Abstractions
This post talks about a generative system called Physarum model, which simulates the evolution of a colony of extremely simple organisms.
Thursday08/13
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Experts weigh in on the Biden-Harris logo
A new logo for a brand that will last three months—but will have a lifetime of importance.
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Web History Chapter 2: Browsers
Dennis Ritchie had a problem. He was working on a new, world class operating system.
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Enhancing User Experience With CSS Animations
How to build CSS animations and transitions in your interfaces that are inclusive, accesible and will enhance your users’ experience.
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Our new home for Atlassian Design System
The Atlassian Design System Team is pleased to announce that our new home for Atlassian Design System is now live at atlassian.design.
Wednesday08/12
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The Step-by-Step Guide for Pairing Fonts
I’m going to cut through the crap and give you a step-by-step plan for creating beautiful, professional-quality font pairings.
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Summer Top 15 — Figma stuff released recently
Handpicked collection of the newest templates for Figma: UI kits, UX tools, design systems, icons, illustrations and more.
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Brazilians Who Design
A repository to celebrate the work of talented Brazilian designers and showcase it to the world.
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PDF: Still Unfit for Human Consumption, 20 Years Later
Research spanning 20 years proves PDFs are problematic for online reading.
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Supercharging <input type=number>
How to supercharge your <input type=number> so users can increment or decrement by 1, 10, 100 or 0.1 by pressing modifier keys.
Tuesday08/11
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Styled Components: A Quick Start Guide
Start practicing styled-components today with this short, actionable guide.
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YouTube Studio App Redesign - UI Case Study
Almost a year back I started posting videos on YouTube and ever since the journey has been incredible.
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Pablo Stanley on life as a remote designer
We caught up with Pablo to talk about life as a remote designer, making your side project your day job, and why everyone loves illustrations.
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What Happens to Viral Particles on the Subway
Many New Yorkers are avoiding the subway, fearful of jostling with strangers in crowded cars.
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CSS Mistakes While On Autopilot
When we’re very focused on working on a web project, we tend to forget or do some mistakes that can lead to an invalid CSS code.
Monday08/10
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FAST: The adaptive interface system for modern web experiences
Interfaces built with FAST adapt to your design system and can be used with any modern UI Framework by leveraging industry standard Web Components.
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The 6 wildest design concepts for a virtual Democratic National Convention
Designers share their vision for the first (nearly-all) virtual Democratic National Convention. Biden, time to fire up Twitch!
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Optimizing CSS for faster page loads
Learn how CSS affects page load times and how you can improve it by optimizing your CSS build pipeline and the way you load it.
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The New York Times and National Geographic win the Endesa Best of Show Award
In this edition, 162 media outlets from 34 different countries have sent in their works.
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Figma components with a fixed aspect ratio elements
Before Figma Auto Layout our days were dark and full of horror.
Friday08/07
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content-visibility: the new CSS property that boosts your rendering performance
The CSS content-visibility property enables web content rendering performance benefits by skipping rendering of off-screen content.
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UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #9
A fresh set of inspirational UI interactions and animations from the past couple of weeks.
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Digging Into the Flex Property
Have you ever wondered about how the CSS flex property works?
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Generative Logo Design
When we first set out to design a logo for Components AI, we naturally gravitated towards generative concepts.
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Behind the feature: shedding light on shadow spread
An engineer’s journey making hard decisions about (seemingly) simple feature requests
Thursday08/06
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Web History Chapter 1: Birth
Tim Berners-Lee is fascinated with information. It has been his life’s work.
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Rambly - The Audioconference App To Walk And Talk With Friends
Rambly is a virtual space for events like happy hours, parties, and meetups.
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Drop-Shadow: The Underrated CSS Filter
If you’re familiar with CSS, you probably know all about the box-shadow property.
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NASA’s ‘worm’ logo lay dormant for 28 years.
So why are people so obsessed with it?
Wednesday08/05
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Fuse - Interesting Internet
A growing collection of creative reference and entertainment.
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Future Thieving #2 — Speculative design methods and tools
Combining science fiction world-building techniques with design to discover unseen potential futures.
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A Lightweight Masonry Solution
Back in May, I learned about Firefox adding masonry to CSS grid.
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Proximity Principle in Visual Design
Design elements near each other are perceived as related, while elements spaced apart are perceived as belonging to separate groups.
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