A tutorial on creating custom CSS focus styles, demonstrating techniques from Smashing Magazine, WTF Forms, and Slack.
Analyzes the pros and cons of browser default focus styles and explores custom design alternatives for better accessibility and branding.
Explores how command palettes, inspired by desktop app menu bars, can improve accessibility and usability in web applications.
A Sketch design tip showing how zooming in makes using the Pen Tool easier for cleaner vector illustrations.
Explores the minimalist, engineering-focused design philosophy behind Sourcehut's web interface, contrasting it with platforms like GitHub.
A guide to creating reusable UI components in iOS using custom view subclasses in Swift, covering design principles and implementation.
A front-end developer's detailed thought process for building a responsive header component from a UI design, using HTML and CSS.
Explores advanced CSS techniques for logical styling based on element count, using selectors like :empty and :nth-child.
A deep dive into designing and building accessible toggle switches for UI themes, covering markup, semantics, and accessibility considerations.
A review of a book on designing effective UI animation, covering its role in branding, performance, and accessibility.
Explores common reasons why design systems fail, focusing on organizational support, investment, and adoption challenges.
Explains the crucial differences between HTML links and buttons, focusing on accessibility, semantics, and proper use in modern JavaScript web applications.
A technical tutorial on recreating Headspace's animated, imperfect dot logo using iOS graphics and CAShapeLayer.
Announcing minimal.iOS.8, a Winterboard theme for jailbroken iPhones, now available on Cydia.
Tips for effective application prototyping, focusing on simplicity, iteration, user feedback, and using familiar tools to validate ideas quickly.
A developer announces the iOS 7 version of their 'minimal.iOS' WinterBoard icon theme, with links to GitHub and Dribbble.
Argues that over-reliance on color pickers and palette galleries hinders learning and effective design communication.
A tutorial on creating a circular navigation menu using CSS transforms and mathematical calculations, with an interactive demo.
A guide to creating iOS 6-style toggle switches using only CSS, focusing on accessibility, browser compatibility, and no JavaScript.
A developer releases minimal.iOS, a Winterboard theme for jailbroken iPhones, starting with a lockscreen redesign.
