The Quiet Power of Plain HTML Forms
Native form elements have decades of accessibility, autofill, and platform integration baked in. A custom div-and-JavaScript dropdown rarely improves on <select> when measure…
Read article →Designing With prefers-reduced-motion
About 5% of users have prefers-reduced-motion set — vestibular disorders, headaches, or just a preference for calmer interfaces. Respect it.The CSS pattern: @media (prefers-reduced…
Read article →Search That Feels Instant
Three rules: debounce keystrokes, cancel in-flight requests, render results progressively. Together they make a slow backend feel responsive.The minimum debounce that still feels i…
Read article →Buttons vs Links: The Five-Second Rule
If the control navigates to a URL, use an anchor. If the control performs an action, use a button. Get this right and middle-click, copy-link,…
Read article →Core Web Vitals in 2026
The three Core Web Vitals are LCP (Largest Contentful Paint, ≤2.5s), INP (Interaction to Next Paint, ≤200ms), and CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift, ≤0.1). INP replaced…
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