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SnapDOM demo gallery

A fast, dependency-free DOM capture library that converts HTML elements to SVG or images with full style, font, and pseudo-element support.

View Transitions Applied

Smoothly animating a border-radius with a View Transition, revisited

itter.sh

A terminal-based microblogging platform accessed via SSH — no browser, just pure text, hashtags, and eets.

Jitter

Jitter makes motion accessible to every designer, enabling creative teams to collaborate on and deliver engaging animations in record time.

Still Jobless

A UX designer without a team is just a sad wireframe.

Eventbrite invited us to build a new visual and verbal identity for their global events marketplace. We were excited to jump in and bring our POV to the entire Eventbrite ecosystem — from tone of voice to logo, from photography to typography, from top to bottom.

tinygradient

simple gradient generator

Little JS

A lightweight JavaScript game engine with a fast hybrid rendering system. It provides everything necessary to make amazing games, including rendering, physics, particles, sound effects, music, input handling, and debug tools.

How to streamline your design system workflow in Figma

If you’ve ever stared down a blank Figma file while building a new design system, never fear: These new features and plugins will turn that mountain of work into an afternoon task.

EMAIL Accessibility Report 2025

Accessibility in HTML emails remains critically under-addressed in 2025.

The Psychology of Fonts: How Typography Shapes Brand Perception

Fonts do more than convey words—they tell stories, trigger emotions, and help shape how people perceive a brand.

Understanding the :root Selector and CSS Variables in CSS3

Master the power of CSS3's :root selector to simplify global styling, boost maintainability, and unlock dynamic, responsive designs.

The designer’s handbook for developer handoff

A tactical guide to collaborating with your developer counterparts, including common pitfalls, practical tips, and guidance on when to lean in.

LibreChat

LibreChat is the ultimate open-source app for all your AI conversations, fully customizable and compatible with any AI provider — all in one sleek interface

Mithril.js

Mithril.js is a modern client-side JavaScript framework for building Single Page Applications. It's small (8.9 KiB gzip), fast and provides routing and XHR utilities out of the box.

Is the button focusable?

Let’s play a game. I’ll hide a button using different techniques in HTML and CSS, and you have to guess whether it’s still focusable.

Custom Property Fallbacks

Look at this CSS and take a guess what color our text will be. No tricks, this is the only relevant code:

Why Do We Have a Cache-Control Request Header?

As developers, we’re most used to Cache-Control as the preferred way of instructing caches (usually browsers) on how they should store responses (if at all), and what to do once their cache lifetime is up.

Cool native HTML elements you should already be using

If this article helps just a single developer avoid an unnecessary Javascript dependency, I’ll be happy. Native HTML can handle plenty of features that people typically jump straight to JS for (or otherwise over-complicate).

Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS

Drawing separator lines between various sections of a webpage is a common design technique, which can help to structure the content and make it more readable, as well as more aesthetically pleasing. As we’ll see in this article, there are techniques you can use today...

CSS Animation with offset-path

This is from last year when I tried to recreate Rach Smith's P5.js animation using CSS. The animation seemed like it could be implemented in a breeze, but there's an illusion of simplicity. The process of manually updating the positions and directions of each box was...

Grid First, Flex Third

I’ve been mulling this topic for months now, and I’m pretty firmly of the opinion if you are attempting to do some layout in CSS, you should reach for display:grid first, followed by display:block, followed by display:flex. Grid allows the layout element to be in...

Expanding CSS Shadow Effects

Design principles tell us a shadow is conveys that light is hiding an object, which casts the shadow behind it, giving us a sense of depth. However, if that’s all a shadow is ever used for, then it has not been utilized to its full potential.

Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders

Here’s a CSS technique that produces blurry image placeholders (LQIPs) without cluttering up your markup — Only a single custom property needed!

Extending the cursor

The cursor has transformed from a simple pointing device into a powerful tool for enhancing user interaction and providing contextual feedback. Software and games are raising the bar for what the cursor interface can do, demonstrating how thoughtful extensions of a...

Full-Bleed Layout with Modern CSS

I recently shared a trick on how to create a Full-bleed layout using a few lines of modern CSS code. If you are unfamiliar with such layout see the demo below. In this article we’ll dig deeper into the idea and explain things as we go.