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98.css - A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs

Well, this is a fun bit of CSS. Instantly transform a web page into a blast from the past (1998, to be precise).

Nuberodesign > Blog > In Praise of Buttons – Part One

I concur:

Just because a user interface uses 3D-buttons and some shading doesn’t mean that it has to look tacky. In fact, if you have to make the choice between tacky-but-usable and minimalistic-but-hard-to-use, tacky is the way to go. You don’t have to make that choice though: It’s perfectly possible to create something that is both good-looking and easy to use.

Kinopio’s Design Principles

Pirijan talks us through the design principles underpinning Kinopio, a tool I like very much:

1. Embrace Smallness by Embracing Code as a Living Design System
2. Building for Fidget-Ability, hmmm
3. Embrace Plain Text
4. A Single Interface for Mobile and Desktop
5. Refine by Pruning

Tabs in HTML?

I’ve been having some really interesting chats with Brian about tabs, markup, progressive enhancement and accessibility. Here’s a braindump of his current thinking which is well worth perusing.

Geri Reid - Forms best practice

This is a terrific collection of guidelines for form design.