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Art Deco Graphic Design: Let’s Talk About This Trend

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Are you a fan of The Great Gatsby? Do you just adore the Roaring Twenties, with its flapper dresses, extra-long cigarette holders, and swing dancing? Are you attracted to clean lines and bold design? Chances are you’re responding to the ethos of Art Deco design.

Art Deco Graphic Design
Russell Patterson / Public domain

Art Deco, a specific style of design from the early part of the 20th century, is seeing a resurgence like you won’t believe. 

Today, we’ll take a look at exactly what Art Deco design is and share with you some of the best Art Deco graphic designs as well as fonts affected by this riveting style. 

What Is Art Deco Design?

Artistic movements are often influenced by or respond to broader socio-political conditions, and this is no less so for Art Deco style.

Sumptuous and elegant, Art Deco designs marked the birth of a new optimism after the end of the First World War. 

Short for Arts Décoratifs, the term Art Deco first appeared in 1920s Paris and was taken from the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes.

Art Deco Graphic Design
Thomas H. Ince Corporation, Publisher / Public domain

Art Deco style drew inspiration from an eclectic combination of influences, materials, and previous art movements. Following its birth in Paris, the movement quickly gained a following around the world, adopting slightly different characteristics in each location and influencing a variety of creative disciplines, from design to visual arts to decorative arts, architecture, and fashion. 

In spite of the range of influences, Art Deco styles are unified by a celebration of the future, glamour, elegance, an emphasis on functionality, and an embrace of bold new ideas.

With all the challenges we now face with climate change, water shortages, and killer viruses, maybe designers are attracted to Art Deco design today because they want to recapture the optimism and belief in the future captured by the birth of the Art Deco movement. 

Art Deco Graphic Design
Federazione italiana nazionale fascista per la lotta contra la tubercolosi. Consorzi Provinciali Antitubercolari.

The Art Deco era came to an end with the beginning of the Second World War, which ushered in a new attitude to design, characterised by strict functionality and the unadorned styles of modernism.

Art Deco Characteristics

As mentioned, Art Deco style is a pastiche of many different and sometimes contradictory influences, all brought together under the desire to embrace modernity. For that reason, it presents itself more as a mosaic of styles rather than reflecting one single style. It does, however, exhibit some distinct and unifying characteristics.

Art Deco Graphic Design
One of the 1920s Art Deco Designs you can find today at Envato Elements and GraphicRiver
  • Art Deco Colour Palette: Art Deco colours tend to be rich, bright, and vibrant, an influence of Fauvism and the Ballets Russes. There’s also often a liberal use of gold, particularly in Art Deco typography. 
  • Art Deco Lines: Art Deco lines are straight, hard-edged, and smooth. Think streamlined elegance and sleek, exaggerated curves.
  • Art Deco Shapes: Art Deco shapes are usually bold, geometric, and symmetrical, and may include zigzags, chevron arrangements, and trapezoidal shapes.

15 Art Deco Examples (Designs You Can Download Today)

Let’s take a look at the resurgence of the Art Deco trend in graphic design with these 15 examples of Art Deco invitations, patterns, business cards, etc., all available at Envato Elements.

1. Art Deco Wedding Suite

Art Deco Graphic Design

Capture 1920s style and glamour with this Art Deco wedding invitation set. The set contains a main invitation card, an RSVP card, an information card, and a thank you card. They are presented in four layered PSD files and AI files that you can customise and edit to your heart’s content. A great way to celebrate 1920s graphic design.

2. Art Deco Business Card

Art Deco Graphic Design

Everyone needs a business card. Why not make yours distinct by incorporating the magic of Art Deco patterns and fonts? This business card is all you need to make that happen. This gorgeous Photoshop template is fully customisable and totally print ready. Just download, add your details, and your 1920s design is ready to send to the printers.

3. Art Deco 30 Awesome Vector Templates

Art Deco Graphic Design

This pack of Art Deco vectors can be used to create your own wonderful invitations and cards. There are 30 Art Deco designs included in easy-to-use EPS and PSD files. A great pack for experiment and creating fun projects. 

4. Art Deco Wedding Invitation

Art Deco Graphic Design

How elegant is this Art Deco invitation template? It can be used for general parties or as wedding invitations. The pack contains four 4×6 templates in both AI and PSD file formats. The vector files are well organised in layers so that you can easily customise every aspect of the design. 

