We Create Custom Web Apps & Design Systems

We enjoy working with teams pursuing large-scale projects to plan, design, and develop tailor-made web applications and design systems. As industry experts, we’d love to help you improve team workflow, lower maintenance costs, and solve problems that help people.

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Upcoming Workshop

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Cascading Style Systems

A workshop on resilient & maintainable CSS

by Miriam

New CSS features are shipping at an unprecedented rate – cascade layers, container queries, the :has() selector, subgrid, nesting, and so much more. It’s a good time to step back and understand how these tools fit together in a declarative system – a resilient cascade of styles.

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Speeding Up Your Sass Compilation in Vite and Webpack

A quick guide to adopting the modern Sass API

by James Stuckey Weber on Aug 14

Sass compilation can be a speed bottleneck in your build, but it doesn’t have to be anymore.

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Partial Feature Queries, Relaxed Layout Containment, and More

CSS Working Group updates from July

by Miriam Suzanne on Aug 13

Over the last month, the CSS Working Group has determined we can loosen containment restrictions for query containers, and agreed on a syntax for special-case support queries (like support for the gap property in a flex context, or support for align-content in a block flow context).

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Learn CSS Grid First

on Winging It episode 10 with Miriam & Stacy on Jul 23 | 54 mins

We talk with Stephanie Eckles – the brain behind ModernCSS.dev and SmolCSS.dev – about CSS grids. We look at a few of the most common grid patterns, to show you how (and why) you can get started working grids into your CSS toolkit!

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CSS Working Group Updates for June & July

What I’ve been working on as an Invited Expert

by Miriam Suzanne on Jul 22

The CSS Working Group has regular face-to-face meetings (hybrid online/in-person) throughout the year, and they always result in a flurry of activity! Here’s a rundown of some highlights from the last few months, with a focus on the features I maintain.

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OddBird became an extension of our team bringing UX, frontend, and backend brilliance to take MetaDeploy from an idea into a production application.

—Jason Lantz, Sr. Director of Release Engineering at Salesforce.org

OddBird is a company I recommend without reservation. They are among the best in the world at front end, design systems, and w3c standards.

—Nicole Sullivan, Product Manager for Web UI at Google Chrome

Other developers build exactly what you say, or they don’t understand, and develop the wrong thing. OddBird always thinks about the project goals. I defer to the team expertise now, which makes a better result.

—Rohit Puranik, Founder at Lab06

Miriam is a fantastic speaker, with wonderful teaching skills, and highly praised by attendees of the conference and the workshop alike.

—Vitaly Friedman, Founder at Smashing Magazine & Conference

Jump Start Sass, by Miriam Suzanne and Kitty Giraudel

As core contributors to CSS, Sass, and Django, we write the books, help create the languages, and build the OSS projects millions of other developers rely on. Bringing that expertise to your custom web projects, we focus on accessibility, performance, resilient design systems, and well-tested code.

Full Range of Services:

Branding & Logo Design
User Research & Concepting
UI/UX Design (OOUX)
Python on the backend (Django, FastAPI)
CSS & Sass on the frontend
JavaScript (Svelte, Vue, React, Node, etc.)
Design Systems & Component Libraries
Accessible HTML

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OddBird was the wise investment. We could have selected a cheaper avenue for this work – we would have paid for it manifold in the long run.

—Furman Brown, Founder at Tegy

Since OddBird thinks about handoff from the beginning, maintenance has been super easy. For example, 100% unit test coverage was a given. I never had to ask for it.

—Sara Taillon, CTO at ORCAS

Hi, I’m Miriam

I co-founded OddBird with my brothers in 2008 as a full-stack, boutique agency to provide custom web application design & development, along with refactors for integrated design systems, accessibility, performance, and long-term sustainability.

Since then OddBird has become an industry leader – from our work on Django, Sass, and Susy, to the CSS Working Group, Mozilla Developer Channel, Object Oriented UX, and in-depth conference talks on front-end architecture, workflow, component libraries, testing, and documentation.

We’d love to help you thoughtfully serve people with technology.

—Miriam Suzanne