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.

I have a confession to make. For the first year or so, I used GitHub Copilot like a glorified spell-checker. A really, really smart spell-checker, sure—one that could write a whole function instead of just fixing a typo—but the dynamic was the same. I’d write, it would suggest, and I’d hit Tab. The end.

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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…

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.

With that in mind, we’re focused on increasing the number of designers who receive leads and the number of leads each designer receives, with work underway to improve every facet of the conversion funnel.

, 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.

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