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Dark Mode and Accessibility: Finding the Right Balance
It didn’t take long for the “dark mode” to become a requirement for every user interface design. What started out as a design trend turned into a must-have feature for offering a comfortable user experience.
A CSS-Only Star Rating Component and More!
Creating a star rating component is a classic exercise in web development. It has been done and re-done many times using different techniques. We usually need a small amount of JavaScript to pull it together, but what about a CSS-only implementation? Yes, it is...
Truth, Lies and Progress Bars
Very early in my career, I found myself on a design team tasked with improving some legacy security software. At one point, we were evaluating a setup screen that included a progress bar. I asked a member of the engineering team, “How is progress calculated?”
Design tips for startups
We worked on our first startup idea for over a year and completely failed. We never got real users. So a few months ago, we decided to pivot to Vigilant. When we did that, we had to build a new product from scratch. Restarting was humbling and depressing.
Your Life in Weeks
Create a map of your life where each week is a little box.
Pantone COTY 2025
For 2025, the Pantone Color Institute selects PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse, a warming, brown hue imbued with richness. It nurtures us with its suggestion of the delectable qualities of chocolate and coffee, answering our desire for comfort.
Geist
Geist embodies our design principles of simplicity, minimalism, and speed, drawing inspiration from the renowned Swiss design movement. With precision, clarity, and functionality at its core, Geist enhances the visual experience of developers...
Relative Colors
Over the years, we have been used to using CSS pre-processors like Sass for a use case like applying opacity to a pre-defined color. Today, we have a new way to do that and more with CSS relative colors. In this article, I aim to shed the light on that and introduce...
Screenity
A screen recorder that's free, private, and friendly With Screenity you can relax. No time limits, an easy interface, and awesome features.
Omatsuri
Open source browser tools for everyday use
SVG Repo
500.000+ Open-licensed SVG Vector and Icons Search, explore and edit the best-fitting free icons or vectors for your projects using a wide variety vector library. Download free SVG vectors and icons for commercial use.
Quick Reference
Here are some cheatsheets and quick references contributed by open source angels.
Full-Bleed Layout with Modern CSS
Cool, right? Not only have we created a full-bleed layout with compact code but we can easily adjust it to control the margin behavior of the elements. Can you think of other variations? I am sure we could tweak the formulas to have other useful and interesting...
Should navigation bars be sticky or fixed?
Like most UX design decisions, choosing the best type of navigation isn’t a one-size-fits-all verdict. It depends on your digital product, target users, and UX goals.
VIET GD
A casual index, archive, and celebration of Vietnamese graphic design. Currently, there are 274 objects in this collection.
How To Use Chrome’s Developer Tools
This article provides an introduction to Chrome DevTools and then takes a look at some more advanced features.
tinygradient
Easily generate color gradients with an unlimited number of color stops and steps.
State of React 2024
Instead, React 19 focused on taking a lot of our pain away, from making forwardRef obsolete, to diffs for hydration errors, to a new compiler that makes our code more performant with minimal extra work on our part.
Flexbox bulider
Build 'em yay
Chuck Norris red
Setting the colour of text on a webpage is usually a simple affair involving whipping it out the good ol' CSS color property. But this is HTMHell, dammit. None of that wishy-washy CSS nonsense here. No siree. We use HTML as the good lord intended and shalln't stray...
Hero Patterns
A collection of repeatable SVG background patterns for you to use on your web projects.
postspark.app
Take slick screenshots and product image grabs.
Every HTML element
There are over a hundred HTML elements. This page uses all of them. You're looking at <p></p> right now.
Optimizing Images for Web Performance
Images make websites look great, but they’re also the biggest performance bottleneck. They add huge file sizes, delay Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and can even mess with Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) if they aren’t handled properly. And while developers are quick...
How to Retain Customers, When AI is Pushing Them to Competitors
You don’t just lose customers to price—you lose them to hesitation.
Build for the Web, Build on the Web, Build with the Web
If you’re going to go all-in on a framework or, heaven forbid, an SPA, give the long term some serious consideration, and make sure you do a really, really good job.
litur
A color picker for the real world. Find, collect and organize all the colors around you.A designer’s best-kept secret, a developer's best friend.
Understanding Accessibility.
Accessibility should be at the core of web design. Colour, typography, animations and images need to be applied according to certain rules so that information can be digested easily. Designers need to understand how people with (and without) disabilities...
untools
Thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.
Figcomponents.com
We've curated the best Figma components in one place. Discover, copy and paste UI components in Figma with the most efficient way to build designs. Get all the essentials for any design project in one place. From buttons to data visualizations, you'll find the perfect...
Logoipsum
117 free placeholder logos
Landing Pages Explained
The only collection of leading SaaS and creator landing pages with expert explanations of the ideas used to increase conversion
Website hero section library
Curated collection of beautiful website hero sections.
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.
Dark Mode and Accessibility: Finding the Right Balance
It didn’t take long for the “dark mode” to become a requirement for every user interface design. What started out as a design trend turned into a must-have feature for offering a comfortable user experience.
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Is Graphic Design Dead?
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Why Some Clients Think They Know Design (And How to Keep the Project on Track)
Ever wonder why some clients over-explain or dodge your questions? Learn how to navigate unclear client communication and keep your design projects on track with practical, experience-based strategies.