text-decoration-offset is a good use case for em units. Most of the time we favor rems over ems, but in this case we want the text underline offset to proportionally scale with the font-size property. Here’s a quick demo:
https://webdesignernews.com/exploring-rare-em-unit-usage/
It’s been a horrible year for design. Mass layoffs from 2023 continued and got even worse. AI is threatening to take creatives’ jobs, designers need to go through up to 11 rounds of interviews to finally land a job. Once they do, they’re asked to perform the work that would take at least two or three designers to complete. https://webdesignernews.com/insights-from-our-designer-engagement-survey/
Are you tired of constantly feeling like you’re playing catch-up with the ever-evolving world of web design trends? You create a concept and — the next day you find out that it’s outdated. You google the latest tendencies and you’re overwhelmed with the suggestions. Which of them will work? https://webdesignernews.com/the-future-of-web-design/
he web is still a young platform, and we’re only now beginning to recognize what “success” looks like for large projects. In his recent Smashing book, Success at Scale, Addy Osmani presents practical case studies featuring the web’s most renowned companies and their efforts to make big changes to existing apps and sites. In this article, Addy shows some of the key insights he has learned. https://webdesignernews.com/insights-for-scaling-your-business-successfully/
There are so many twisty contradictions in our experiences with AI and the messages we receive about it. It’s smart, but it’s dumb. It’s here, but it’s yet to come. It’s big, but it’s small. So much opportunity, but so much risk. https://webdesignernews.com/ai-and-the-next-chapter-of-ux/
You can test your websites on multiple devices under multiple conditions in parallel. A set of well-thought tools and features allow you to develop and test for all use-cases without having to manually simulate them in a regular browser. https://webdesignernews.com/the-browser-for-web-developers/
Voice user interfaces (VUIs) are rapidly gaining popularity, allowing users to interact with devices like Amazon Alexa and Google Home using voice commands. https://webdesignernews.com/voice-interface-design/
Freeble provides a curated list of the best free online resources and tools. https://webdesignernews.com/discover-700-free-resources-and-tools/
CSS has an infinity constant. When I first learned about this, my brain lit up with all kinds of absurd possibilities. Let’s discuss! There might even be some practical use cases. https://webdesignernews.com/playing-with-infinity-in-css/
The design of alarm clocks has changed a lot over the years, and perhaps many of us will remember some iconic examples that integrated the snooze mode, such as the Braun Classic Analogue Travel Alarm Clock with Snooze and Light, produced in the late ’80s. https://webdesignernews.com/a-ringing-odyssey/