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Yet another great Utopia tool, this time for grids, but the right way:
the 12 column grid itself is an illusion, or at best a fading artefact of the emergent design
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.
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.
Prevent layout shifts with CSS grid stacks
I keep sending people this clever solution provided by Hubert, I wonder why I still didn't add it to my links!
The Minimum Content Size In CSS Grid
Sometimes, while building a component, you suddenly notice a weird horizontal scroll bar. You keep trying and fixing the wrong thing, only to realize later that the cause is something else. How many times have you been there?
Expandable Sections Within a CSS Grid
This is a great use case for CSS Grid's dense packing algorithm!
Trys Mudford 
Brad Frost
Donnie D'Amato
Hubert Sablonnière
Ahmad Shadeed
Kev Bonett