You haven’t needed it. You’re a web designer and you’re focused largely on UI and UX. Your skills with design tools, HTML, CSS, and team communication have served you well. But you know what JavaScript is. It’s another part of the native web. It’s powerful. It can make websites do stuff beyond what HTML and CSS can do alone. You don’t even care to deeply learn JavaScript, you just want to get a ton of bang…

You Want border-color: transparent, Not border: none by Dave is a great reminder to not remove borders from components for accessibility reasons, especially to better support high contrast mode.

Whether you’re looking for a way to streamline your workflow or simply curious about the latest design tools, this roundup is for you. From color palette generators to complete design builders, this month’s roundup of the most exciting new tools for designers has something for everyone. Enjoy!

Crafting compelling design narratives requires precise tools and the right aesthetic. Start with our curated collection of fonts and typefaces designed to echo the unique style of stamp lettering.

The margin property of CSS is just a way to push other elements away. It’s very common and doesn’t feel particularly problematic. On the other hand… maybe it is?

Early on in the design, the need arose for a liquid three-column layout which featured two flexible outer columns and a fixed-width centre column, not a layout commonly seen implemented with CSS. I also wanted the centre column to be fixed in the browser window and so not move with the scroll.

In the design world, there’s an inconvenient truth that every product has a shelf life. Whatever product you’ve poured your heart into designing, there’s a time when that version will no longer be relevant. This end date is inevitable and based on many uncontrollable factors, such as technological advances, innovation, or evolving aesthetic tastes.

All design schools have one problem > they don’t prepare you for real life events and basic adaptability and soft skills needed to survive in a corporate environment…so that plus a little design experience applied to real world problems (which include the collision of business and design, even if people don’t want to admit it), will derive in fast growth at the beginning.

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

As UXers are often not coders, this presents issues when deciphering what issues we should document from a UX perspective when reviewing sites for accessibility concerns.