Page editors are a great way to provide an excellent user experience. However, to build one is often a pretty dreadful task. Craft.js solves this problem by modularising the building blocks of a page editor. It provides a drag-n-drop system and handles the way user components should be rendered, updated and moved – among other […]
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Smooth Scrolling Sticky ScrollSpy Navigation
Yesterday evening I was working on some documentation pages. The page layout is quite classic, as it consists of a content pane on the left and a sidebar navigation on the right. Looking for a way to make the page less dull I decided to add a few small things to it: Smooth Scrolling when […]
Fundamentals of Hierarchy in Interface Design
Visual hierarchy is the order in which the user process information by importance. In interface design, like in any other form of design, this concept is necessary to be functional at sight. With the correct use of hierarchy, the mind can group and prioritize elements to give them a specific order, which facilitates the understanding […]
How to Design Delightful Dark Mode Themes
When done well, dark themes have many benefits. They reduce eyestrain. They are easier to read in low light. And, depending on the screen, they can greatly reduce battery consumption. However, it is difficult to create a delightful dark theme. We cannot simply reuse our colors or invert our shades. If we do, we will […]
Blocks UI – A JSX-based page builder
A JSX-based page builder for creating beautiful websites without writing code. Blocks comes with built-in components that are carefully designed and implemented with Theme UI. Blocks UI →
“Hold to confirm” Button
Ooh, I like the organic feel on this “Hold to Confirm” button: Nice combination of CSS Custom Properties, CSS Transitions, and SVG Animations using stroke-dashoffset/stroke-dasharray.
Building Better Interfaces, a talk by Hakim El Hattab
At CSS Day 2019, I was fortunate to see Hakim El Hattab bring his talk Building Better Interfaces. A recording of his talk – and all other talks – are available on YouTube: This session is a deep-dive into the areas of interface design that Hakim has specialized in for over a decade—interactivity and animation. […]
Button Placement in Forms
Button placement on forms is often ignored or prioritised based on what looks good. But button placement can make or break a form, and a form can make or break a user’s experience. That’s why it’s essential to get it right. Here I’ll explain where to put buttons across a range of different forms based […]
pagemap, a mini map navigation for web pages
Many text editors nowadays sport a minimap on the right hand side of the screen. Pagemap is like that, but for webpages: To use it, position a canvas element fixed on your screen, and tell pagemap which elements to include in the map: <canvas id="map"></canvas> #map { position: fixed; top: 0; right: 0; width: 200px; […]
Steve Schoger | Refactoring UI — Tips and tricks to make a site visually more interesting
As seen at the most recent CSS Day. I’m quite sure this will help many developers to make their POCs/experiments visually more interesting: Sometimes when we look at a polished interface we can acknowledge that it looks good but it’s hard to articulate why it looks good. In this practical session, Steve will be explaining […]