5. 7 Art Deco Logo Frames

Art Deco Graphic Design

Looking for Art Deco borders that can be used for logos, wedding initials, or just about anything else? Then we have just the thing for you. This amazing collection contains seven unique Art Deco frames, including gold-foiled versions that are presented as high-res Photoshop files and black versions that are vector Illustrator files. 

6. Art Deco Ornament Pack

Art Deco Graphic Design

Check out this beautiful ornament pack, filled with gorgeous Art Deco shapes and designs that you can use in projects such as business cards, posters, invitations, greetings cards, etc. The files are delivered in PSD and AI format and can be scaled without loss of quality. 

7. Art Deco Seamless Patterns Vol 1

Art Deco Graphic Design

Looking for Art Deco wallpaper for a new project? These Art Deco backgrounds deliver the most gorgeous editable 1920s designs that are perfect for decorating your own posters, websites, banners, social media headers, fabric prints, and more. All patterns are provided as editable vector files, so you can easily customise them to suit your own designs. The pack contains ten Art Deco designs in both light and dark versions.

8. Art Deco Seamless Patterns Vol 2

Art Deco Graphic Design

If you liked Art Deco Seamless Patterns Vol 1, you’ll fall in love with this second volume of vintage Art Deco backgrounds, which offers even more awesome 1920s design inspiration. Like the first volume, this collection offers ten full editable Art Deco patterns that you can use in just about any project you can imagine. The files are presented in both PSD and AI file format and are fully scalable and editable. If you’re a fan of 1920s design, you won’t be able to resist this Art Deco wallpaper. 

9. Art Deco Wedding Invitation

Art Deco Graphic Design

Want to create an invitation that incorporates Art Deco motifs? Take a look at this Art Deco invitation. The template comes in 4×6 inch size with a + 0.125 bleed and is delivered as PSD and AI files that are layered and well organised, making it easy to edit all aspects of the design. 

10. Art Deco New Year Event Flyer

Art Deco Graphic Design

This Art Deco illustration is everything you need to create a gorgeous Art Deco flyer. The A4 template is delivered in PSD and AI files so that you can edit the text, image, font, and colour to your taste. A great example of the design ethos of the period.

11. Elegant Art Deco Restaurant Package

Art Deco Graphic Design

This is a great package for businesses in the hospitality industry. It features Art Deco artwork on one menu, two flyers, three table placecards, and four business cards. The package contains both PSD and AI files that are well organised in layers to make editing a cinch. Use your preferred software to add images, change text, and select your colour scheme, and your work is done. 

12. Art Deco Styles

Art Deco Graphic Design

These Art Deco design elements are exactly what you need to make a statement and stand apart from the crowd. The pack includes three Art Deco backgrounds, Art Deco number fonts and letters, and a collection of Art Deco vectors that you can use to create posters, invitations, business cards, etc. A terrific pack to experiment with if you love that 1920s style. 

13. Art Deco Labels

Art Deco Graphic Design

This set of Art Deco labels embodies all that makes the style great: stunning geometrics, solid lines, and strong fonts in lush gold. The pack contains both AI and EPS files that are fully scalable. 

14. Vintage Art Deco Boardwalk Poster Templates

Art Deco Graphic Design

You fans of 1920s graphic design will be very happy with this collection of six incredible Art Deco posters which are reminiscent of 1920s and 30s American dance hall and jazz club posters. With pre-set text paths, vector elements, and customisable layouts, this pack is an excellent resource if you want to create posters, websites, or branding for an Art Deco themed event.

15. Art Deco Wedding Invitation

Art Deco Graphic Design

Here’s one more Art Deco invitation, and a stunning one at that. This invitation displays all the wonderful hallmarks of Art Deco design with its diamond shape framed with clean bold text and patterned accents. The 4×6-inch invite is presented in four PSD and AI files and can be scaled without losing quality. It’s also fully editable, so it’s easy to create an invite that suits your specific needs.

15 Art Deco Examples (Fonts You Can Download Today)

The Art Deco graphic design trend offers its own wonderful array of fonts which make full use of the signature gold against black style of the original period. 

