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Designing for Cognitive Success

These core functions support higher-order executive functions like reasoning, problem-solving, and planning. In this analysis, we focus primarily on the three core functions, as these represent the foundational cognitive processes underlying how people interact with technology.

Understanding Hierarchy in Design

Visual hierarchy plays an important role in creating designs that are not just beautiful but also functional. Without the right balance of size, color, and spacing, a design will become cluttered, confusing, and chaotic.

CSS wrapped 2024

Cross-document view transitions and scroll-driven animations let you add more interactivity to your applications with a few lines of CSS. You can now animate to height: auto;, style scrollbars, and size text inputs to their contents.

Feeling Stuck as a Web Designer? Read This!

I’m writing this story recovering from burnout and a mild cold, which is a terrible combination. But you didn’t come to hear about my cold so let’s dive into the article.

News Pinterest Predicts Design Trends for 2025

Pinterest’s 2025 trend forecast highlights bold, nostalgic, and sustainable aesthetics set to shape digital design and branding. From Rococo-inspired elegance to mood-driven color schemes, these trends provide fresh opportunities for creating impactful, audience-focused experiences.

Website Inpiration

Tons of tasty component designs throughout this One Pager for Granola AI notepad.

When and How to Go Off-Grid in Design

Designers are encouraged to follow the rules and use grids to create well-structured and “effective” designs. However, this also puts restraints on creativity.

What we shipped

Every update in Figma is created in dialogue with our community—how you work and what you create pushes us to make Figma better for you.

Understanding Graceful Degradation: A Pillar of Accessible Design

Few things are as frustrating to a user as when a site won’t respond. Unfortunately, it’s also an all-too-common scenario. Many websites and apps depend on so many elements that one of any number of errors could cause the whole thing to fail.

Rethinking Layout For Scalability

When we embarked on our journey with Base we were excited by the challenge of supporting diverse platforms — from Base Mobile to Base Web. Each platform came with its own set of native components and frameworks, and our ambitious goal was to unify them under a single, seamless system.

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