Hey there! I wrote a book called Atomic Design that dives into this topic in more detail, which you can buy as an ebook. We’re not designing pages, we’re designing systems of components.—Stephen Hay As the craft of Web design continues to evolve, we're recognizing the need to develop thoughtful de
The “Other” Interface: Atomic Design With Sass — Smashing Magazine
As front-end developers and designers, we’re constantly refining two interfaces simultaneously: one for visitors who load the website, the other for developers who have to tackle the code in the future, when adjustments or full-scale redesigns must be made.
BEM: 4 Hang-Ups & How It Will Help Your CSS Organization
Sparkbox developer Philip Zastrow addresses four common misconceptions about BEM and explains how and why the CSS naming convention of Block Element Modifier helps solve organizational thinking around class names.
Over the last several years, the way I write CSS has transitioned from a "semantic" approach to something more like what people call "functional CSS." In this post I explain how I got to this point and share some of the lessons and insights I've picked up along the way.
Do you dread styling your apps? Fear that a change might break the styles you crafted through many hours of labour? I'm here to tell you that there's another way.
The perils of functional CSS (atomic CSS) | Browser London
Functional CSS (sometimes called atomic CSS) has risen in popularity recently, but what are it's benefits and what type of teams and projects does it suit?
.u-glue: A positioning pattern (algorithm? API?) | Lara Schenck
.u-glue is a CSS utility class (or what I would call an algorithm) that provides an API for positioning an element absolutely over another element. We are using it at PMC, and it's proven a useful model!
Subtitle: Why everybody who talks about the importance of semantics is both right and wrong at the same time. I’ve often heard people talk about semantic CSS. That is, the names we come up for ...
Managing Z-Index In A Component-Based Web Application — Smashing Magazine
The z-index property, despite all that’s written about it, is still widely misunderstood and mishandled. Stacking issues in a complex single-page web application can become a major pain. Adhering to some principles, however, we can easily avoid these issues.
As we wrap up our recent poll on ordering CSS properties, it brings up the larger issue of CSS style guides. Ordering properties is just one choice you