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Cloud Four’s creative director ponders what he’d like to see from CSS in the coming year.

But I'm not sure when this became widely supported, and I can't find anything about it online...

As soon as I read my teammate Paul’s explanation of the math behind nesting rounded corners, I wanted to recreate it using custom properties and calc.

Of all the things that the W3C has published, my favorite is the priority of constituencies. That’s quite a statement given the W3C published the standards that form the foundation of the web and, by extension, my career. But the priority of constituencies has always deeply resonated with me. What happens if we apply it to design systems?

What CSS could I be writing tomorrow that might seem far-fetched today?

I recently found myself racing to fill out Chipotle’s online order form before my mother could find her credit card. In the process, I discovered a bug that could cost Chipotle $4.4 million annually. My…

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

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.