Finding the joy in alt text

“Alt text can be fun to create and fun to read.”

Font of Web

Discover the fonts of the most inspiring websites.

Detecting third-party cookie blocking

How to care that applications respond gracefully.

Courses Reviews

Find coding courses, read reviews and save money.

Stop with new SEO acronyms

“SEO is still Search Everywhere Optimization.”

Nothing more than a moat

“The ‘agentic’ web is another false promise of convenience.”

SVG to CSS Shape Converter

A web tool to transform an SVG shape into a CSS shape.

Buzzword-first strategy

“Maybe it will magically fix our strategy.”

My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

A provocation about AI-assisted programming.

How to correctly use if() in CSS

What can be confusing at first is easy to fix.

Photoshop arrives on Android

The iOS version was released earlier this year.

“AI may be the first anti-automation tool in that it has automated the thing developers like to do (write code) and stuck them with more of what they don’t like to do (fix someone else’s bad code).”

Storybook 9

Testing UI components gets smarter with new tooling.

More on what makes a good accessibility designer

Accessibility pushes us to go beyond our ordinary skills.

Physicality, the new age of UI

What’s next for the design of iPhones, iPads, and Macs?

New to the web platform (May 2025)

The latest browser features at a glance.

What happens when your buyer is a bot

“Websites become sources, not destinations.”

Icon styles and file formats

How icons can simplify and strengthen your message.

Introducing Dev Mode MCP server

Figma enables AI coding with your design context.

The art secret behind all great design

Content is king, but composition is kingmaker.

Introducing Bing Video Creator

Create videos with your words for free.

Printing the web

Making webpages look good on paper.

Translating accessibility

What to translate for accessible web pages.

CSS only contrast

Accessible contrast for a given color with pure CSS.

JavaScript with optional chaining

“A game-changer for writing safer, cleaner JavaScript.”

Unfinished Business

A podcast about business, clients, design, and development.

The UX butterfly effect

How to plan for unintended design consequences.

Reasons for failure

Not all failures are created equal.

Preserving text size when scaling SVGs

A flexible solution that doesn’t require much code.

Your website could use a changelog

A way to chart your creative journey and track progress.

What if AI were good?

Expectations that have yet to be fulfilled.

Everywhere Tools

Open-source tools for designers and creatives.

The ‘Personal Home Page Tools’ turn 30

On June 8, 1995, PHP said hello to the world.

Motion-Primitives

A collection of reusable animated components.

Social Proof Examples

Strategies to build trust and drive conversions.

Hosting-Checker

Discover the infrastructure behind any website.

Natural intelligence is sexy

Fighting top technology with cartoon characters.

Hypertext TV

Handmade art, games, and sites now on air.

The Brand Styleguide Showcase

Handpicked brand guidelines from around the world.

Decorative text within HTML

It’s perfectly valid HTML, but you may not like it.

WebKit in Safari 26 beta

SVG icons, CSS anchor positioning, and much more!

Apple’s new software design

It’s called Liquid Glass and behaves like real glass.

Web apps galore

Every site can be a web app on iOS/iPadOS 26.

Introducing php-node

How to seamlessly blend PHP with Node.js.

On shaping light

A deep dive into volumetric lighting.

ChatGPT vs. Claude vs. Gemini

Today’s top AI model for each use case.

Partial keyframes

CSS keyframe animations might blow your mind.

Struggling with EAA compliance?

What to do before the European Accessibility Act deadline.

Ready or not, the EAA is here

“Accessibility for digital products is no longer optional.”

Apple just sherlocked Docker

Linux container images now work directly on Macs.

Adobe’s shady plan practices

“My long-term trust in Adobe has completely sunk.”

A new way to style gaps

Say hello to consistent separators across CSS layouts.

Decoding the SVG ‘path’ element

It’s not as confusing as it initially looks.

Dia is a big bet on the web

A first look at The Browser Company’s AI browser.

TC39 advances 9 JavaScript proposals

Three features are ready to join ECMAScript.

Modal dialog focus

Where to put focus when opening a modal dialog.

How to use the browser console

An in-depth guide to Chrome DevTools’ console.

From flat to fancy

How Apple quietly revived skeuomorphism.

More for more, more for less, or less for less

The three pricing strategies to sell your products.

PHP version stats (June 2025)

Which PHP versions power today’s projects.

“Ask for facts and ‘AI’ gives you fiction. Apparently everyone is happy with that?”

The hamburger menu icon today

When used thoughtfully, it works well.

From skeuomorphic to liquid glass

Apple is preparing us for a UI paradigm shift.

Traffic is a terrible goal

“AI is gonna take your opportunity to get search traffic.”

The Thiings Collection

A huge collection of AI-generated 3D icons.

Design beyond barriers

Discover how to create accessible user interfaces.

Media Cheat Sheet

Image, video, and ad sizes for social platforms.

You’re not a front-end developer…

A quiz not meant to be taken too seriously.

Sheriff vs. Sans-Sheriff

When web typography goes wild west.

Escaping ‘<‘ and ‘>’ in attributes

What the HTML spec change means for developers.

The future of browsing the web

”AI just broke the web that Google built.”

Creating accessible emails

A guide to building impactful, compliant emails.

Where should AI sit in your UI?

Emerging design patterns for surfacing AI.

Next.js 15.1+ unusable outside Vercel

It potentially devastates your search rankings.

What I wish I knew when learning ARIA

How to approach a vital part of web interfaces.

Exploring JavaScript

A guide to modern JavaScript for programmers.

Choosing a chart type

Which to use for what data and goal?

The "trust, but verify" pattern

“Verification, not generation, is the new development bottleneck.”

Highlights from Git 2.50

A look at the top features and changes.

Just one more prompt, bro!

“Generative AI runs on gambling addiction.”

Interactive sites with code layers

Figma Sites makes custom interactions easier.

Keeping up with new CSS features

There are many ways to stay informed.

Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs

“You can build accessibly without having a bleeding heart.“

Adobe Firefly on your phone

AI images/videos can now be generated on the go.

Bluesky likes

Accessible, localizable web components are still a challenge.

Accessibility is 90% design

“Accessibility is the job of the designer.”

Why do people see AI so differently?

An attempt to explain the discrepancy.

The server doesn’t render anything

How servers can effectively deliver HTML.

Start using Bing Webmaster Tools

“Search is evolving and so has Bing Webmaster Tools.”

The future of content design in an AI world

“It’s a bit scary, but full of possibilities.”

The art of profiling the user

“The web of tomorrow won’t just be personalized.”

Cascade Layers vs. BEM vs. utility classes

Approaches to control CSS specificity.

Accessibility in design systems

How accessible features fit into design components.

AI assistant biases

Google AI Overviews vs. ChatGPT vs. Perplexity.

Why JPEGs still rule the web

“It’s difficult to topple a format with a 30-year head start.”

Who really owns accessibility?

Accessibility is a team effort of designers and developers.

Charts in CSS

Yet again, but now with new techniques.

The internet of consent

“Nobody asks for anything, they just take it.“

Sonda

A visualizer/analyzer for JavaScript and CSS bundles.

Wiki Radio

The thrilling sound of random Wikimedia.