Vol_10.27.25

We curate web design resources.

Gene Crawford
October 27, 2025

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News & Notes

Inattentional Blindness in Interfaces
Inattentional blindness is a phenomenon where we miss something that’s in plain sight because our attention is focused elsewhere. https://www.nngroup.com/videos/inattentional-blindness-in-interfaces/

When to Use Modal vs Dialog Components
Confused about modal vs dialog components? Discover implementation patterns, accessibility guidelines, and best practices for creating user-friendly interfaces.
https://www.a11y-collective.com/blog/modal-vs-dialog/

The CSS Reset, again
There is a lot of chatter about CSS resets in the web sphere recently. For the first time in years, I recently looked into the stylesheet of this very website and decided to modernise a few bits. As part of this, I looked into some resets carefully crafted by others, and wanted to share my thoughts, things I liked, and popular snippets that I’m going to stay away from.
https://pawelgrzybek.com/the-css-reset-again/

Maximizers vs. Focusers
https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-383-maximizers-vs-focusers

Writing alt text with AI
LLMs can lower the burden of writing useful alt text for images, with the right prompting. https://jaredcunha.com/blog/writing-alt-text-with-ai

You Still Need to Think https://calv.info/you-still-need-to-think

If print is not dead, who’s keeping it alive?
Shifting our focus from the designer or artist, and putting a spotlight on the printmakers and presses behind their projects, we spoke to some of the people crafting our tangible visual worlds about what the next generation of printmaking might look like… and if there is one.
https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/if-print-is-not-dead-whos-keeping-it-alive-creative-industry-141025