In this tutorial, Blake Lundquist walks us through two methods of creating the “moving-highlight” navigation pattern using only plain JavaScript and CSS. The first technique uses the getBoundingClientRect method to explicitly animate the border between navigation bar items when they…
We’ve all encountered them—the designers who swear by Figma like it’s the holy grail of design tools. You know the ones.They’ll casually drop, “Oh, I don’t know, Figma just makes it so much easier,” as if the rest of us…
Designers love to craft, but polishing pixels before the problem is solved is a time-sink. This article pinpoints the five traps that lure us into premature detail — being afraid to show rough work, fixing symptoms instead of causes, solving…
Something Missing on Your Landing Page? It’s Probably This.You’ve been there. Staring at your landing page thinking, “It’s fine, but… something’s off.” That something? It’s probably social proof.You know—those glowing testimonials, user counts, recognizable logos, Slack shoutouts, tweet screenshots, five-star reviews, Product Hunt upvotes……
Road-tripping along the line between engineering and spirituality, Robert M. Pirsig’s musings on the arts, sciences, and Quality ring as true now as they ever have.I think we, as engineers and designers, have a lot to gain by stepping outside…
Cognitive load has become the web design equivalent of “eat your vegetables”—everyone knows it’s important, and we all try to do it, but sometimes it feels like we’re trying to stuff an entire kale salad into a single bite.Sure, reducing…
Learn how to create and implement a UX strategy framework that shapes work and drives real business value.In my experience, most UX teams find themselves primarily implementing other people’s ideas rather than leading the conversation about user experience. This happens…
When Figma announced Sites, designers lit up like it was Christmas, WWDC, and Adobe’s funeral all rolled into one. Finally, they cried — a tool that would let me publish directly from Figma. No developers. No handoff. No middleman. Just click “Publish”…
Transactional emails are integral to many websites and online businesses, including e-commerce, membership sites, marketplaces, forums, and job boards. If you own or manage any WordPress-based website that involves users creating accounts and logging in, deliverability issues with transactional emails…
The Penpot team is not slowing down on its mission to build a free design tool that not only offers powerful design features but is also well-integrated with code and modern development practices. In its latest release, Penpot, as the…