The Garden and The Treadmill

When CSS Zen Garden launched, we saw loads of creativity with CSS despite its limits at the time. Now, we have most of the CSS features we wanted to have back then. But do we use them? Have we become more creative because of them? Is our work simpler? We tend to want what we don't have, and we don't always use what we do. Let's look at how it's now possible to do layout at the speed of thought and prototype à la CSS Zen Garden almost as quickly as we can sketch.

When Design Systems Lie

Design systems come with promises. But sometimes they lie. Let’s explore when this happens, why it happens, and what we might do about it.

CSS for Evil, not Good.

Fact one: The language we use for designing the Web is a constantly evolving, powerful tool. Fact two: People who stand to gain something from you have a motive to deceive. In this presentation, Stephen explores the dark—and sometimes scary—space where both meet.

The Back(side) of the Class

Have you ever been taught that “modularizing” CSS via an endless number of “reusable” object-like “classes” is the “proper” way to use CSS on “large-scale websites”, or have you taught others that these are “best practices”? Do you think there’s a difference between the term “large-scale websites” and “enterprise websites”? When I say “inheritance” and “specificity”, do you feel dirty? If you answered yes to the above questions, then you, my friend, are going to absolutely hate this session.

Flexbox