Websites Should Be Printable(brennenputh.me)
115 points by bagatelle | 106 comments
A personal blog post arguing websites should be printable, sharing the author's @media print CSS snippet for hiding headers, adjusting font sizes, and styling links.
#web-design on Hacker News
29 stories tagged web-design, newest first.
Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades(debugbear.com)
338 points by jgx0 | 229 comments
A DebugBear blog post examining the recent redesign of example.com, the IANA-reserved documentation domain, and the history of its visual appearance over 20+ years.
How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it(railcode.dev)
98 points by yakkomajuri | 53 comments
A Railcode founder's blog post about how using coding agents to build the company website made him more interested in design and produced a designer-quality result.
Book of Shapes – Collection of minimal, generative and customizable SVG-patterns(bookofshapes.com)
246 points by eustoria | 23 comments
Book of Shapes is a collection of minimal, generative and customizable SVG patterns created by Nikolaj Sokolowski.
Stolen Buttons(anatolyzenkov.com)
648 points by Gecko4072 | 157 comments
A gallery of website buttons collected by Anatoly Zenkov's Button Stealer extension, which grabs a button from every site he visits.
Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history(vpd.ca)
334 points by LookAtThatBacon | 131 comments
Homepage of the Vancouver Police Department website, noted for a Quick Escape button that removes the site from browser history.
98% isn't much(whynothugo.nl)
464 points by speckx | 306 comments
A blog post arguing that 98% success rates are inadequate for basic expectations, such as websites relying on new browser features that fail for millions of users.
Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste(svgbackgrounds.com)
335 points by visiwig | 63 comments
A collection of free, customizable SVG backgrounds and patterns that can be copied and pasted into websites, with paid all-access option.
Death to Scroll Fade(dbushell.com)
352 points by PaulHoule | 192 comments
A blog post by David Bushell criticizing scroll-fade animations on websites, deliberately demonstrating the effect while ignoring reduced-motion preferences.
The fuck off contact page(nicchan.me)
381 points by OuterVale | 146 comments
Blog post by Nic Chan about being asked to build a 'fuck off contact page' that discourages users from contacting a business, and how to push back.
The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)(thecascade.dev)
670 points by loughnane | 290 comments
TheCascade article showing the minimal set of CSS rules needed to make a plain web page look decent without over-engineering.
Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web(loadmo.re)
374 points by surprisetalk | 51 comments
Loadmo.re is a gallery of mobile websites showcasing design inspiration for unconventional web design, with 362 sites posted and tag filtering.
Just let me select text(aartaka.me)
765 points by ayoisaiah | 521 comments
Blog post by Artyom Bologov arguing that websites and apps should not prevent users from selecting text.
Purposeful animations(emilkowal.ski)
505 points by jakelazaroff | 127 comments
Essay by design engineer Emil Kowalski on when and how to use UI animations purposefully so they improve rather than harm the user experience.
What are OKLCH colors?(jakub.kr)
777 points by tontonius | 174 comments
An explainer on the OKLCH color model, a perceptually uniform color space, with interactive color swatch examples.
My website is ugly because I made it(goodinternetmagazine.com)
508 points by surprisetalk | 123 comments
Good Internet magazine essay in its Webweaving section arguing for personal, self-made websites even if they look ugly, by the creator of taylor.town.
Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers(uchu.style)
600 points by NetOpWibby | 245 comments
Landing page for Uchū, an open color scheme/palette by NetOperator Wibby, with links to its repo and a simple palette view.
Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you(rachelbythebay.com)
470 points by todsacerdoti | 244 comments
A blog post by Rachel Kroll listing common web page annoyances, such as popups and tracking, that her own site deliberately avoids.
Show HN: HTML for People(htmlforpeople.com)
568 points by blakewatson | 200 comments
HTML for People is a free online guide teaching beginners how to build websites with plain HTML and CSS.
The Monospace Web(owickstrom.github.io)
545 points by mrunseen | 135 comments
The Monospace Web is a minimalist web design exploration by Oskar Wickström that uses monospace fonts and a character grid layout, released under the MIT license.
Examples of Great URL Design (2023)(blog.jim-nielsen.com)
333 points by r4um | 134 comments
Jim Nielsen blog post collecting and discussing examples of well-designed URLs on the web, building on Kyle Aster's 2010 essay on URL design.
Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites(danilafe.com)
831 points by fabianholzer | 349 comments
A blog post cataloguing small convenience features the author likes in blogs and personal websites, inspired by Hillel Wayne's language microfeatures article.
Making noisy SVGs(daniel.do)
449 points by dimmke | 83 comments
Daniel Immke's blog post explaining how to add noise texture to SVG graphics using only code.
Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document(portugaltheman.com)
511 points by nateb2022 | 164 comments
The official website of the band Portugal. The Man, built as a published Google Sheets document with tabs for tour, videos, vinyl, store, and an email signup.
Scrollbars are becoming a problem(artemis.sh)
737 points by dredmorbius | 708 comments
A blog post arguing that shrinking and hidden scrollbars in modern interfaces harm usability, especially for people with motor control problems.
Icon Buddy – 100K+ Open Source SVG Icons, Fully Customizable(iconbuddy.app)
387 points by mddanishyusuf | 42 comments
Iconbuddy is a web app for searching, customizing, and downloading over 100,000 open source SVG icons from 156 icon collections.
Don't use custom CSS scrollbars(ericwbailey.website)
338 points by Twixes | 210 comments
Blog post by Eric Bailey arguing against styling custom scrollbars with CSS, citing accessibility and usability concerns.
Show HN: I made CSS Pro, a re-imagined Devtools for web design(csspro.com)
444 points by guivr | 251 comments
Landing page for CSS Pro, a visual editor that reimagines browser devtools for editing website designs and generating CSS code.
Don’t open the details in a modal window, have it be a separate page(youdontneedamodalwindow.dev)
345 points by return_to_monke | 235 comments
A single-page argument site advising web developers to show master/detail views on a separate page rather than in a modal window.