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Refactoring GitHub's Design
Reducing an interface until only the absolutely necessary elements remain is one of the most satisfying tasks in design.
Ian Storm Taylor
Co-founder of Segment, and ex-RISD Graphic Design. I write about design, programming, and pretty much anything systems related.
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Media Queries are a Hack
The big buzzwords in CSS these days are “modular” and “responsive”—and for good reasons. But we’re still trying to achieve those goals with the wrong tool: Media Queries. What we really need is a tool that doesn’t exist yet: Element Queries.
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OOCSS + Sass = The best way to CSS
Object-oriented CSS is awesome. But littering your markup with non-semantic classes is not awesome. Those classes sprinkled all over your HTML are going to change, and that’s not gonna be fun. But if you combine OOCSS and Sass you get the best of both worlds: modular CSS without bloated, hard-to-maintain HTML.