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The right amount of perfect
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The “Hard-edge” of Graphic Design—One Abstract Painter’s Exploration of Early Computer Graphics
Frederick Hammersley is best known as an abstract painter. A “hard-edge” painter, more precisely. The Hard-edge painters of the ’60s and ’70s—artists like Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, and Kenneth Noland—were marked by a certain aesthetic: geometric shapes, vibrant colors, and great attention to th
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Designing for the web ought to mean making HTML and CSS
During the dotcom boom back in the late 90s, I did a bunch of Photoshop-cut jobs. You know, where a designer throws a PSD file over the wall to an HTML monkey to slice and dice. It was miserable. T…
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The Burden of Precision | Daniel Eden, Designer
The personal site, blog, and portfolio of Daniel Eden, a designer writing and thinking about design systems.
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Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser?
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New horizons in CSS: Houdini and the Paint API
The way we write CSS is about to change. No, I don’t mean you have to change how you write […]
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The ‘Amen break’ is the ultimate design pattern
Back in the late 60s Gregory Sylvester “G. C.” Coleman, the drummer of Washington DC funk and soul band The Winstons recorded a drum…
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How I've Been Using Notion Personally and Professionally
I use Notion quite a bit, both personally and professionally.
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Back-to-top button without scroll events
Web developers: here’s an alternative way to build UI features that rely on scroll position without actually observing scroll events. Using the Intersection Observer API we can know when an element…
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★ Pentagram’s ‘Range of Possibilities’ for Slack
If I worked on Slack’s marketing team and Pentagram showed me these proposals, I’d look around the room for hidden cameras, presuming that I was being pranked.