"We're not designing pages anymore. We're designing systems of components." As with most things Stephen Hay says, he's right. Over the past few years, we've seen the Web community create style tiles, element collages, style guides, pattern librari...

In the early years of the web, there was a lot of experimentation and variation in where to put content on a web page. Then, it seems we all settled into a handful of patterns and stayed there for over a decade. It wasn’t until the arrival of resp...

As screens and input types evolve, we’re managing more complexity in our designs than ever before: our layouts are becoming more flexible and responsive; our interfaces, more immersive. Maybe we can look for simpler approaches? In this session, Et...

Kids spend a lot of time online, and their cognitive and physical limitations present many challenges to them when they do so. Pair that with poorly designed content and dark patterns, and you have a bad mix. As designers on the web, *we have a re...

Since the widespread adoption of CSS animations and transitions, animation has started creeping back into web design. Loading screens and “flashy” intros are back, as well as subtle UI interactions that invisibly improve the user’s experience. Rac...