Nov 17 2025

Andy Budd - The Feature Trap: Why Feature Centricity Is Harming Your Product

Most product teams think in terms of features. Features are easy to brainstorm and write requirement docs for, and they fit nicely into our backlogs and ticketing systems. In short, thinking in term

Best Practices , User Experience , Product Strategy , Design , Business

Nov 17 2025

Victor Yocco - Presenting UX Research And Design To Stakeholders: The Power Of Persuasion

For UX researchers and designers, our journey doesn’t end with meticulously gathered data or well-crafted design concepts saved on our laptops or in the cloud. Our true impact lies in effectively co

ux , UX Research , Communication

Nov 17 2025

Preethi Sam - The Times You Need A Custom @property Instead Of A CSS Variable

We generally use a CSS variable as a placeholder for some value we plan to reuse — to avoid repeating the same value and to easily update that value across the board if it needs to be updated. :roo

animation , Css , Design

Nov 17 2025

Mikołaj Dobrucki - Penpot’s Flex Layout: Building CSS Layouts In A Design Tool

This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at Penpot whose mission is to provide an open-source and open-standards platform to bring collaboration between designers and developers

Tools , Css , Design

Nov 17 2025

Daniel Yuschick - Switching It Up With HTML’s Latest Control

The web is no stranger to taking HTML elements and transforming them to look, act, and feel like something completely different. A common example of this is the switch, or toggle, component. We woul

Techniques , coding , Design , HTML

Nov 17 2025

Paul Boag - Overcoming The Challenges Of Content Creation For Informational Websites

Web apps and e-commerce sites may get all the love these days, but the majority of the web is still informational, and most websites are still content-led. Whether it’s a marketing website trying to

workflow , Content , Web Design , Content Strategy

Nov 17 2025

Frederick O’Brien - An Ode To Side Project Time

There seemed to be a hot minute when the tech industry understood the value of idle tinkering and made a point of providing ‘side project time’ as an explicit working perk. The concept endures — I’m

workflow , Inspiration , Career , Opinion Column

Nov 17 2025

Luis Ouriach - Building Components For Consumption, Not Complexity (Part 2)

Welcome back to my long read about building better components — components that are more likely to be found, understood, modified, and updated in ways that promote adoption rather than abandonment.

Design System , Figma , Design

Nov 18 2025

Adrian Bece - Refactoring CSS: Introduction (Part 1)

CSS is a simple stylesheet language for defining a website or document’s presentation. However, this simplicity leaves the door open for many potential issues and technical debt — bloated code, spec

Refactoring , CSS Grid , Css