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cta.gallery

CTA gallery

The web’s best Call-to-Actions. For designers, UI/UX experts, and creatives looking for inspiration to craft CTAs that convert.

smashingmagazine.com

Masonry in CSS: should Grid evolve or stand aside

There were duelling proposals floating around for adding support for masonry-style layouts in CSS.

dynomight.net

How to title your blog post or whatever

So you’ve made a thing. Now you gotta choose a classifier.

longform.asmartbear.com

Product purgatory

When they love it but still don’t buy, and when even “free” is too expensive.

smashingmagazine.com

WCAG 3.0’s proposed scoring model

Prioritizing usability over compliance and shifting the focus toward the quality of access rather than the mere presence of features.

allenpike.com

Post-chat UI

How LLMs are making traditional apps feel broken.

blog.jim-nielsen.com

Craft and satisfaction

Satisfaction comes from arriving at a deeper, more intimate understanding of and relationship to what you’re working with

bencallahan.com

Bias in design systems

Discipline bias, product bias, tool bias, and more.

doc.cc

The unbearable lightness of big tech

Design can’t be effective when squeezed into a decades-old process.

charliedeets.com

Simple design

What value is simple design really providing me and my work?

tkalmi.dev

Fixing Vercel’s landing page

How to get rid of the Moiré pattern in Vercel’s landing page banner.

lukew.com

The evolution of AI products

The past three years really accelerated the evolution of "AI products"—from behind the scenes models to chat to agents.

wired.com

An oral history of WIRED’s original website

With HotWired, we introduced the world to the internet. Hyperlinks! Verticals! Banner ads! Cookies! Thirty years later, the hangover is real.

bit.ly

Design tokens go native—only in PenpotSponsored

Enjoy advanced features like string & numeric tokens, math operations, and more—made in collaboration with Tokens Studio by Hyma.

danramsden.com

The purpose of UX Design

The faith placed in “design thinking” now seems diverted into “product thinking.”

koomen.dev

AI horseless carriages

Why most AI features feel tacked-on and useless, even counter-productive.

alistapart.com

Build products that stick

Promising ideas can go from zero to hero in a few weeks, only to fizzle out within months.

winners.webbyawards.com

Webby awards winners

Discover the best of the Internet and uncover trends, insights and talent that define the future of Internet excellence.

smashingmagazine.com

Inclusive dark mode

Dark mode isn’t just a trendy aesthetic. It’s a gateway to more inclusive digital experiences, but only if designed thoughtfully.

medium.com

Design isn’t dead; you sound dumb

Design isn’t dead. Your understanding of it is. Though, let’s be real — was it ever actually alive in your mind to begin with?