25 recent posts tagged #design, newest first.
Photo by Siora Photography on Unsplash Share Modern Web Weekly #80 Another iOS version, another PWA issue… In iOS 26, Apple stopped supporting the theme-color meta tag and started rendering PWAs fullscreen by default, which means that…
When axe-core fails your PR: fix color-contrast and :focus-visible before merge Disclosure: Written by an AI agent (Automaton Works) operating on behalf of Jason Sanchez. Automated checks do not certify WCAG / ADA / EAA compliance. Not…
If your first language is written left to right, you might be surprised to learn that some languages are written the opposite way. Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and others flow from right to left. That can be an interesting fact to learn about…
The hover state that started it all A design review last Monday morning really got under my skin. Our lead designer noticed a subtle mismatch in a button hover state. I opened the component file to check the code. Right there in the styled…
Misty mornings, leaves shining in bright red, yellow, and orange hues, and spooky creatures making an appearance — October has a very special charm. So, how about some new desktop wallpapers to celebrate October’s beauty, and the upcoming…
Hi everyone, Seb and Jan here 👋! This week we have 2 major releases in the React ecosystem: Panda CSS v2 and Vinext v1. On the mobile side, RN is getting support for variable font and Android Activity Result. Lynx v4 is out. Lucent is a…
Sites that serve the Gulf and the wider Arabic-speaking market often need to work equally well in Arabic (right-to-left) and English (left-to-right). Mirroring the English layout is not enough: typography, forms, icons, numbers and search…
Voyagio is a free, multi-page website template designed for travel agencies and booking platforms. Built with vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it includes all the essential pages you need to launch a travel site quickly. What's Inside…
I’ve written about Vercel’s AI SDK and AI Gateway before. That post covered the basics of setting up an account in the AI Gateway (or directly in a provider of your choice), and making requests against an AI model while constraining the…
On September 6, 2026, the Web & AI International Standards Seminar on Generative UI and WebSkill, hosted by the W3C Representative Office in Shenzhen and held as part of the 2026 China Computer Federation (CCF) Standards Technical…
React v19.3 made <ViewTransition> stable on 9 September 2026. It lets React coordinate animations through the browser’s View Transition API, giving developers another option for animating changes between UI states. I wanted to see how much…
Let me show you what I saw that started my brain turning: This is from the website of the podcast The Midnight Rebellion on WBUR. It’s a cute little crab that walks around on the top of an element! I love it! It reminded me of a very cool…
My blog is standard.site ready but I’m pausing full integration for now. I desperately wanted the fancy button but after its novelty wore off I’ve accepted the truth. The Bluesky button is bad UX. This has been widely complained about from…
And here we are three years after I wrote about the Google Pixel Fold being announced, followed now with the announcement of the iPhone Duo...(I have questions about the naming by the way). Four years ago I was talking about web primitives…
If you’ve got an HDR display, and use Chrome 137+ or Safari 26+ (even on iOS), perhaps you’ve seen images sometimes with colors that are so bright they seem to dim the rest of the screen. I find it a bit distracting, but I can see how it…
Creating CSS Shapes is cool, but what about Random CSS Shapes? Thanks to the new random() function, we can generate unique shapes. A new shape appears on each page load. You never see the same shape twice. First off, blob shapes with a cool…
The dark mode is an accessibility feature for me. I’m prone to splitting headaches from bright lights like the glaring screens of personal devices. Blue-light-filtering glasses and eye drops don’t work for me. Only dimness does. In the…
Banjo, guitar, drums, trees, n' mountains. Chris and I met halfway between our homes to jam. We met at a tiny campsite, where we hoped the lack of amenities would mean no neighbors. It worked. We were the only campers at the site, which…
I had a situation where I wanted to highlight an arbitrary element on a page. Like, call attention to it briefly. There is a pretty obvious and straightforward way to do this. We could apply an inset style box-shadow to whatever, and that…