS. The design possibilities are quite cool.

The web platform has a heaping helping of more design capability built into it than any design software does.

The whole point of auto-fit and auto-fill is that you aren’t saying how many columns to use. But if you knew how many the browser chose, you can make nice design decisions.

A very interesting aspect of the AI smashing its way into every software product known to man, is how it’s integrated. What does it look like? What does it do? Are we allowed to control it? UX patterns are evolving around this. In coding tools, I’ve felt the bar being turned up on “anticipate what […]

The fourth issue of The HTML Review is out. Wonderful writing framed by entirely different and unusual interactive interfaces, brought to you by the power of web technology. A zine come to life. Just try to pick a favorite.

Amelia Wattenberger asks in a wonderful blog post wondering about more human interfaces: Can we build something richer—something that moves with us, speaks our language, and molds to our bodies?