Chris Coyier
Co-founder @CodePen. Does @CSS. Podcasts @ShopTalkShow. Clawhammer. New Dad.
Figma + Design Systems
What do you want to know about design systems in software? Do you have war stories to share? We'll seed this education center with input from our community. In early 2018, we’ll be sponsoring Design…
CSS Grid: Style Guide
Funny text from office ipsum: http://officeipsum.com/index.php What could go wrong if I were to do a style guide with 5 color palettes without any pla...
Maintaining Design Systems | Atomic Design by Brad Frost
Atomic design is a methodology for crafting effective design systems
Simplify / Gmail
Click to compare Simplify was made by me, Michael Leggett, with some help from friends. I was Gmail's lead designer from 2008 to 2012 and co-founded Google Inbox. I've been writing Chrome extensions…
Make it hard to screw up driven development
Development is complicated. Our job is an ongoing battle between getting the job done and doing that job in a safe, long-lasting way. Developers say
Infrastructure for Robo Calls
I hear this robo call problem is largely a western-countries thing. It certainly affects me. I’ve been on the Do Not Call list for a decade and it does nothing. These days I get at least a few…
Confetti button
canvas + clip-path + svg = fun playful, goto home, confetti button. Inspiration: https://dribbble.com/shots/5958559-Tab-Bar-Interaction-XVII Particle...
New WebKit Features in Safari 12.1
There are many improvements and new web platform features in WebKit that are now available with the release of Safari 12.1, included with macOS Mojave 10.14.4 and iOS 12.2. This release delivers web…
Giving Users a Quick Disguised Exit From a Website
A reader wrote in with a really interesting and important question. The answer might save people from harm or literally save lives. I am redesigning a webs
overscroll-behavior
The overscroll-behavior property in CSS controls whether an element will use "scroll chaining" or not. You have likely experienced this behavior before
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Phil Coffman is a digital designer and lives in Austin, TX with his family. He is currently the Design Lead at PCPartPicker.
Smooth Scrolling for Screencasts
Let's say you wanted to scroll a web page from top to bottom programmatically. For example, you're recording a screencast and want a nice full-page
Downsides of Smooth Scrolling
Smooth scrolling has gotten a lot easier. If you want it all the time on your page, and you are happy letting the browser deal with the duration for you,
Styling Based on Scroll Position
Rik Schennink documents a system for being able to write CSS selectors that style a page when it has scrolled to a certain point. If you're like me,
Babel 7 Upgrade
We just did a whole bunch of work to our JavaScript processing stuff here on CodePen, including updating to Babel 7. Here's what that means in the CodePen editor.
Station Break
John Hartford is amazing. Before his big music career, he was on the radio in Nashville as a disk jockey. As such, he can do these radio personality impressions super well, then as a twist, make them…
It's pretty cool how Netlify CMS works with any flat file site…
Little confession here: when I first saw Netlify CMS at a glance, I thought: cool, maybe I'll try that someday when I'm exploring CMSs for a new project.
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