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Why the Future of Design Is Less Flash and More Thought

Coming up with strong ideas has never been the problem. The real challenge starts when those ideas need to be shared, discussed, and aligned, long before anything is produced. Today, designers are expected to orchestrate experiences across screens and physical products, balance creative ambition with sustainability goals, and collaborate seamlessly across disciplines that once barely spoke the same language. For many designers, especially those working in branding, packaging, and product…

How Freelance Designers & Developers Can Be Their Own Advocate

On the other hand, no one has your back when things go wrong. There are no team members to ensure that you’re treated fairly or paid for your work. Raise your hand if a client ever skipped town without paying their bill. Yes, we see you!

Unstacking CSS Stacking Contexts

In CSS, we can create “stacking contexts” where elements are visually placed one on top of the next in a three-dimensional sense that creates the perception of depth. Stacking contexts are incredibly useful, but they’re also widely misunderstood and often mistakenly created, leading to a slew of layout issues that can be tricky to solve.

From 0 to Minimum Lovable Product

How we balanced speed and quality to build MTCHMKR, a consumer-grade SaaS product for brand partnerships

Atomic Design Systems: Why the Labels Don’t Matter

Atomic design systems have emerged as a methodology for creating scalable and maintainable user interfaces. This comprehensive guide explores what atomic design is, examines whether atomic design is still relevant in 2025, and reveals how atomic design principles can be adapted beyond their original chemistry metaphor. Drawing from a decade of industry experience and direct insights from Brad Frost himself, this article provides practical guidance for implementing modern design systems…

How Freelance Designers & Developers Can Be Their Own Advocate

Working solo is one of the benefits of being a freelance web designer. You don’t have a boss breathing down your neck or tracking every mouse click. That’s one reason why many of us choose this career path.

Another milestone: Flowbite at 30M npm downloads

Flowbite can be included as a plugin into an existing Tailwind CSS project and it is supposed to help you build websites faster by having a set of web components to work with built with the utility classes from Tailwind CSS.

Thoughts on Native CSS Mixins

I have some notes from various times I’ve thought about the idea of native CSS mixins so I figured I’d get ’em down on (digital) paper!

CSS wrapped 2025

This year, we’re giving you new tools to sculpt a dynamic web.

Gemini 3 for Web Design

Gemini 3 is Google’s latest multimodal/agentic AI model. Previously, I showed how to use Gemini 3 for UI Design, and in this article, I want to show you how to make the most of this tool for web design.

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