Art Deco typefaces are typically clean and bold and favour all caps lettering, though some can and do include lowercase characters. Characters vary from simple clean lines to the heavily ornate, but in Art Deco lettering, ornate tends to eschew long flourishes and swashes in favour of thick strokes with alternating lines or fills. Art Deco characters tend to be straight up and down, with the x-height of characters being exceptionally tall.

Both Envato Elements and GraphicRiver offer high-quality Art Deco fonts to help you create stunning projects. Let’s take a look at some of the best Art Deco fonts available there today. 

1. DECOtype

Art Deco Font

A wonderfully ornate Art Deco Great Gatsby font style with a twist all of its own, this decorative typeface combines solid shapes with lines to create an eye-catching and unique look. If you are in the market for a stunning Art Deco font, this is one that you need to check out. 

2. Metropolis Typeface

Art Deco Font

If you are looking for Art Deco lettering that closely mirrors the original Gatsby novel, this is it. This elegant Art Deco font includes uppercase letters, numbers, and punctuation. The set includes over 50 Art Deco themed ornaments, and you can toggle the caps lock to access alternate characters.

3. Kaiju

Art Deco Font

This elegant Art Deco font style is a display font composed of two sets of uppercase letters that allow users to mix and match the two styles to create their own unique signature text. This one would work well for branding, logos, or signage.

4. Strip Deco

Art Deco Font

Though not the font used on the cover of the 1920s classic novel The Great Gatsby, this style of font has nonetheless become known as the Art Deco Great Gatsby font in some circles because of the typeface used on the poster for the 2013 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The beautiful Art Deco font style features uppercase multilingual letters, numbers, and punctuation.

5. Ironclad Typeface

Art Deco Font

As you can see, this 1920s font has clean, bold, rounded lines, which are one of the hallmarks of Art Deco typefaces. The font comes in three weights and includes multilingual uppercase letters, numbers, and punctuation. Be warned: the gold effect in the cover image is not included, so you’d have to create that effect yourself.

6. Haarlem Deco

Art Deco Font

Classic Art Deco font styles like this one can add loads of style to any project. The uppercase-only typeface takes its inspiration from both 1920s Art Deco font styles and vintage Euro-American signage lettering. The set comes with over 300 alternate and multilingual characters included.

7. Bridge Line

Art Deco Font

This classic 1920s Art Deco font captures the striking geometry and rich decadence of the era. The bold display font offers both upper and lowercase Latin alphabet, numbers, and punctuation in OTF, TTF, and WOFF. Great for movie titles, posters, and invitations. 

8. Bagiewise – Luxury Art Deco Typeface

Art Deco Font

If you’re in the market for a stylish 1920s font, this one is worth a try. You can use it for any number of projects where you need a strong display font. The set includes upper and lowercase Latin alphabet, numbers, punctuation, and various international characters.

9. Magnate Typeface

Art Deco Font

Another Art Deco Great Gatsby font inspired by the 2013 Gatsby movie poster, this striking display font offers clean, bold lines that catch the eye and would work well for logos, apparel, product packaging, posters, etc. The font offers uppercase  letters, numbers, punctuation, symbols, and alternates. 

10. Artikullash – Elegant Art Deco Typeface

Art Deco Font

Looking for an awesome display font with a vintage feel? Check out this Art Deco font that offers lots of curves and solid lines. A great choice for elegant signage, banners, and branding materials, the font is offered in both upper and lowercase Latin alphabet, numbers, and punctuation and also includes international characters. 

11. Sojourn Typeface

Art Deco Font

Spice up your branding projects or your next poster design with this awesome Art Deco font. The uppercase multilingual typeface also includes numbers and punctuation. 

12. Fontaine Typeface

Art Deco Font

This is a bold Art Deco font for posters, titles, signage, and other projects when you need a clean yet stylish font that captures the eye. The set includes uppercase letters, numerals, and some punctuation.

13. Murray – Art Deco Display Typeface

Art Deco Font

Check out the awesome Murray Art Deco font—ideal if you’re looking for a vintage style with a subtle 1920s Art Deco style feel. This is an excellent choice for banners, invitations, branding, and signage, and it includes both upper and lowercase Latin alphabet, numbers, and punctuation.

