Best Design Blog

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Google Aims to Level the Playing Field for SERP Results

The contemporary landscape of web design has given rise to an Internet-wide contest in which websites everywhere must adhere to vaguely codified rules to have a hope of ranking highly on Google's SERPs. Because SEO incentivizes it, websites must feature certain patterns in both ...

Design Community Member Promotes CSS Variables

In a large online design community, a person shared a link to an article about practical use cases for CSS variables. When the author of the article first started to use them, they weren't afraid of the potential. When CSS variables are used the ...

Websites With Dark Patterns: Learn About and Avoid Them

What are websites with dark patterns? They are sites that use manipulative tactics to trick consumers into purchasing or signing up for unwanted products or services. They can also get people to provide personal information using deceptive tactics. The FCC investigates unfair practices and enforcing consumer ...

Codepen.io Exhibits Client-Led and JavaScript-Scripted Elements

Client-side processing for aesthetic elements on web pages is a powerful advancement in functional web design because it does not force the user to laboriously transfer self-contained files stored on the server side and load them before they can start displaying. Because the visual elements are ...