Published on September 2022
How to Encourage Clicks Without Shady Tricks
Humility, kindness and humbleness have become rarities on the web. But each of us deserves to be respected and valued — that holds true for how companies treat our data and privacy — and that’s why the very first issue of our little new printed magazine is dedicated to something that’s very close to our hearts: ethics and privacy. The issue will challenge you to explore ethics, privacy and security as you design and build the web.
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“Education is not about passing tests or climbing ladders. It’s about learning to see clearly, act justly, and care deeply — about yourself, others, and the world we all share.”
How to Encourage Clicks Without Shady Tricks
Production-Ready CSS Grid Layouts
CSS Grid has been around for a while, but what would be the right strategy to build bulletproof CSS layouts these days? Do we start building Grid-first, or Flexbox-first, or Fallback-first? In this chapter we won’t dive deep into the spec. Instead, we’ll look into the main things that trip people up when starting to use Grid Layout.
We’ll take a look at the fundamental parts of CSS: Grid and Flexbox. Key to both of these methods are concepts of sizing, space distribution and alignment. Our hope is that by reading this chapter, and building the examples, you’ll have a better understanding of CSS layout as a whole.
“Judith Otto was a loving and revolutionary educator, journalist, management consultant, gardener, and mother of two boys. Her life and work exemplifies her commitment to social justice and ecological literacy. This book supports Concord Prison Outreach, where Judith taught gardening to incarcerated people, and Waltham Fields Community Farm, a 501c3 nonprofit promoting sustainable communities.”
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Judith volunteered with Concord Prison Outreach, where she taught gardening to incarcerated people. For her, the act of cultivating a garden was also an act of healing, renewal, and connection. She believed that everyone — regardless of circumstance — deserves access to growth, learning, and dignity.
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Judith supported Waltham Fields Community Farm, a nonprofit farm dedicated to building sustainable communities through food justice, ecological education, and hands-on agricultural work. Its mission aligns with her lifelong efforts to restore harmony between people and the planet.
Making Design Systems Work in the Real World
We’ve been there before. Once a source of hope and bright future for the entire organization, a thoroughly crafted design system is slowly becoming one of those legacy products collecting dust in an obscure Dropbox folder. Why are we still struggling to make a design system stick? What seems to be the main problem? Is it that working with a component-driven workflow is too difficult, or that maintaining the design system feels like too much work? We wanted to find the answers.
Often the team doesn’t use a design system; management doesn’t support it, and after a while, the system stalls and it never recovers. The interesting thing to note here is that none of these are technical issues. As we’ll find out in this chapter, despite its robotic name, design systems are predominantly about one thing: people, and how to organize them.