14. Avina Uppercase Font

Art Deco Font

A distinctly modern font with Art Deco font stylistic influences, Avina is an uppercase font that’s great for posters, headers, and logos.

15. Emporia Typeface

Art Deco Font
Just one of the fabulous Art Deco Fonts found at Envato Elements

We round off our awesome list of Art Deco typefaces with this wonderful font, Emporia. It’s offered in two styles: regular and rough. This is the font of choice when you want to communicate elegance and exclusivity. The set includes uppercase letters, numbers, and punctuation, as well as two bonus textures. 

Choose your Favourite Art Deco Font or Graphic Template Today

Well, there you have it: a brief history of the Art Deco period, the characteristics that define Art Deco, and how we’re seeing a resurgence of Art Deco graphic design today. Why not use one of these terrific designs from Envato Elements and GraphicRiver in your next project and share it with us in the comments below?

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BusConnects: Working it out Together

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Outdoor, Online
BusConnects

BusConnects, a division of the National Transport Authority, launched their second round of public consultation for the Core Bus Corridor Project with an expansive through the line campaign created by TBWA\Dublin. The campaign visuals, by Watermark Studios, feature an intricate representation of Dublin city as a Rubik’s cube being solved thanks to the collaborative efforts of the public and BusConnects.

Advertising Agency:TBWA, Dublin, Ireland
Ceo:Deirdre Waldron
Head Of Account Management:Paula Kelly
Executive Creative Director:Des Creedon
Business Director:Yvonne Caplice
Creative Director:Clayton Homer, Dillon Elliott
Art Director:Mikey Ryan
Copywriter:Blaise Hoban
Account Director:Eibhin McLoughlin
Account Executive:Alana Ryan
Producer:Sarah Collins
Senior Strategist:Shane Kelly
Digital Artist:Watermark Creative

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World Health Organization Health: COVID-19 Tales

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Print, Online
World Health Organization

He is trapped in a dystopia against the world coronavirus. We, as humans, are closed to our homes in order to survive this epidemic that will happen every few centuries. At least many of us … Despite all the warnings of the authorities, there are millions of people who did not stay at home and caused the virus to spread. These warnings have a fabulous and unrealistic effect on themselves. In this direction, we; On behalf of the World Health Organization, we prepared a campaign called #Covid19Tales, which contains dark tales that end up with people.

Advertising Agency:Creasoup, Istanbul, Turkey
Copywriter & Creative Director:Erhan Cirak
Illustration + Animation:Ethem Onur Bilgiç
Voiceover:Aslı İnandık
Sound Designer:Ömer Arısoy

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How to Design Sales Funnels That Convert

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According to Pardot, 79% of marketing campaigns never lead to purchases. Only 4% of website visitors make up their mind to make a purchase.

So you ask yourself, where does the other 96% go? Well, they never buy, but there is something you can do.

What they need is encouragement and nurturing. Whilst this is what sales funnels essentially try to do, it’s not as easy as you may think.

It is one thing to build a sales funnel but entirely another thing to design a funnel pathway that converts as many visitors to buyers as possible.

Here are some tips to show you what I mean.

1. Repositioning your Call-to-Action Button

The call-to-action is a vital feature that shifts visitors from one end of the funnel to the other. It is what moves your subscribers to buyers. How you approach the CTA will determine your conversion rate in a great deal.

For too long, content marketers have been making a mistake of using just one CTA at the end of the funnel. As readers’ attention spans are continuously changing, this is not enough. Most of them only reach to the middle of the process before something else piques their attention.

It’s advisable to also place the CTA at the top and bottom of the funnel. The one placed on the top of the funnel does the primary task of calling a subscriber to join a mailing list. The one at the bottom encourages the visitors to sign up for a service or buy a product.

In addition, the CTA should make it easy for the visitors to perform the action you want them to.  Create an easy-to-use form and distribute it over the page.

2. Working on Your Landing Page

Landing pages are excellent ways to promote every stage of your funnel. Since sales funnels are divided into three parts, you should have a landing page for each level.

This gives you room to increase the number of people you can capture. One landing page that works for the whole website will not yield the same results.

