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🚀 [Case study] Context Chips in Survey Design: “Okay, but how does it feel?” This is about one of the novel UIs I designed when leading #StateOfHTML 2023 — the...
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Inline conditionals in CSS? • Lea Verou
Last week, the CSS WG resolved to add an inline if() to CSS. But what does that mean, and why is it exciting? Last week, we had a CSS WG face-to-face meeting...
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Inline conditionals in CSS, now? • Lea Verou
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Forget “show, don’t tell”. Engage, don’t show! • Lea Verou
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Minimalist Affordances: Making the right tradeoffs • Lea Verou
Usability and aesthetics usually go hand in hand. In fact, there is even what we call the “Aesthetic Usability Effect”: users perceive beautiful interfaces as...
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2 posts on Open Source • Lea Verou
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Help Design the Inaugural State of HTML Survey! • Lea Verou
You have likely participated in several Devographics surveys before, such as State of CSS, or State of JS. These surveys have become the primary source of...
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20 posts on News • Lea Verou
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11ty: Index ALL the things! • Lea Verou
This is a second spinoff post in the migration saga of this blog from WordPress to 11ty. On good URLs It was important to me to have good, RESTful, usable,...
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In the economy of user effort, be a bargain, not a scam • Lea Verou
Treat user effort as a currency. To create a product users love, design the tradeoff curve of use case complexity to user effort with the same care you design...
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I’m going to MIT!! • Lea Verou
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Forget “show, don’t tell”. Engage, don’t show! • Lea Verou
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8 posts on CSS Variables • Lea Verou
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Position Statement for the 2022 W3C TAG Election • Lea Verou
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The Hovercar Framework for Deliberate Product Design • Lea Verou
Many teams start with the MVP. But what if the key to shipping great products wasn’t starting small — but starting big? Could great products start at the...
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15 posts on Usability • Lea Verou
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🔥 I have news! After a 1y hiatus, I’m once again leading this year’s #StateOfHTML survey, thanks to generous funding by Google. ❤️ 🙋🏽♀️ Is there is an HTML...
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17 posts on Web Standards • Lea Verou
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Web Components are not Framework Components — and That’s Okay • Lea Verou
Disclaimer: This post expresses my opinions, which do not necessarily reflect consensus by the whole Web Components community. A blog post by Ryan Carniato...
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Bluesky Likes Web Components • Lea Verou
I set out to announce two components I wrote for displaying Bluesky likes and ended up ranting about the pain of building accessible, localizable web...
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Posts from 2022 • Lea Verou
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LCH colors in CSS: what, why, and how? • Lea Verou
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Influence the State of HTML 2025 Survey! • Lea Verou
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JS private class fields considered harmful • Lea Verou
Today I mourn. What am I mourning? Encapsulation. At least in my projects. As a library author, I’ve decided to avoid private class fields from now on and...
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Jul 8, 2025 - 🔥 I have news! After a 1y hiatus, I’m once again leading this year’s #StateOfHTML survey, thanks to generous funding by Google. ❤️ 🙋🏽♀️ Is there is an HTML...
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External import maps, today! • Lea Verou
A few weeks ago, I posted lamenting the current state of web dependencies. Turns out that external import maps — the lack of which I had identified as a core...
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Rethinking Categorization • Lea Verou
This is the third spinoff post in the migration saga of this blog from WordPress to 11ty. Migrating was a good opportunity to rethink the information...
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2 posts on Education • Lea Verou
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Context Chips in Survey Design: “Okay, but how does it feel?” • Lea Verou
The story of how a weird little UI to collect sentiment alongside survey responses defied constraints and triumphed over skepticism through usability testing.
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State of CSS 2022 now open! • Lea Verou
Take State of CSS 2022 survey A while ago I posted a call for feedback to inform the design of the State of CSS 2022 survey. The response has been overwhelming...
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2 posts on Design Thinking • Lea Verou
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State of HTML 2023 now open! • Lea Verou
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Style-observer: JS to observe CSS property changes, for reals • Lea Verou
I cannot count the number of times in my career I wished I could run JS in response to CSS property changes, regardless of what triggered them: media queries,...
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Construction Lines • Lea Verou
I recently stumbled across The Oatmeal’s series on Creativity. While all of it is spot on, the part on erasers hit especially hard. “There is a lot of shame...
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