All Articles
567 articles published
Everything we've published - tools, tutorials, and practical guides for people who build websites for a living. New posts land here first.
PMI’s 2025 Pulse of the Profession found that roughly 1 in 5 enterprise IT projects still fail to meet their business goals. Standish Group…
html Every frame in Figma can hold auto layout. Switch it on and the frame starts managing its own contents, arranging them, spacing them,…
Blur in Figma lives in one place: the Effects panel on the right side of the screen. No toolbar icon, no filter menu, nothing…
Most Figma files break the moment content changes. Labels overflow buttons, cards collapse, spacing drifts, and what looked perfect at fixed dimensions falls apart…
Most designers discover Figma variables mid-project, when manually updating 40 color values across 12 frames finally breaks them. This Figma variables guide covers everything…
Most Figma files start clean. Six months later, the component library is a mess of detached instances, inconsistent naming, and duplicated states no one…
Most teams build the same components twice. Once in Figma, once in code, with no real connection between them. A well-built Figma design system…
Most design-to-code workflows break at the same point: the moment a designer shares a Figma file and assumes the developer has everything they need.…
Most designers already know how to use Figma for client presentations. They just haven’t figured out why their client review workflow keeps breaking down.…
Most design handoffs break down not because the design is bad, but because developers lack the context to build it accurately. This Figma dev…
html Corner radius lives in the Design tab of Figma’s right sidebar, a few fields below fill and stroke. It rounds the spot where…
Figma has 13 million monthly active users and is used by 95% of Fortune 500 companies. Yet most designers start without paying a cent.…
Most UI components break not because of bad code, but because nobody agreed on how to build them in the first place. Teams rebuild…
Rotation in Figma is one number on a layer. Not a transform matrix, not a separate tool, just a field near the top of…
Baymard Institute found that 46% of e-commerce sites with a homepage carousel have usability problems. Yet carousels remain one of the most widely used…
“Making a grid in Figma means picking between a layout guide and the Grid mode inside auto layout, renamed since May 2025.” Two separate…
A CSS gradient background is a programmatically generated image created through native CSS functions, requiring no external image file. Gradients are assigned to the background-image property,…
Custom software is becoming more important for businesses of all sizes today. Off-the-shelf tools can only go so far, and that’s why many companies…
Every app you use talks back to you. “Message sent.” “File saved.” “Connection lost.” These brief, auto-dismissing messages are called toast notifications, and they’re…
Dropdowns are everywhere. Every form you fill out, every navigation menu you hover over, every filter you apply on a shopping site. But most…
Building a SaaS product starts with validating an idea before scaling it. Launching too early with a full-featured product increases risk and slows learning.…
If you’re looking to implement Salesforce’s new Agentforce capabilities, you’re going to need the right partner. Not just someone who knows Salesforce basics. You…
There’s no carousel component in Figma. You fake one, either with an auto layout frame set to scroll horizontally, or with a stack of…
Open the Export panel in Figma, click the format dropdown, and you get PNG, JPG, SVG, PDF. No GIF. It isn’t a hidden setting…
html The gradient option sits one click away from the solid swatch in the Fill row, and most people never go looking for it.…
Most design tools still work the old way: you save a file, then send someone a copy of it. Figma dropped that step. The…
Text in Figma lives in one panel. Select a layer and the right sidebar hands you font, size, spacing, alignment, and the resizing rule…
The difference between a Figma file that stays workable and one that turns into a scavenger hunt usually comes down to a single decision:…
Improve your web design effortlessly with our CSS Box Shadow Generator. Perfect for designers and developers alike, it offers intuitive controls to craft precise…
Components, tokens, styles, and documentation living in one wired-together Figma file is what separates a design system from a folder someone named “UI Final…