Here is a nice video by Paul Charlton showing how to create image effects using image masks. The tutorial uses the Bricks Builder, but the concepts apply for any builder.

A good article about the relationship between users’ mental models and design patterns.

The WordPress org home page was just redesigned. This is a huge improvement. Hat tip to Miriam Schwab who mentioned it on X.

Here are some design tips from the developer blog for creating patterns. The tips seem common-sense, but it is a good overview and checklist.

The Core Framework provides a user interface for creating and managing your CSS framework. The free version of the Core Framework is now available in the WordPress plugin directory. Congrats to the Core Framework team.

Many of the features of SASS have been incorporated into vanilla CSS. Though browser support is not universal enough, CSS is actively evolving. BTW, this topic came up on Kevin Geary’s WDD live yesterday and he mentioned that using variables in media queries is a features that SASS provides that modern CSS is still lacking.

Eric Karkovack is finding that clients grew up using the web, have heard the ads that anyone can create a website, and so want more design freedom. He suggests that people build sites for client with that flexibility in mind.

Here is a collection of small online CSS design tools organized into categories.

Rich Tabor shares some thoughts on the “composability” of block themes.