/wd/ - Web Design

Starting a discussion thread for /wd/.

This board focuses on Web Design. Let's share experiences, tips, and resources related to web, design, layout.

What are you working on? What challenges are you facing? Share your thoughts!

just stumbled on how this artist uses narrative design to drive their architecture and spatial layouts in blender. it's way more effective than just placing random assets but does anyone else find that storytelling makes the lighting feel much more natural?

more here: https://www.creativebloq.com/3d/3d-art/building-a-world-through-narrative-design-in-blender

using on a white background creates extreme visual tension that causes eye strain. try using a very dark grey like

color: #1a1a1a;

to make long reading sessions much more comfortable. it makes the design feel more premium and intentional

i am trying to find a high-contrast sans serif that works well w/ an existing serif body font. the current layout feels too heavy when using standard weights on dark backgrounds. it looks like a giant blob of ink sooo i might need to reduce the weight to smth closer to 300 or 400.

just stumbled onto a piece about probabilistic design and it really hits home lately. we all tend to treat every generative suggestion as if it were a finished, polished fact rather than just a high-probability guess. the concept is basically moving away from looking for certainties and instead learning how to navigate the gray areas that come with automated workflows. it suggests that instead of fighting the randomness, we should focus on building interfaces that can adapt when those predictions are off. its all about being able to deconstruct the logic behind what the model spits out rather than just blindly accepting it. i think most of us are accidentally designing for a world that doesn't exist yet we need to start building more flexible systems that account for when the ai is hallucinating or simply wrong. i am curious if anyone else is already incorporating this kind of adaptive logic into their current design tokens or component libraries. it feels like the next big shift in how we approach ux architecture. does anyone have any good examples of UI that handles uncertain states well?

article: https://smashingmagazine.com/2026/06/designing-uncertainty-how-ai-supercharges-probabilistic-thinking/

found this deep dive into how they're handling rendering architecture and custom tools for the new spring launch. it looks like a massive headache to maintain but i wonder if anyone here has actually used their custom tooling for a client project before?

article: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2026/06/26/engineering-the-web-experience-behind-shopifys-spring-26-edition-everywhere/

found this deep dive on how the team handled the design and dev for a better lou. it's pretty cool seeing how they used systematic changes to strip away the clutter and focus on clarity. i wonder if this level of content strategy is even possible for smaller client projects

found this here: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2026/06/16/designing-a-better-lou-reducing-cognitive-load-through-design-content-and-systems/

just saw a study showing that over half of us are already using ai, but it seems like those who can afford to experiment are pulling way ahead. it feels like theres a growing barrier to entry for freelancers who cant just mess around w/ new tools.
>the risk is too high for some. **are we accidentally creating a two-tier system for designers

found this here: https://www.creativebloq.com/ai/is-ai-creating-a-divide-among-creatives

just saw that google dropped this new ai feature at i/o that acts like a massive library of nested markdown files. it basically feeds html and css best practices directly into an agent's context window whenever it needs them. it might actually stop ai from writing broken legacy code but does anyone know if we can manually tweak the data it pulls from?

https://master.dev/blog/modern-web-guidance/

deciding btwn fluid scaling and using fixed font weights for body text feels like a lose-lose lately. does anyone actually prefer static sizing when the viewport is so unpredictable?