#web-design

#web-design

Creating motion can be tricky. Too much and it's distracting. Too little and a design feels flat. Ambient animations are the middle ground - subtle, slow-moving details that add atmosphere without stealing the show. Unlike timeline-based animations, which tell stories across a sequence of events, or interaction animations that are triggered when someone touches something, ambient animations are the kind of passive movements you might not notice at first. But, they make a design look alive in subtle ways.

The thing is, the company I was working for had a dedicated photo team that provided beautiful, high-quality images with numerous contextual and action shots, perfect for web pages. So when what came to my desk was a classic full-page hero of an image with a gradient, I wasn't exactly surprised. But it did frustrate me that we couldn't come up with something more bold.

At some point, I think all web designers circle around to the thought that if design software was only more like the web itself that it would be better for it. We would gain efficiency in that there may not need be much translation at all between design and the finished product. Time and quality suffer during the translation required now.

The design of therapywarsaw.com is driven by a live generative system, creating a digital threshold that visually embodies the principles of psychotherapy.

AI-powered web browsers are transforming internet interactions by integrating conversational assistants, allowing users to automate workflows and retrieve information using natural language.

Parallax is a design pattern where webpage elements move at different speeds during scrolling, creating a layered, three-dimensional effect. Initially reliant on JavaScript, a recent CSS-only method has emerged, allowing smoother, non-blocking animations.

Google's sticky search bar feature, which allows the search bar to shrink and stick to the top of the page while scrolling, appears to be live for users.

Hearing the background track from a 2008 website transported me back in time, highlighting how music once shaped digital experiences.

When converting HTML to WordPress themes, excessive WordPress indices add numerous CSS classes that conflict with the original HTML layout and design, necessitating solutions to manage these classes.

Accessible typography benefits diverse user groups including older adults facing age-related vision change, people with cognitive and neurodivergent disabilities, and even non-native language speakers.

My browser displays images as I expect, but the h1 and h2 headings do not. They appear much smaller than I believe they should.

One of the major challenges web designers face is ensuring that websites function seamlessly across various browsers, as each may interpret code differently.

You wait 3 seconds. The last word fades out and a new one fades in: I call this design pattern The Wheel of Nothing: a rotating list of audience segments meant to impress through inclusion and draw attention through motion... for absolutely no reason.

Adding SMIL animations in SVG enhances design capabilities, going beyond what CSS animations can achieve and offering designers a semantic animation solution.

The collaboration with Uncommon Fruits reinforced the core belief that design can function as cultivation—creating conditions for new ideas to take root.