2025-11-24 23:52:06
Traditionally, I've been working sketch → design → code; but, I smell a trend towards capture → adapt → code. This post is a short thought piece of this exploratory workflow and its effects on prototyping and/or design.
VisBug could do this, I called it "lift and shift" in 2019. Lift the styles and HTML right from the page, and shift it into your project. Not suprised to see it massively streamlined with AI.
SuperDesign is an in IDE design tool that can capture live UI via an extension and continue from there. Streamlined lift and shift. With this, you can visit somewhere like Cosmos as an inspiration/asset library, shop around, then import or reference the inspo into your project. You can also use Mobbin as a UI-pattern library.
One helluva set of tools for curating, testing, lifting and shifting UI for prototyping and design. Hopefully this does more good than bad.
Capturing web UI via the extension and building from there, here’s how this workflow might go:
This essentially flips the sequence of our prior design workflows. Go straight to high quality examples, fork, adapt, iterate, and adopt.
You doing this? Do you want to do this?
Thoughts?
2025-11-24 12:58:55
Is it just me or are superellipsed pill shapes cool?
Check it out on Codepen and I know your next question is caniuse
2025-11-18 02:44:48
With a heavy heart, I've decided to pause my involvement in standards and speaking (except for CSS Day 2026). The past 6 years have been so rad (a privilege packed learning experience), but I've come to the realization that I need to simplify and focus on things closer to home.
Huge thanks to all the great people I've met along the way, those that have helped me, and those that have inspired me ❤️
TPAC 2025 was incredibly valuable and provided great clarity, as I was head over heels excited to attend and be a part of it (was my first time!); and while I found myself taking copious notes, and still very much interested in the outcomes and impacts, I was much less interested in participating. I wasn't finding the resolutions and conversations energizing like others were.
I was also feeling so much guilt for not being at home helping my family, being away for so long was super difficult. I'm hoping these changes will allow me to be more present and available for my family, offering a more sustainable work week that's better for both my fam and new employer.
My love for CSS & the web existed before my role at Google and involvement in standards, it'll always exist.
I'm certain I'll still be writing when excited. This is a refocus and admission / realization that I need to explore.
I'm super proud of the work I've done and the impact it's had. I could see myself getting back into it again one day (hence the "pause" verbiage), but I need to not fight the gravity that's pulling me away.
Tons of love to y'all; those in the community, those in standards, those reading this. Looking forward to the future. Looking forward to those who will step in and become their own advocates for the web.
2025-11-07 10:56:09
My talk Midi Meets CSS is done! Had a blast bein a high energy nerd on stage blastin banjo and beats from a K.O. II.
Marc, BTconf; you rock. Day 1 of the talks have been so inspiring. Stoked for day 2.
2025-10-31 22:48:48
I was on the General Musings show with Kevin Powell 🤘🏻💀
We chat front-end job hunting in 2025, the misalignments between the technical interviews and the roles they were looking to fill, the overall state of the industry and hiring processes and how to distinguish yourself from the crowd.
