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The Fronteers Conference made a comeback this year with a fresh concept, presenting unique technical challenges that we were excited to tackle.  Fronteers Dark Mode would be a smaller, more intimate event. We’d start around four in the afternoon and run until after midnight—an evening of frontend. We’d have dinner, drinks, and five excellent speakers. […]

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Better availability of iA Notebook in the the U.S.

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CSS Custom Functions (@function) + CSS if() + CSS color-scheme() = one sweet combo!

If you thought we were done with View Transitions, guess again! A feature Chrome is working on, is “Scoped View Transitions”, which allow you to scope a VT to a subtree of the DOM. We are actively looking for feedback on this one.

A new View Transitions-related feature we shipped in Chrome 140 is the ability to nest ::view-transition-group() pseudos. This is useful for retaining visual effects such as clipping, move elements as part of a group, etc.

User-agent strings are weird. They inform the server which application is communicating with them. In the case of a web browser, this string can contain the name and version of the browser, but also information about the operating system and the device on which the browser is running. But browsers lie. They lie a lot, […]

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iA Presenter is now available on iPhone, iPad and Mac

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iA Presenter is now available on iPhone, iPad and Mac

After a couple of years in development, A Hand-Drawn Font is finally ready to meet the world. Yes, the font family is called A Hand-Drawn Font 🤷🏽🤪 It didn’t start in my sketchbooks, but from something more practical: lettering I used to label tools and materials around the studio. Later, while working on an autobiographical … Continue reading So I Made A Hand-Drawn Font… →

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Design or Kitsch?

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Design or Kitsch?

iA Notebook wins its second award this year

iA Notebook at Tokyo Big Sight

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At Middlesbrough Front End 2025 I gave a talk about some of the more exotic applications of View Transitions

Good design takes time

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Good design is long-lasting

At JSHeroes 2025 I gave a talk in Scroll-Driven Animations.

Slides + Recording of the talk “Supercharge Web UX with View Transitions” I gave at WebExpo.

For this year’s Google I/O, I recorded the session “Web animations today and tomorrow”. Check it out to learn how to guide, inform, and delight users by adding subtle and supportive animations to your web UIs.