Best Practices, Page 3

If you’ve ever tried to use a CSS transition on an element with the hidden attribute or display: none;, you know this can be a challenge. I’ve run into this problem a number of times…

A loosely organized and inexhaustive list of feedback and suggestions I frequently give designers.

After years of defaulting to PostCSS as our CSS processor of choice, we've recently considered reintroducing Sass to our stack.

Strategies for when the goals of your project, team or users diverge from those of an established design system.

A technique for overcoming touch target size and content clipping issues with pill-shaped and circular buttons.

Strategies for sharing HTML, CSS and JavaScript patterns between seemingly disparate projects or platforms.

When I first started learning web development I thought hiding content was simple: slap display: none; onto your hidden element and call it a day. Since then I’ve learned about screen readers, ARIA attributes,…

From 2008 through 2010 I taught Internet Typography and Web Standards courses part-time at a local art school. One of my goals was to balance students’ understanding of the web’s constraints with its potential. Too…

Incorporating contrast checks into our process has fundamentally changed the way we approach color in our design systems.