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18 Designers Predict UI/UX Trends for 2018

by Miriam Suzanne at Figma on

Figma asked 18 designers (including me) what UI/UX trends they predict for 2018. December, with its flurry of holiday parties, cheery out-of-office auto-replies and introspective weather patterns, provided the perfect opportunity to pause and survey the landscape.

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Improvements in CSS will affect web design in surprising ways

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There’s a lot to be excited about in CSS – integrating new tools, like Grid and Custom Properties, with existing features like Calc and Viewport Units. Modern CSS allow a new level of interaction, responsiveness, and data-visualization that previously required extensive Javascript involvement. I’m excited to see what new trends grow out of that technology.

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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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    5 Questions for Miriam Suzanne

    Miriam Suzanne at Frontend Dogma on

    I talked with Jens Oliver Meiert over at Frontend Dogma about our work here at OddBird, what’s happening in the CSS Working Group, and advice for getting started in frontend development.

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    CSS @scope

    Keep selector conflicts to a minimum

    Miriam Suzanne at 12 Days of Web on

    The new @scope rule is here! It’s a better way to keep our component styles contained – without relying on third-party tools or extreme naming conventions.

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    Sass Package Importer (Request for Comments)

    A new proposal for importing from NPM packages in Sass

    James Stuckey Weber at Sass Blog on

    UI libraries like Vuetify and Bootstrap make it easy to extend their themes by providing Sass source files with their NPM packages. Now, Sass is requesting feedback on a simpler way to import those libraries into your Sass styles with e.g. @use "pkg:bootstrap".

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