As designers, “our role is to improve experiences for all users, always. But products operate in financial ecosystems. Without a viable business, there’s no user experience to champion.” – Andy Budd andybudd.com/archives/202...

Behind every successful launch, there are 100 interesting failures. We must stop thinking of failure as an end of something, and learn to see it as a natural part of progress. The first incarnation of a new idea may die, but the best ideas will find new lives.

Futura®100 is made by TypeTogether in concert with Bauer Types (@bauertypes). Find out more about Futura®100 and the 12 global writing systems in the first release on our website: www.type-together.com/futura100-font 5/5

I'm looking for people who primarily blog about WordPress. I want to create a home page where news items from these blogs are shown as they are published. Please reply to this post with the URL of the blog. It doesn't have to be your blog, btw, just one that you value.

Read all about my new company website, build with a custom WordPress Theme, which has been several months in the making. 🥰

How blogging can learn from what made social networks successful to draft a vision for the “open social web.” Part 3 in a series by @stephtara.bsky.social. Collect them all!

A List Apart (an online magazine that focuses on web design, web development, content, user experience, and related topics) has moved to Bluesky (120.755 followers on X) Bluesky: @alistapart.com

As designers, “our role is to improve experiences for all users, always. But products operate in financial ecosystems. Without a viable business, there’s no user experience to champion.” – Andy Budd andybudd.com/archives/202...

Design systems aren’t component libraries—they’re living languages. Rigid adherence to visual rules creates brittle systems that break under contextual pressure. Fluent systems bend without breaking. Michel Ferreira shares The Way of Design Dialects in today’s @alistapart.com.

“Yeah, yeah. We know how to write for online readers. We know bullet lists pwn. But who among us is asking the scary, important questions about content, such as ‘What’s the point?’ or ‘Who cares?’” The Discipline of #ContentStrategy by @halvorson.bsky.social alistapart.com/article/thed... #OldGold

The web is drowning in a sea of JavaScript, awash with unnecessary bloat, inaccessible cruft, and unsustainable patterns. Jeremy Wagner plots a course to navigate JS responsibly. alistapart.com/article/resp... #JavaScript #webdevelopment #webdesign #AListApart #OldGold

@bsky.app has not yet verified @alistapart.com, we suppose because they’ve got bigger fish to fry first. We guess that at least some members of the Bluesky team learned their craft from us and trust that they’ll get around to verifying us sooner or later. Reshare if you care.

#design managers & leads should contribute to the same goals, with their unique skills buff.ly/5eC4SN7 @alistapart.com - Lead Designer: user needs, product quality & strategic design initiatives - Design Manager: communication, manage stakeholders, align connects design to business

From time zones to dates, from measuring system units to seasons and holidays, the world is full of contrasting standards. Job Thomas shares tips on making our communications more geographically inclusive. job.blog/2021/12/29/m...

Life in shuffle mode: “Soon, however, the feeds were made ‘curvilinear’ by the infinite scroll and autoplay function. We now know that these features impair awareness and memory by lulling people into passivity.” www.gurwinder.blog/p/how-social... (via @biancawylie.com)

We used to build websites. Now we build pipelines, frameworks, and hydration strategies - just to publish text. This isn’t progress. It’s complexity, by design. We need to escape the JavaScript framework trap. www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/j...

Five Practical Ways to Train Your Taste 
 * Less is more * Avoid mistaking cost for quality. * Study what you don’t like: The art that bothers you has something to teach. Dig into it and discover what that is. * Go beyond the surface * Always ask why iamarino.com/human-curati...

@bsky.app has not yet verified @alistapart.com, we suppose because they’ve got bigger fish to fry first. We guess that at least some members of the Bluesky team learned their craft from us and trust that they’ll get around to verifying us sooner or later. Reshare if you care.

♥ Content for fun vs. content for purpose: designing for two distinct modes of consumption ♥ 
automattic.design/2025/07/28/c... #design

“The relationship between a Design Manager and Lead Designer isn’t about dividing territories. It’s about multiplying impact. When both roles understand they’re tending to different aspects of the same healthy organism, magic happens.” alistapart.com/article/an-h...

Looking to tailor your product to individual users’ needs? Colin Eagan and Jeffrey MacIntyre walk you through their approach to aligning different stakeholders toward the common goal of personalized user experiences ... in @alistapart.com for people who make websites.™

Thanks for the memory, @classicweb.site. And, hey, we’re still at it. Check @alistapart.com.

♥ Content for fun vs. content for purpose: designing for two distinct modes of consumption ♥ 
automattic.design/2025/07/28/c... #design

Five Practical Ways to Train Your Taste 
 * Less is more * Avoid mistaking cost for quality. * Study what you don’t like: The art that bothers you has something to teach. Dig into it and discover what that is. * Go beyond the surface * Always ask why iamarino.com/human-curati...

