“Designing Intrinsic Layouts” by Jen Simmons

Twenty-five years after the web began, we finally have a real toolkit for creating layouts. Combining CSS Grid, Flexbox, Multicolumn, Flow layout and Writing Modes gives us the technical ability to build layouts today without the horrible hacks and compromises of the past.

In this hour-long talk captured live at An Event Apart DC 2019, Jen Simmons walks you through the thinking process of creating accessible & reusable page and component layouts.

Her YouTube Channel Layout Land, which is mentioned at the start, is worth a closer look if you’re looking for more CSS Grid/Flexbox/etc. related videos.

“Designing Intrinsic Layouts” by Jen Simmons – An Event Apart →

Published by Bramus!

Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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