Web Design
CSS Wrapped 2025
The Chrome Dev Team recaps the new CSS features that shipped in Google Chrome this past year in one amazingly designed webpage. They cover new functionality for creating more customizable components, next-gen interactions, and optimizing ergonomics. We’ve … CSS...
Fit width text in 1 line of CSS
The Chrome team recently prototyped a working solution for fitting text to the width of a container in CSS using a text-grow property. Fit width text in 1 line of CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
State, Logic, And Native Power: CSS Wrapped 2025
CSS Wrapped 2025 is out! We’re entering a world where CSS can increasingly handle logic, state, and complex interactions once reserved for JavaScript. Here is an unpacking of the standout highlights and how they connect to the bigger evolution...
AI Website Building: Separating Hype from Reality
Vibe coding tools make prototyping fast, but building a real business site is different. Here’s how WordPress.com's AI website builder solves those gaps.
That Time I Tried Explaining HTML and CSS to My 5-...
I would like to tell you what I learned from a five-year old child about HTML and CSS. It’s funny how explaining something you do almost naturally teaches you about yourself and what you take for granted. That Time...
How UX Professionals Can Lead AI Strategy
Lead your organization’s AI strategy before someone else defines it for you. A practical framework for UX professionals to shape AI implementation.
HTML Web Components Proposal From 1998
It's easy to think of HTML Web Components as a recent feature, but it has roots that go all the way back to 1998. HTML Web Components Proposal From 1998 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the...
Beyond The Black Box: Practical XAI For UX Practit...
Explainable AI isn’t just a challenge for data scientists. It’s also a design challenge and a core pillar of trustworthy, effective AI products. Victor Yocco offers practical guidance and design patterns for building explainability into real products.
State of the Word 2025 Recap: The Top Highlights
State of the Word 2025 delivered big news — a live 6.9 release, new AI foundations, and a year of record growth across the ecosystem. Catch up on the top takeaways.
Getting Creative With “The Measure”
A good measure makes reading text comfortable, while a bad one makes it more difficult. So, rather than allowing layout to dictate the measure, doesn’t it make more sense for the measure to inform layout decisions? Getting Creative With...
WordPress 6.9: What’s New for Developers
WordPress 6.9 ships major upgrades across AI-ready capabilities, data tools, interactivity, and theme development — giving developers more power and flexibility than ever.
WordPress 6.9: What’s New for Bloggers, Creators, ...
WordPress 6.9 is already available on WordPress.com, and you can start using the new features today to improve your experience as a site owner and increase user engagement.
Scrollytelling on Steroids With Scroll-State Queri...
Unconvinced of the value of scrollytelling? Alright, skeptic, let’s first warm up with some common use cases for scroll-based styling. Scrollytelling on Steroids With Scroll-State Queries originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should...
Masonry: Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymo...
CSS Masonry is almost here! Patrick Brosset takes a deep dive into what this long-awaited feature means for web developers and how you could make use of it in your own work.
15 Best Number Fonts for Displaying Numbers (2025)...
Website typography has multiple different aspects; displaying numbers on the screen is among the most important ones. There are many use cases when you might want to focus on... The post 15 Best Number Fonts for Displaying Numbers (2025)...
JavaScript SpeechSynthesis API
As the web continues to be the medium for all users, standards bodies need to continue to provide new APIs to enrich user experience and accessibility. One underused API for unsighted users is speechSynthesis, an API to programmatically direct...
Prompt Design for Artists: How to Get Better Resul...
AI-generated art has completely changed the creative landscape. Tools like Midjourney, Leonardo AI, and OpenArt AI have made it possible for artists to turn text into vivid images in seconds. But as powerful as these systems are, they’re only...
Image formats: Codecs and compression tools
Image compression involves countless trade-offs between quality, size, and speed. In this final part of the series, we experiment with codecs, metrics, and tools to find practical ways to balance efficiency and visual fidelity.
Not A Designer update
Hi Not a Designer subscriber,As you may have noticed (or not :), I’ve taken a break from writing this newsletter. These issues take a lot of time to research and write and other things have taken time away from...
























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