“think of your design team as a living organism. The Design Manager tends to the mind (the psychological safety, the career growth, the team dynamics). The Lead Designer tends to the body (the craft skills, the design standards, the hands-on work that ships to users).”

“Creatives knows that, at best, they are Salieri. Even the creatives who are Mozart believe that.” alistapart.com/article/i-am... #design #creative #CreativeBlock #CreativeStrategy #ItsMagic

“Don’t wait until design decisions are solidified to ask what your users think.”—Jessica Harllee alistapart.com/article/shar... #ux #research #testing #iterating

The Story of CSS Grid, from Its Creators alistapart.com/article/the-... #CSSgrid #css #WebDesign #code #frontend #WebHistory #WebDesignHistory #WebDevelopment

“The relationship between a Design Manager and Lead Designer isn’t about dividing territories. It’s about multiplying impact. When both roles understand they’re tending to different aspects of the same healthy organism, magic happens.” alistapart.com/article/an-h...

Most article submissions suck. Yours doesn’t have to be one of them. Now accepting submissions for @alistapart.com. alistapart.com/article/so-y...

Having both a Design Manager and a Lead Designer on the same team is beautiful, but can be messy. To make it work without creating confusion, overlap, or “too many cooks,” see new @alistapart.com author @michelferrari.bsky.social’s “Holistic Framework for Shared Design Leadership.” #ProductDesign

What can your font do? Find out with this delightful free web app by pixelambacht.nl. 😲 wakamaifondue.com

The GREAT DESIGN HANDOFF: “We’re handing our designs to Figma while it trains its AI. We're optimizing our flows for clicks, not clarity. We stopped building tools and started building engagement traps. We're trading empathy for algorithms.” trends.uxdesign.cc #ux

Exciting, @alistapart.com is looking for submissions! alistapart.com/about/contri...

Why I 🧡 the web,. Someone made a 'old style "Weather Channel Simulator". If you are old enough you'll know what this is. Sadly i'm old enough. weatherstar.netbymatt.com Best of all it's #opensource: github.com/netbymatt/ws... #JavaScript

Web designers, know your history. “Writing for the Web,” January 22, 1999. alistapart.com/article/writ... #UIwriting #UXwriting #copywriting #GuideCopy #webdesign @alistapart.com

“Above all, read what you are designing, and imagine reading it for the first time, like someone who just found it.” The late Dean Allen on designing pages to be read. From @alistapart.com back in November, 2001. #ReadingDesign #typesetting #readability #webdesign #WebDesignHistory

★ Designing Safer Web Animation For Motion Sensitivity by Val Head September 08, 2015 alistapart.com/article/desi... #a11y #OldGold @vlh.bsky.social #vestibular #VestibularDisorder #vertigo #migraines #nausea #health #ux #ixd #ui #animation #design

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” @liamnugent.bsky.social explains how to avoid the pitfalls of feature-first development ... and start building products that stick. 


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The web is drowning in a sea of JavaScript, awash with unnecessary bloat, inaccessible cruft, and unsustainable patterns. Jeremy Wagner plots a course to navigate JS responsibly. alistapart.com/article/resp... #JavaScript #webdevelopment #webdesign #AListApart #OldGold

CSS text-box-trim: Take back space from above and below your text content; achieve optical balance. @nerdy.dev developer.chrome.com/blog/css-tex... #CSS #webdesign #frontend #webdevelopment #webstandards #layout

We know this is a worrying time for many - behind every policy debate are real people experiencing real struggles. Though we are not able to offer support services, we have a range of resources on our website to help find support near you: buff.ly/cM8t5BF #Disability #DisabilityBenefits

Mark your calendars: The 2025 edition of Inclusive Design 24 ( #id24 ) will take place on the 25 September 2025! We've just opened our call for presentations (closing date 31 May 2025) - looking forward to your exciting submissions! inclusivedesign24.org/2025/ #a11y #accessibility

(Almost) every year, I give a free all-day training workshop on digital accessibility in celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), which takes place on May 15 this year. 1/2

Interop 2025 launched today! Some really exciting features set to become part of Baseline this year.

I know folks here tend not to be hot on mastodon and the fediverse but I'm very excited about the release of Erin Kissane and Darius Kazemi's report on fediverse moderation and governance, lots to chew on for those interested in the future of online communities

Here’s my HTML course! www.linkedin.com/learning/htm...

First release at the new job! STP215 is here 🥳 Safari Technology Preview is a great way to see what's coming and test new web capabilities. My personal favs: 💫 HDR images 💫 Scroll Driven Animations 💫 CSS Anchor Positioning 💫 text-wrap-style: pretty Anything you're looking forward to?

I can’t stop switching styles on localghost.dev !

I can save you the several hours of attending my research workshop (which is fun and you should anyway) with the tl;dr that no one makes decisions based on data, so if you're a designer, or a design researcher, or a policy advocate you need to get good at relationships and stories.