In all the steps, the sales funnel should follow this procedure;

  1. Attract customers
  2. Engage the customer
  3. Make the customers buy

The result you get here will help you analyze your business and the areas you need to improve.

3. Using the Right Navigation Layout

Many visitors use their phones to access websites. According to Smashing magazine, it’s because of this reason that website content should be kept minimum.

But because we are talking about designing a converting sales funnel, you must include all the details that will make or break their purchasing decision.

4. Eliminating Distractions

You might have a perfectly curated sales funnel, but if it has a lot of distractions, you automatically interfere with the design flow.

People make decisions quickly on whether they should stay on a website longer or not. If your page has a lot of distracting features like sidebars, top navigations, or too many images, visitors are likely to bounce off your site.

Every section within the funnel should answer whether it is the final stop or leads to another page. If there is anything else that will distract your visitors or direct them to click away, delete them.

Conclusion

You will agree that coming up with an effective sales funnel is an uphill battle. However, they still remain an essential weapon in content marketing strategies. If you need some inspiration have a look at these sales funnel templates from Performance Funnels. To convert the most visitors, it advisable that you take into account even the smallest things. It’s such alterations that will help you maximise sales at the end of the day.

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5 Important Tips When Building Your First Mobile App

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Building a mobile application is a complex process, and mistake can be costly in time and money. To make sure that your mobile app projects are a success, here are a few tips that will be helpful.

1. Plan Ahead

When building anything complex, you should never start without a plan. Building a mobile app is no exception. To plan ahead for an app, you’ll have to do extensive thinking to make sure you are not forgetting any important functionalities. Some of the steps you should follow include:

  1. Brainstorming: get together with your team and go wild while looking for ideas. Once you feel like you went through all important ideas, organize the results of your brainstorming sessions by structuring the features you keep and eliminating useless ones.
  2. Do your research: chances are that you are not the first one to have had the idea for the app you are about to create. Search for apps that serve a similar purpose, or at least that target similar audiences if your idea is truly unique. Try to understand what makes the app successful (or not) and look at the way they are doing business (promotion, pricing,…).
  3. Create a comprehensive final list of functional and technical specifications: a crucial step to ensure you will not have too many surprises along the way while developing the app.
  4. Create an app flowchart: maybe the most important step of all. The app flowchart will give you the opportunity to identify the most important “nodes” in your app, as well as the relationship between various functionalities.
  5. List your technical challenges: if you practice the “Getting Things Done” methodology by David Allen, you already know that listing your technical challenges will actually help you solve it by already putting it in your mind, as well as eliminating the surprise effect.

2. Build a Wireframe

As counter-intuitive as it may sound on a design blog, a design-free environment will allow you to create better designed apps. In fact, working on a wireframe will force you to focus on the functional parts of your app design, and prevent you from “prettifying” things to hide your apps flaws.

To make your wireframes more efficient, start by sketching it on paper to get your ideas flowing and work quicker. Try to go for as many ideas as possible.

Use a grid in your wireframes already, grids will make your layout work easier and more stable. Also, try to insert the real content early-on in the process. Dummy content actually doesn’t add any value to the app creation process.

If possible, I would also suggest to try to go colorless. It may be harder, but this type of constrain forces you to be even more sure of the way you lay out the functionalities. When working with a team, you should also annotate your wireframes to better communicate with others.

3. Go for a Quick MVP

Once your mobile app’s preliminary work has been done thoroughly, you should try to go for a quick MVP for your mobile app.

There are several reasons for trying to release quickly and often. First, it can give you a competitive edge on other mobile apps similar to yours. It also gives you the opportunity to quickly understand what your users like or not by observing their behavior and collecting their feedback. At last but not least, it will help you avoid heavy development costs on features that you would have abandoned anyway.

Obviously, this advice doesn’t mean that you should release unfinished work. Releasing with less features should never equate with buggy software.

4. Test, Test, Test, and Test Some More

It is important to understand that there is a major difference between what you think that your users are going to do, and how they effectively behave.

For that reason, testing is a crucial part of app development. Organize user testing sessions where you ask them to perform some tasks and observe their behavior. All data and feedbacks should be collected for analysis and later use.

5. Revise and Maintain

Of course, testing is not useful if it’s not followed by revisions on the app. You need to take your user testing into account and make changes accordingly.

