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The History of Themeable User Interfaces

Design tokens may be the latest incarnation, but software creators have been creating themeable user interfaces for quite a long time! As with all things, we can study history to learn from our past to inform our future. So let’s dig in!

Rethinking Applications for AI

With every new technology platform, the concept of an application shifts. Consider the difference between compiled apps during the PC era, online applications during the Web, and app stores during mobile. Now with AI it’s happening again.

Another article about centering in CSS

The tired old meme that centering in CSS is “impossible” has never been so irrelevant. In fact, I’d argue there’s almost too many options now.

Component-Based Design in Drupal

Component-based design (CBD) is a cornerstone in building scalable, maintainable, and efficient modern websites. It’s a transformative methodology that aligns with Drupal’s modular architecture and positions Drupal theming philosophy amongst the most recent best practices in architecting user interfaces.

Designing a mobile-first HTML editor

On iOS, these are in the tertiary keyboard. You have to go to the keyboard with the numbers and common symbols then click the symbols button to see the angle brackets. Then you need to swap back to the main keyboard to type an element name, potentially move to the second keyboard for quotation marks if you want to add an attribute to your HTML element, and go back to…

Vibe Coding and The Illusion of Progress

If you’ve ever shipped a product or owned a software business, you know this: writing code isn’t the real bottleneck for business, of-course the teams could be faster, could have less technical debt and so on.

Building a Flexible Visual System: Structure That Adapts Across Mediums

When two creatives collaborate, the design process becomes a shared stage — each bringing their own strengths, perspectives, and instincts. This project united designer/art director Artem Shcherban and 3D/motion designer Andrew Moskvin to help New York–based scenographer and costume designer Christian Fleming completely reimagine how his work is presented.

State of CSS 2025

One could be forgiven for being slow to adopt all these new-fangled CSS features. After all, do we really need them? And even if we do, do they even work reliably across browsers?

How to Be the Leader Your Web Design Clients Need

Working with web design clients means wearing many hats. We’re developers, marketers, and (sometimes) therapists. It’s all about building a great website that meets our clients’ needs.

What’s the most pointless trend in modern web design?

We’ve gone through glassmorphism, neumorphism, micro-interactions, and parallax scrolling. Some trends look amazing but add nothing. What’s a design trend you wish would just die already?

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