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There Is No Design System

Ooh, clickbaity title. Why on earth would I, a self-proclaimed “design systems advocate”, say there is no design system?

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Z's Still Not Dead Baby, Z's Still Not Dead

Andy Clarke digs deep into snow to find ways flat design can be brought back to life in CSS with the use of techniques to create a sense of depth.

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A History of CSS Through Fifteen Years of 24 ways

Rachel Andrew guides us through a tour of the last fifteen years in CSS layout, as manifested in articles here on 24 ways.

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Interactivity and Animation with Variable Fonts

Mandy Michael turns the corner on our variable font adventure and stumbles into a grotto of wonder and amazement.

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Iconography of Security

How the messages we send through iconography design can impact the decisions users make around important issues of security.

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Twelve Days of Front End Testing

Amy Kapernick sings us through numerous ways of improving the robustness and reliability of our front end code.

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Making a Better Custom Select Element

Julie Grundy kicks off this, our fifteenth year, by diving headlong into the snowy issue of customising form inputs.

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Designing Your Site Like It's 1998

Andy Clarke tells a tale as old as time, a tale of tables, framesets, fixed widths and spacer GIFs (ask your parents).

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Securing Your Site like It's 1999

Katie Fenn opens the door on our 2018 season by transporting us back to the turn of the century when new lessons were being learned about security.

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Cascading Web Design with Feature Queries

Chen Hui Jing pulls off the dust covers, swings open the storm shutters and lets the winter light fall on the subject of CSS feature queries.

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Animation in Design Systems

Sarah Drasner drops down on the sofa, turns on the TV and puts on some Christmas classics. Yes, it's time to talk animation, and not just any animation, but how you prescribe and document animation in your design systems. Perhaps you'll be moved to make some changes.

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Solve the Hard Problems

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Blow Your Own Trumpet

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How Tabs Should Work

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Grid, Flexbox, Box Alignment: Our New System for Layout

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Beyond the Style Guide

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Beyond the Style Guide

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What I Learned about Product Design This Year

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Designing with Contrast

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Putting My Patterns through Their Paces