On the longer term, it is important to keep your mobile app updated and regularly fix bugs and add new features. Through the download platforms, you will get regular feeback and comments from your users, you should show them that you care and use their experience to make your software better.

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CSS Foldable Display Polyfill

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Foldable phones are starting to be a thing. Early days, for sure, but some are already shipping, and they definitely have web browsers on them. Stands to reason that, as web designers, we are going to want to know where that fold is so we can design screens that fit onto the top half and bottom half… or left half and right half¹.

Looks like that’s going to make its way to us in the form of env() constants, just like all that notch stuff.

The code block in the polyfill repo is:

@media (spanning: single-fold-vertical) {
  body {
    flex-direction: row;
  }
  .map {
    flex: 1 1 env(fold-left)
  }
  .locations-list {
    flex: 1;
  }
}

I would also think it could be…

@media (spanning: single-fold-vertical) {
  .page-wrap {
    display: grid;
    grid-template-columns: env(fold-left) 1fr;
  }
}

Interesting how there is no fold-right, isn’t it? And aren’t we trying to stay away from directional terms like that and use logical properties? Why not fold-inline-start?

  1. It’ll be interesting to see how that sentence ages. Just watch the first really popular foldable phone will have three segments.

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Create Diagonal Layouts Like it’s 2020

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Nils Binder covers the ways:

1. Use an SVG in the form of a triangle. This technique is nicely described by Erik Kennedy on CSS-Tricks.

2. Hide part of your section using clip-path. Read Diagonal Containers in CSS by Sebastiano Guerriero or Sloped edges with consistent angle in CSS by Kilian Valkhof.

3. Using CSS Transforms

I would normally be a #2 kinda guy — slice off the top and bottom a bit, make sure there is ample padding, and call it a day. But Nils almost has me convinced this fancy math is better.

Here’s a kinda dumb clip-path way:

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And Nils incredibly fancy playground:

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Thinking in Behaviors, Not Screen Sizes

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Chase McCoy wrote a nifty post about the “gap problem” when making a grid of items. His argument might be summarized like this: how should we space elements with margins in CSS? He notes that the gap property isn’t quite ready for prime time when it comes to using it with flexbox, like this:

.grid {
  display: flex;
  gap: 10px;
}

Right now, using gap with flexbox is only supported in Firefox and I’ve already caught myself forgetting about that in a few projects. So watch out for that.

Anyway, the part about Chase’s blog post that I love is where he mentions Andy Bell’s technique for creating a responsive layout with no media queries, like this:

.grid {
  display: grid;
  grid-gap: 10px;
  grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(150px, 1fr));
}

This CSS is doing the following:

  • Make a grid with a 10px gap between each column and row.
  • Each column should have a minimum width (150px).
  • Each column should also be equal width (1fr).
  • The grid should auto-fill as many columns that can fit.

The nifty thing about all this is that our grid is now effectively responsive because of minmax — if you resize the browser, then the grid will snap down into fewer columns, just like this:

No media queries at all! Although sure, there’s a few other ways that you could get this to work but I think this is neat not just because we’re avoiding media queries — instead, it’s because it teaches us to think in a new way when designing and building components.

Chase continues:

With this technique, instead of using breakpoints to specify the screen size where your items should stack, you specify the minimum size an element should be before it stacks. I like this because it encourages developers to think about responsive design in terms of behaviors instead of screen sizes.

“Behaviors instead of screen sizes” is such a great way to think about component design! A lot of the problems I’ve encountered when making components for a design system is when I’ve been thinking about screen sizes — mobile, tablet, desktop, etc. — and trying to make those components fit within those constraints.

Thinking in behaviors is always more effective because there are so many things that can impact a component beyond what screen or device width we’re working with. Perhaps we want that component to fit inside another component. Or we want to align some helper text to the side of it for comparison.

Either way, thinking about behaviors instead of screen sizes isn’t really going to be fully impossible until we have container queries, as Chris writes:

Container queries are always on the top of the list of requested improvements to CSS. The general sentiment is that if we had container queries, we wouldn’t write as many global media queries based on page size. That’s because we’re actually trying to control a more scoped container, and the only reason we use media queries for that now is because it’s the best tool we have in CSS. I absolutely believe that.

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