Vasilis van Gemert
Our web design tools are holding us back
nowadays we can build things with CSS that are impossible to create with our design tools. We have scroll-snap, we have complicated animations, we have all kinds of wonderful interaction, grid, flexbox, all kinds of shapes, and so much more that you won’t find in the drop down menus of your tool of choice. Yet our websites still look and behave like they were designed with photoshop.
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Layout & Grid in Design Systems
This interdisciplinary disconnect around grid’s mental model affects how teams execute grid. In a broken, unidirectional, “developer handoff” process, design comps are treated as sacrosanct, and developers see that 12-column semi-transparent pink guideline as a hard requirement that must implemented exactly as articulated by the static design tool. This is how a “how to do a 12-column grid in HTML/CSS?” Google search ultimately led to massive success for tools like Bootstrap. Despite the introduction of many new CSS technologies and layout techniques over many years, this antiquated 12-column mental model still dominates a lot of conversations around layout and grid.
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The web is good at these things, just not in the ways that designers have been accustomed to working. We'll take a look at how we got here and how we might change our perspective. Let's think outside of the grid and allow other guidelines to provide a comprehensive layout.
Trys Mudford
Yet another great Utopia tool, this time for grids, but the right way:
I'm still looking for an alternative to Forestry:
https://forestry.io/blog/tina-cloud-the-next-forestry/
As Netlify doesn't seem to care for Netlify CMS anymore:
https://answers.netlify.com/t/is-this-project-dead/70988/1
A fork managed by a community might be a good solution, I'll keep an eye on it:
https://staticjscms.netlify.app/
My notes will now be push to Mastodon as toots, this feels great! 🎉
Marcus Herrmann
I was not aware of this new Mastodon feature, this is great!
15 years ago… 🤷♂️
Work, what else?
Twitter might not exist anymore soon, or change to the point I don't want to use it anymore.
But I’ve been on Mastodon for a few years now, and it’s great. Find me at @nhoizey">https://mamot.fr/@nhoizey
Max Böck
Owning your content on the web should not require extensive technical knowledge or special skills. It should be just as easy as signing up for a cellphone plan.
Josh Collinsworth
Why you should never use px to set font-size in CSS
Let’s be very clear: it absolutely does matter what unit you use in your CSS. And you should avoid px when setting font-size wherever possible.
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