Best Practices, Page 4

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

If tomorrow someone wanted to try out a radical new idea within your design system, where would that happen?

Google launched a big change to its permissions modal design with Chrome 63 in early December. I don’t think these changes have garnered enough attention in the web community. You may want to make some…

Big responsive projects are complicated, and standardized breakpoints can help. But they can also encourage bad habits if we aren't careful.

Shortly after we opened up Drizzle, our pattern library framework, Luke Askew started a wonderful discussion of pattern library maintainability in that project’s repository. This inspired me to reflect on the pattern libraries…

Many people know that you can scan your credit card in Mobile Safari. But how many web developers know how to create a form that supports that feature? Not many I’d bet. Auto-Fill…

Icons are everywhere. These “little miracle workers” (as John Hicks described them) help us reinforce meaning in the interfaces we design and build. Their popularity in web design has never been greater; the conciseness…

I recently did some research into the HTML that Facebook was using in the old version of its iOS app. More on that in a future post. In the meantime, I thought I’d share…

Here's one approach to handling multiple custom loops in WordPress!