A practicing Muslim BIPOC Designer feels a sense of belonging and pride showing up unequivocally as herself.

When we think about the most impactful designs, whether in print, web, or user interfaces, we often notice a balance and harmony that makes the design attractive and functional. This balance is rarely achieved by accident. Behind these aesthetically pleasing and functional designs lies a powerful tool: the grid. While grids are merely tools in a designer’s toolkit, their power in creating structured, consistent, and user-friendly layouts cannot be overstated….

This is just a no-frills post with code snippets showing how to test support for some newish features in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This is in no way comprehensive and doesn’t get into what these features do, which is better covered in other posts.

The news: transitioning to auto is now a thing! Well, it’s going to be a thing. Chrome Canary recently shipped support for it and that’s the only place you’ll find it for now. And even then, we just don’t know if the Chrome Canary implementation will find its way to the syntax when the feature becomes official.

The Sonos Ace design story begins with Marcel Breuer’s Wassily Chair. Representing an idealized balance between contrasts – soft with hard, simple and complex, machined versus the human body – the iconic Bauhaus modernist design offered the Sonos design team a perfect aesthetic and functional template for designing what would become the brand’s first headphones.

Hello! This week we’re stepping back to review some of the most interesting ideas about design that we’ve heard over the past few months.

The design purity trap is the belief that as a designer you should always be evaluated on your creative talents and everything else is secondary. A design purist rejects the need for designers to be good communicators or to learn how to sell their ideas as these things are not “pure design.”

Typography is currently playing a central role in web design, with progressive improvements like Variable Fonts, CSS Shapes, FlexBox, CSS Grids and Subgrid definitively changing the way we work with typography in web design.

As your business enters international markets, it’ll need to meet the unique needs and demands of each locale. Internationalization and localization strategy help you overcome this challenge by tailoring your digital content to resonate with international audiences. Although they both work toward the same goal of global engagement, their roles and processes are distinct and indispensable. Here’s how each strategy helps your brand achieve success on a worldwide scale.

Writing is just as important to UX design as pushing pixels. For all the focus on Figma and design systems, it’s easy to forget that content is the reason people actually use your product.