When using CSS Grid Layout, you can always place items from one grid line to another. However, there is an alternate way of describing your layout, one that is visual in nature. In this article, we will learn how to use the grid-template-areas property to define placement on the grid and find out how the property really works. In case you missed the previous articles in this series, you can find them over here:

Editor's Note: We've been closely working with Maya on this article, and we're happy to see the final result now being published on 18F. We highly encourage more teams to share the lessons they learned when building design systems or pattern libraries, and we're always happy to support them in writing, editing and shaping that article. This post is a re-post of Maya's final article. Today, there are nearly 30,000 U.S. federal websites with almost no consistency between them. Between the hundreds of thousands of government employees working in technology, there's nothing in common with how these websites are built or maintained.The post Building A Large-Scale Design System: How A Design System Was Created For The U.S. Government (Case Study) appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Before you can become a User Experience (UX) designer, you need to understand the importance of UX, the reason it exists, what the goal of the UX designer is and how they think. Today we’re featuring a course in which you'll learn all about UX Design, what it is, what UX designers do, how UX […]

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In today’s Adobe Illustrator tutorial we’re going to create a striped text effect with a retro 70s vibe. We’ll create the effect by layering up a series of strokes and fills with Illustrator’s Appearance panel, which preserves the live text so you don’t lose the ability to edit the wording. Once the artwork is complete, […] The post Video Tutorial: Retro Striped Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

A good pitch deck is designed for specifically one thing - to help your startup get funding from investors. But how do you stand out from the crowd, and make a memorable impression? There's a delicate balance to creating a deck with just enough slides to entice potential funders, without providing so much information that […]

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