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An interesting thought experiment from Chris: if a client asked you to build a website that could last a minimum of 10 years, what would you do? Lots of influential people in his answers, but I'm …

The concept of "card based" web design has been around for at least three years now. So why is it that the following quote from Khoi Vinh, written back in 2014, still appears to be a fundamental …

Zurb have released a great breakdown of their redesign for The Next Web. The article jumps between people's perspectives; it's a neat way to present main goals whilst highlighting the variety of folk …

A wonderful (and wistful) treatise to the personal web. Takes a design-oriented approach, but the words are just as applicable to any discipline (even non-digital ones). More importantly, Simon's …

I'm a sucker for a personal collection displayed on the web, and I really love the simplicity of Jamie's design for his digital bookshelf. An easy rating system; simple (and fast) filters; and a very …

What a wonderful project. The folk at Paravel have taken the Sherlock novel A Scandal in Bohemia and recreated it as a bespoke website. Of course, the whole site is beautifully designed, but …

A follow-up to Andy's previous explanation of his compound grid layout in which they explain their logic behind a 4 + 5 compound grid a bit more. It's neat, but this description is what really caught …

Occasionally, Stumbleupon delivers something totally unexpected and awesome. It's why I still get the service's weekly emails years after ever actively using the... app? Extension? Whatever, today it …

For the second year running, Khoi Vinh of subtraction.com is asking for designers/developers to fill out a survey detailing what tools they use in their day-to-day workflow. I'm probably not the …

It's not often that I see a website and just want to explore it, but that's what Robb Owen has achieved. I've literally gone back multiple times just to refresh my memory of it. There's something …

Just after the 10-year anniversary of his Responsive Design article on A List Apart, Ethan has published some interesting thoughts on the nature of seams within …

I've watched the Whimsical Web slowly grow over the last few days and it's been excellent. There's a lot of sites (and developers/designers) that I already know on the list but plenty more I would …

Some really nice thoughts and a generally solid write up of the latest Slack redesign, which has been trialled/prototyped by a diverse "working group" of customers. Great to see a tech company …

An excellent overview from Josh of the pitfalls of using UI frameworks. I particularly enjoyed their focus on why developers often advocate for these tools, and how those needs are often …

Rewilding Britain just launched it's new/first website, which I'm far too excited by. Philosophical fanboyism aside, I really like the web design they've created. Plenty of green; stunning …

Both the photography and idea behind Written in Stone are great, but what really stood out to me here was the simple-yet-elegant design of the page. It works beautifully together, and I …

A great breakdown from Dave as to why the typical card UI pattern has some inherent issues. Some elements – like making cards all the same height and dealing with responsively collapsing card lists …

A bespoke stylesheet that automatically styles semantic HTML to look like …

A really like Eric's latest redesign. I'm a huge fan of ink drawings in general, so it figures I'd like this, but more than the graphic elements I feel like the layout manages to strike a great …

Max has a pretty brilliant colour theme switcher on his website. I agree with him that "dark mode" is only the tip of the iceberg and with CSS variables we can now theme sites very easily. There are …

More than 700 web icons made entirely in CSS from a single <div> (SVG versions are also present). Very useful and great …

Building a tooltip? A carousel? A password input? I can strongly recommend checking if the Component Gallery has a page on whatever UI pattern you're working …

I've always thought the utility of Tailwind was promising, but it bugged me that the way it worked was so counter to both best practices and the web stack's architecture. Well, introducing …

An interesting look at the early draft proposal for an official design token specification and file format. The pitch is a strong one: standardise design tokens so that every tool can understand …

Good design involves a lot of decision making, and decisions result in trade-offs. Understanding how to go about considering design decisions is critical to good user experiences and ensuring other …

An excellent overview of how to approach fluid design on the web. Lots of excellent references and techniques, particularly those around using Flex layout with flex-basis to control widths, or …

I should probably mention why this site is so, well, bare. Basically, I like the idea of starting with a blank slate, evolving the site over time, allowing it to build itself. I think it'll be a lot …

I love Andy's new design over on Stuff & Nonsense. A large part of that are the cleverly diverse page layouts. Turns out, underneath that perceived diversity is a consistent grid, made …

A collection of hyper-optimised SVG logos for social media, popular websites, and tech companies. Every logo, whether in PNG or SVG form, is less than 1kb in size and have a base scale of …

Whilst falling down the rabbit-hole of digital gardening I found some of Maggie's tweets incredibly insightful and useful, yet somehow totally missed her own digital garden (and her entire related …