CSS has evolved from a purely presentational language into one with growing logical powers — thanks to features like container queries, relational pseudo-classes, and the if() function. Is it still just for styling, or is it becoming something more? Gabriel Shoyombo explores how smart CSS has become over the years, where it is heading, the challenges it addresses, whether it is becoming too complex, and how developers are reacting to this shift.
This website is a trip down memory lane. I’m not trying to tell you to stop modern web development. This website uses technologies not available at the time the content here is about. It works on mobile (tested in Firefox for Android) but you miss out on the background image.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been trying to make sense of Apple’s latest user-interface redesign — Apple calls it Liquid Glass — that will affect all their platforms in the next iteration of their respective OS versions. But it’s hard to make sense of it when, after checking Apple’s own guidance, I’m mostly left with the feeling that at Apple they’re making things up as they go.
So a big theme of this conversation is how to identify the right opportunities to design AI into a product that’s already working. Ioana shares a bunch of stories and lessons learned from her time at Miro as well as a refreshing perspective on AI and design as whole that i think will resonate with a lot of you.
It’s glossy. It’s bold… and controversial. A calm, inclusive look at Apple’s most radical UI shift.
From giant inflatable glyphs to welcoming soundscapes, Figma’s Brand Studio designed an immersive conference that celebrated the spirit of makership at every turn.
We’ve all been there. You find a stock graphic labeled “premium,” pay the extra fee, and then realize it still looks cheap in your design.
Transform your website from flat to flourishing with interactive animations that enhance user experience.
To be honest, I was a smidge skeptical. I know what a design token is. It’s a variable of a color or font-family or something. I pretty much only work on websites, so that exposes itself as a –custom-property and I already know that using those to abstract common usage of colors and fonts is smart and helpful. Done. I get that people managing a whole fleet of sites (and apps running in who-knows-what…
, Apple’s yearly developer conference where they reveal new platforms, technologies, and (most relevant here) design languages. During the presentation they released their newest iteration, dubbed Liquid Glass.
