The Neilson Norman group outline various problems with the PDF format for online reading, and user testing research on which icon signifier works best for accordion components. Madalyn Parker compares Accessibility Testing to making coffee (along with some brilliant illustrations), Ted Goas says we should begin our design stage in your collaborative document editor of choice — "It lowers the barrier to entry, makes it easier to cast a wide netand keeps people focused on the problem...", Leslie Mu discusses atomic design systems and the Pace Layering theory, Elad Shechter warns us that CSS Logical Properties (the ability to control layout through logical, rather than physical dimensions, e.g. for vertical or right-to-left text) aren't ready for prime time and the always beautiful Increment magazine's latest issue focuses on APIs.
Stephen Nixon describes how to use Variable Google Fonts, both Nils Binder and Solo Cube will test your maths skills to discuss, respectively, CSS Gradients and fixed aspect elements in Figma, Dan Klammer explais the new AVIF image format looking to improve upon JPEG, PNG and WebP images. Tomas Pustelnik talks CSS Optimisation, Chrome DevTools expert Umar Hansa discusses DevTools' Accessibility features and Matthias Ott gives us a peek into his CSS methodology.
Open source browser tools and CSS generators from Omatsuri, a tool for finding out the hosting/server infrastructure of a website and a WordPress plugin from ShortPixel to detect and generate correctly sized responsive images.
Stephanie Eckles' Style Stage showcases modern CSS via user contibutions (similar to the legendary CSS Zen Garden), Max Böck's Whimsical Web showcase web design with a fun edge, whilst Pavel Laptev's Web Dark Ages gives us a blast of nostalgia. With a nod to lot of us now working from home Window Swap and Nimrod Kramer both give us a glimpse into other people workspaces.