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What Really Matters: Focusing on Top Tasks (2015)
Every piece of web content is important-or so every stakeholder insists. But what happens when dozens, even hundreds, of different tasks battle for space on your homepage and in your navigation? It…
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Axiomatic CSS and Lobotomized Owls (2014)
Managing flow content can get unwieldy-too many class selectors can become a specificity headache, nested styling can get redundant, and content editors don't always understand the presentational m…
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Writing Is Thinking (2014)
When you write about your work, it makes all of us smarter for the effort, including you. Done well, this kind of sharing means you're contributing signal, instead of noise. But writers are made, n…
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CSS Grid, from Its Creators (2017)
Designers have used grids for centuries. And after more than 20 years of waiting, they are finally here for the browser. This is the story of CSS Grid. It took a lot of people in the right place an…
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A Dao of Web Design (2000)
Web designers often bemoan the malleable nature of the web, which seems to defy our efforts at strict control over layout and typography. But maybe the problem is not the web. Maybe the problem is …
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The CSS Holy Grail Layout (2006)
Just in case you might want a three-column layout that doesn't require the usual sacrifices, we thought we'd share this technique. Not that you'd want that or anything.
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Never use a warning when you mean undo (2007)
Are our web apps as smart as they should be? By failing to account for habituation (the tendency, when presented with a string of repetitive tasks, to keep clicking OK), do our designs cause people…
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Sliding Doors of CSS (2003)
Image-driven, visually compelling user interfaces. Text-based, semantic markup. Now you can have both! Douglas Bowman's sliding doors method of CSS design offers sophisticated graphics that s…
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